Wow. Aside from this writer's grammatical errors, that guy and I have nothing in common. I mean, really, you got a guy who listens to Neil Diamond to EVER review a game like GTA?

Let's begin at the beginning. I haven't played the game yet, but I have played every incarnation of GTA before it. And I eagerly anticipate this version (once it comes to PC where it can be properly enjoyed). But it isn't for it's social commentary, oh Sweet dread locked Jesus no! Gta, since the beginning has been about one thing for me, and I'm certain, many others. It is about ramming a baseball bat up to the hilt in your boss's'es'ess'ses' ( I give up) ass.

The first GTA let us do something we would never do, well I personally, but we is everyone I know, and that is car jack. Don't get me wrong, I could, I understand, if I really wanted to, but I don't. I like people. I think most of them are cool, funny, or both, most so when they don't know they are either. But, GTA let's me pummel these Every or Anymans senselessly, just like it seems that John Q nobody takes a dump on me once a day. Wait wait..I see what you are doing..loring me towards social commentary. Well it isn't going to happen.

No, So GTA let's me perform the senseless violence I wouldn't actually do. It's escape, release, therapy that beats beating the crap out of a puppet with "DAD" written on it.

So why am I so entranced by the latest resurrection? Easy. What else can I do? See, I'm less and less angry at John and Jane Q public, and more and more I'm angry at the bus driver who definitely saw me and didn't stop, the guy at Grubway who has to charge me double for my double meat because I have two different meats on a foot long (Dude, it's on the damn board), and the waitress who is giving me attitude for informing her that scrambled eggs taking thirty minutes should be an arrestable offense. So, when I could go into each of these establishments with my golf club, chainsaw, or the sweet ole' Louis V and sort things out I DO feel better, even if their digital facsimile looks more than like Donkey Kong than the genuine McCoy (what makes this guy so genuine, I wish I knew.)

So back to my main premise, Why am I so interested in GTA 4? Well, what else can i do? Can I get revenge on everyone who could, should , and ever will deserve it here. Can I find someone so close to my boss that I can see the bad breath oozing out of him, and then back over him repeatedly screaming, "Is that Proactive enough...is it!? Can I find a TGI Fatty's and then scream at the on scream conflagration I made, "Are French fries the same as steamed vegetables...no no they aren't now are they!"

Am I sick. Naw, no more than anyone else who goes through a 24 hour period without seeing another person whose first name I know, except the people at work, whom I wish I didn't know. Oh course we have this much resentment.

Why am I waiting for GTA 4? So I can make a girlfriend without pissing mine off. So I can beat the ever loving badness out of someone who looks like my my brother -in-law, so I can tell my boss how I feel about him, in a way only a bat could possible do.

Fine, say I'm a sicko. I know I'll never do anything to deserve your scorn other than say what's on my mind, but I know that this game pushes the edge of what is possible, not in good taste, and as it expands in each rendition to include every impulse that I have ever had, it will sate my sick dreams , without involving any non polygon rendered police.

The uninitiated will say that no good can come from depicting this kind of violence, but I know the truth. This game is the greatest possible barrier between me really running a muck....that and possibly finding a better boss. Please email me with job offers immediately.

And let the countdown continue.

Absolutely hammered. Apologize for the errors, but then again, I'm not getting paid for this, am I original paid copy writer who doesn't check his work?

I have only one thing to say to your commentary................AMEN­! People need to realize that a game is a game. GTA IV is everything you are anticipating it to be. Let the bat gripping begin.......

I don't work for the site (or even post at it very often) but you might find it interesting to read comments about the game in the forums over at the game 'zine site Escapist.
The people there are all true "gamers" but vary in their personal traits otherwise (someone liking Neil Diamond wouldn't surprise me at all), so some see GTA as a social commentary, some see it as purely a way to blow some time, and some see it in both lights as a game that also offers the depth of social commentary.

One thing that it has been interesting to see over there is that there seems to be no clear pattern to people's need for aggressive release like you're posting about. Most people enjoy having the release regardless of age/gender/nationality, but the number that feel they really need it are as rare as the ones that have no interest whatsoever in it. I usually wonder what those "needing" release think they would've done if born pre-games, since people back then weren't blowing up at one another. Then again, maybe they didn't have the same frustrations or were in a better place to change their lives and escape them.

"One thing that it has been interesting to see over there is that there seems to be no clear pattern to people's need for aggressive release like you're posting about. Most people enjoy having the release regardless of age/gender/nationality, but the number that feel they really need it are as rare as the ones that have no interest whatsoever in it. I usually wonder what those "needing" release think they would've done if born pre-games, since people back then weren't blowing up at one another. Then again, maybe they didn't have the same frustrations or were in a better place to change their lives and escape them."

My grandmother was the sweetest even-tempered woman I've ever known. Never a raised voice or a cross word, although she got her point across. She continued to make her own bread until very late in life. When I asked her why she said she liked 'to work it, knead it'. I tried it myself and I think now I know why. You can pound the living snot out of it (without people wondering why you're banging something so hard), it's constructive, and when you're done you feel at peace...not to mention the end result ofcourse...

It's different than a sock puppet, but hey it really works.

you could get off your ass, quit felling sorry for yourself and do something constructive. nah! that'd take too much work. it's easier to live vicariously through some stupid game and then complain about how everyone stick it to you. working to attain the wealth and power you want would cut into your time feeling sorry for yourself.

what time does springer come on?

playing a video game doesn't mean you haven't done anything with yourself. It's a leisure activity like anything else. If you don't enjoy it, don't play it. And by the way, all the people trying to mock video game playing are just dating themselves. And by that I mean, you are too fucking old to be involved in this discussion... looking at you chang

'playing a video game doesn't mean you haven't done anything with yourself. It's a leisure activity like anything else. If you don't enjoy it, don't play it. And by the way, all the people trying to mock video game playing are just dating themselves. And by that I mean, you are too fucking old to be involved in this discussion... looking at you chang'

very well. you may continue your navel gazing. just don't come crying to me later about how unfair life is when someone has more than you.

somehow i don't think you will live up to that.