Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Won't Be "Family Friendly"

That's according to Rockstar Games founder Dan Houser who tells Edge that Nintendo "didn’t want us to make a GTA for kids, and we weren’t interested in making a game we wouldn’t normally make." Houser describes Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS as "almost like a GTA version of a classic arcade game." Go on...

"I mean, GTA is about stealing cars and shooting people – how could it not be an 18 rating?" he adds. The DS game's flamethrower and, more importantly, the drug dealing mini-games (pictured), will certainly garner some attention from those concerned that a cel-shaded crime spree will corrupt our global youth.

Chinatown Wars may not have been what you were expecting, what with its tattooing touchscreen challenges and carjacking mini-games, but it certainly looks interesting. And, if we can be so bold, pretty good for a 3D Nintendo DS release. Whether it will find enough of an audience for more stylus controlled massacres, given its mature bent, we look forward to figuring out.

http://kotaku.com/5066761/grand-thef...amily-friendly

Hurr. Who honestly thought it WOULD be family friendly?
Not me.

Yeah, I can't tell Barney and Teletubbies apart from Grand Theft Auto.

(Even though Teletubbies still screws up your kid worse than any violence could ever do)

why would you ever want to make a gta game family friendly?
lol.

it doesnt seem right at all if that were to happen.