U.K. Not Scared Of Vice City Stories

Via Kotaku

While U.S. cities are pulling Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories ads from their public transportation systems, other countries seem to have no problem with it. In the U.K., where Bully was made to change it's name and Rule of Rose's release was canceled due to media outcry, GTA is apparently A-OK. So ok, in fact, that instead of the regular on bus posters, they have decided to plaster the GTA:VCS ad on to the entire back of a bus.

Ok, kids, just so you know, bullying is wrong! Being mean to other children and torturing them is wrong! But hey, would you mind going over there and jacking that car? Don't forget to kill the driver! Oh, and while your at it, go have sex with that hooker.

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10 points to who guesses what city that Pic is from :)

Erm.. Nottingham?

The US is incredibly contradictory with their crap. You can't advertise violent video games, but judges can let pedophiles go free after 3 months of good behavior in prison. Hmmm..... Don't know what's worse, ads for a gory/violent game or a child predator that is free to go after subjecting 7 children to incredibly gross and very disgusting acts.

Seems like we have our (as a country) values backwards sometimes (all the time).

Manchester?

edinburgh?

Bristol

Guncrime City

Its London, England

The USA has its fair share of hypocrisy when it comes to this stuff also and I guess we are not alone.

It could also be seeds planted intentionally by the game developers to stir controversy as controversy almost always increases sales.

lol thats cool i;ve never seen a bus with a video game advertisement in my life!

Nice bit of artwork. How do they do that to buses?

leeds ??

Looks better than the old GTA 2 I think it was ad, a banner reading 'Steal this game'

you need to consider that bullying is a real everyday fact of life in UK. Where as Car Jacking is not. We have a no guns law here so Gun crime accounts for less than 1% of violent crime. We don't need to worry that UK kids will nip outside and "emulate" their fav computer game.

And the hookers thing, well someone needs to support a vaulable part of our economy! Ahem... :D

It does seem a bit backwards sometimes, like changing the game name "Bully" to "Canis Canem Edit", changing the name doesnt change the content of the game itself, so the name change has accomplished nothing.

I have also heard the euro release of GTA:VCS is less gory (or something) than the US release, which I also think is stupid, you removed some blood here and there, it doesnt change the fact you are still killing people in it.

The people "supposed" to be buying the games like this are "supposed" to be of an age they can make there own decisions (18+) so why change the games at all?

As for the advertisments, aslong as the adverts dont depict anything abusive or that people below the age of the target audience shouldnt see, then I dont see a problem with them, its the minority ruining it for the majority as usual.

(rant over :p )

Is it Pompey ???

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I have also heard the euro release of GTA:VCS is less gory (or something) than the US release)

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Thats true of the German version but the rest of Europe was unaffected.

The US are a bunch of hypocrites. They will invade any country at will and bomb innocent civilians but are concerned about video games. Anyway kids can watch the same stuff on prime television each night or better yet just watch the evening news and see war and murder nightly. They need to get their heads out of their butts.

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Originally Posted by nhlhockey

The US are a bunch of hypocrites. They will invade any country at will and bomb innocent civilians but are concerned about video games. Anyway kids can watch the same stuff on prime television each night or better yet just watch the evening news and see war and murder nightly. They need to get their heads out of their butts.

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That and the fact that porn is more easily accessible than "Mature" video games. That's truly funny.