What I want to know is where did the JCWI get their copy of the game from prior to release?

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Apologies if I've offended anyone with that question....

No bodies suggesting the game is playing to stereotypes. Was the storyline in Eastern Promises based on stereotypes? Further ill informed and misguided criticism from those that should really be doing more constructive things with their time.

Does anyone else see the irony of a gamer telling anyone to 'be doing more constructive things with their time'?

You can see why so many games have aliens as the baddies. At least it gets all the potential oppressed victims off your back. Women, non whites, members of any religion, labour cabinet ministers etc.

Problem is what happens if aliens turn up and they start getting royally p****ed with stereotypes and start complaining.

Who we gonna shoot then?

The Die Hard films portrayed German people as baddies, but you don't hear anyone moaning about that!

We are not all as stupid as the JCWI make us out to be and I think that we can tell the difference between computer game stereotypes and reality thank you very much.

If I remember right, the black lobby didn't get in a fuss over the use of a black protagonist in San Andreas... or did they? I can understand the concerns but it is still a little bit reactionary.

I assume these people were also concerned about the recent Borat 'documentry'...

I think it's unfair for them to be suggesting that there is in no way a possibility that a Balkan would get involved in crime. Surely statistically there are a few involved in criminal activity. You can't categorically state that any percentage of any ethnicity isn't involved in crime. I mean, we have a term "illegal immigrants". Surely THAT says something?!
And depending how far into things you look, are they therefore suggesting that seeing as Eastern Europeans aren't involved in any crime at all that all the criminals in New York are US citizens? How far is this supposed to go?! Black people have traditionally got a hard time so don't go calling them criminals even if they are? White guys have had it pretty easy so let's blame every single one of them?! You gotta blame someone...

I did think this was a rubbish story but after play my copy from Game ive found a cheat that lets you kill and eat a swan! first they take all the jobs now we cant even play a game! LOL

The cheat is circle circle on the D pad then A,B,C keys

No one can deny that things like the Russian Mafia, credit card fraud, cheap labour for prostitution have all recently been stories in the news about people from Eastern Europe.

But then, before this current wave was a focus on other 'groups'; Jamaicans with drugs, Italians for Mafiosi, Arabs as terrorists etc.

GTA is just simply reflecting extremes of life, nothing more. That's not to say ALL people from these ethnic backgrounds are criminals, prostitutes etc. But you can't base a GTA game on a guy from Poland who moves over to London, becomes a brick-layer and sends money home to his family. GTA is based on extremes of life and criminals and characters caught up in the violence.

It is one sided but that's just how the game is...It's not about a nice picnic in Central Park on a Sunday with the wife and children, afterall.

Well that settles it I'm packing up the kids and moving to eastern Europe, apparently its a crime free utopia. If an immigrant is playing the game do you think they just have Niko walk around buying hats?

The truth hurts eh?

Bloody annoys this, as these hippie-vegan-tree-hugging-PC brigade companies are usually funded by us tax-payers and fuel our Nanny State.

So, if only one Eastern European out of all the otherGTA protagonists is involved in crime - surely that goes against the 'stereotype' that is being suggested? I'd say that's pretty good really. It's more offensive they made him look like a caveman if you ask me.

Someone should tell the JCWI that we don't actually give a damn what they like or dislike.

Fact is, immigrants, European or otherwise are involved in crime, you only have to watch the news.

Perhaps as a service, the JCWI can arrange plane tickets for all the immigrants, to takethem all back to their "safer" countries, away from all this crime. Then we can have all the jobs, houses and benefits back that these "law abiding" people are taking off the people who should be entitled to them.

Why is it that if you use anything other than white caucasian as a character in a game with some violence or anything else slightly controversial somebody gets up in arms about it. Please get a grip on reality. In real life it doesn't matter what colour or race you are. Their race or life situation aside, there are and always will be people in the world who are criminals etc. Go and write about something we haven't heard over and over again please...........