I wonder how the ESRB managed to miss the fact that you can kill people with a sexual object?
Quote Originally Posted by Big D
It's just a case of "I killed some guy and took his wallet", not "I killed a newlywed husband who was in his final year at medical school, and basically ruined the life of everyone who was close to him, including the people who saw him beaten to death in the street."
Well, that is the point. GTA has always been a simulator of what it's supposedly like being a criminal. Fast cars, fast women, adrenaline rush, living a consequence-free life. Criminals may worry about dying from time to time, but that doesn't stop them from being criminals. They don't turn themselves in. They don't ask for forgiveness.
GTA:SA presented a criminal who cared about his moms and his family. He just handled things the wrong way, his brother's way, the way they did growing up in a neighborhood filled with gang warfare and drugs. The effect this lifestyle had on his personality is revealed when he occasionally blurts out, "Call the army, I'm a m***f!!!**n' maniac!"

You know, I retract my earlier statements. As of this time, this era, the games are getting a little too adult to be rated 'M'. One day, 'AO' will be reserved for Maniac games: games in which you torture your enemies by slowly gutting them. Games where "consequence-free killing" includes running down small children with your car after a hard day at work. If we reserve the AO rating for games that are only the most outrageous or simply repugnant, we'll end up with games like that. Because although today there is question as to why any sane person would want to play games of that context, one day, that question may no longer be.