PRESS | MADD Over Drunk Driving in GTA4

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May 3, 2008

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MADD Over Drunk Driving in GTA4

GamePolitics.com has posted a statement from MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) who are upset with the virtual drunk driving that was included in GTA4 (Grand Theft Auto). They are calling for ESRB to re-rate the popular game as Adults Only (well good luck with that). No seriously, drunk driving is a very serious issue, but since Carmageddon didn’t produce a generation of road-raging-serial-killers, it’s hard to imagine that kids will take on the role of Nico. It’s all good, clean sober (most of the time) fun.

Each year nearly 13,500 people die in drunk driving crashes and another half a million are injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes. This is why MADD is extremely disappointed by the decision of the manufacturers of the game Grand Theft Auto IV to include a game module where players have to drive drunk.

Drunk driving is not a game and it is not a joke. Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable. MADD is calling on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board to reclassify Grand Theft Auto IV as an Adults Only game, a step up from the current rating of Mature and for the manufacturer to consider a stop in distribution – if not out of responsibility to society then out of respect for the millions of victims/survivors of drunk driving.

PRESS RELEASE (Source: MADD via GamePolitics.com)

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