MetaFilter posts tagged with GrandTheftAuto

Grand Theft Auto IV graphical comparison with real life

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:13:54 -0800

Grand Theft Auto?

sir_rubixalot — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:44:58 -0800

In light of being criticized as being too violent, there is a new version of Grand Theft Auto VI coming out. Previews: Video - Video

Ron Howard's Directorial Debut

potch — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:59:52 -0800

The first Grand Theft Auto.

Grand Theft Delorean

jonson — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:56:49 -0800

Back To The Future, Hill Valley is a "from the ground up" conversion of the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, with the goal being to re-set the game in the world of Doc Brown, Marty McFly & Biff Tannen. Sample videos of the progress so far. Please note that Hoverboards don't work on water. Via.

Violence Begets Violence Begets Violence or: What the Hell is going on in Alabama?

the theory of revolution — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:12:44 -0800

Man Sentenced to Death in Alabama. but not just any old death sentence. This is the fellow who killed two cops and a police dispatcher, then blamed his actions on Grand Theft Auto, which is a popular video game. Alabama, the state whose residents fought so hard to keep the 10 commandments on display in a courthouse. Maybe they should have been allowed to display that monument, to remind them that murder is a crime - no matter how you dress it up.

Grand theft in progress?

mediareport — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:00:21 -0800

"What's most shocking about Grand Theft Auto isn't embedded sex scenes. It's the financial chicanery of the game's maker." Fortune's Bethany McLean - one of the few journalists to question Enron's stock price in early 2001 - has just taken a good look at Take Two Interactive, and she doesn't like what she sees. Four CEOs since 2002, execs dumping stock in recent months, fraudulent "parking transactions" that dramatically overstated earnings...and yet its stock price has remained bouyant. "How, in an era when investors are supposedly obsessed with corporate governance, are this firm's troubles so easily overlooked?"

Grand Theft Tendo

mathowie — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:20:51 -0800

GrandTheftTendo For those of you still rockin' the 8-bit NES, but want to play GTA III on it.

At least there's no topless stunt bikers

phyrewerx — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:36:19 -0800

Here's an article in the New York Post that initially looked like another bulletin on yet a new company being investigated by the SEC. But read the entire text. It has some very strong words to say against the gaming industry and particularly this game, calling it "10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy". Via Penny-Arcade, their reaction is really worth a read.

Grand Theft Auto video game

orange swan — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:36:00 -0800

Steal cars and kill prostitutes for points The fourth instalment of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game has become the fastest selling title of all time in the UK. In its first five days on the U.S. market, GTA:VC sold 1.4 million copies of Grand Theft Auto. Entertainment Weekly rated it No. 1 on its 10-best-game list for 2002. But unlike most video games, where the player represents a hero struggling against evil, Grand Theft Auto invites players to pose as a vicious criminal named Tommy Vercetti. Tommy earns money for his crimes, which include running over pedestrians, hiring and then murdering prostitutes, and killing other gangsters with guns, Uzis, swords and Molotov cocktails. Unsurprisingly, the game has its critics and protestors. Real life crimes have been linked to it. Well, MeFiers, is a society ever justified in banning something like this video game?