Impressionable.

So. Video games cause violence in young teenagers.

I was having that kind of trouble too as i was sitting in the car today. GTA 4 allowed me to drive and crash and not have any serious consequences because i can simply hijack another car or sleep to recover the health. It forces me to shoot that 'rat' in the head because he was fooling around with my cousin's girl cos' if i don't shoot him, i don't progress in the game. It's a dog eat dog world because if i don't shoot those bastards shooting me, i would get killed. It makes me want to go into a hospital and point the shotgun at the nurse just simply because i want to see her reaction. It makes me want to fight the police because i know i am capable of unwitting them.

Yes the game has came under a lot of flak. Most notably from Jack Thompson and MADD society. Yes i did go drinking in the game. And i got damn drunk. It was very realistic with the whole camera shaking and blurry. But i still got into the car. I wanted to test how well i can get back home while intoxicated.

Well ... i think the producers have done enough to let people make their own choices. It has a mature rating, and i guess we should all be aware of our own actions in the REAL world. It was said in the game that "i" aka Niko Bellic is advised to take a cab (yes we can whistle and take a cab) home if we are drunk, and we are not advised to drive when drunk.

There was another scene when I was chasing after some guy who didn't pay up and he ran till he fell off the roof. I was given the option to either kick him off or save him. I thought that was a pretty neat move.

It's all about making your own choices.

Anyway, what i love about the game is the comedy of it. After i killed the guy, i started telling part of my life story to my cousin (with the dead guy still lying a few feet from us) ... about why i came to Liberty City and stories of army. And the killer line was ... "Do you always get sentimental after you kill someone?"
There was once when i took a wrong turn and it was a narrow one way road up into the expressway. So i got lazy and got off the car, jumped off the side onto a roof cos there was a building next to the highway. And then i couldn't get down because the roof access door was locked. So i just jumped off the roof. Luckily i had enough life to survive that fall.
I was in a car chase with this guy i was supposed to kill. The first time i didn't quite get him and he got away. But the second time he was kind of jammed up at the gantry gate, and i crashed into his car and i don't know what happened, the gate came down and his car flipped. Got off and finished him off. It was damn lucky else he would have got away again.

And how ALL of the characters in the game are nutheads. Always shouting, spewing vulgarities, always killing, always angsty.

Good game to play when the world's too peaceful and normal for your liking.