Recently rockstar games released their new Grand Theft Auto IV, but while a majority of people think it’s just a game there are also those that think it could possibly lead to crimes acted out in the game for real. Personally I am against any game that involves crimes of this sort and prefer to stick to silly little platform games like Bandicoot, Rayman and maybe the occasional swing of Laura Croft. Do games such as Grand Theft or  Hitman actually encourage youngsters to want to do it for real or is it just escapism.

In the past it has been known that students have had shoot outs in schools, and certain  types of music they listened to was blamed, driving them to commit such a dreadful crime. It will only be a matter of time before games such as Grand Theft Auto get blamed for something. In my opinion there are too many gun crimes, drive-by shootings and violent acts for real, without having to play out dodgy fantasies on games, What next ? games where you can be a suicide bomber. 

In my household I make sure my stepsons play games that are appropriate for their age, but unfortunately their own mother doesn’t seem to understand the age restrictions on the games she allows the boys to play, bearing in mind they are only five and nine she  allows them to play Grand Theft already, only last week the eldest of the boys saw the advert on TV and said to us his mother is going to get the game, that’s when I told them that they knew the rules here.

The day the new game came out on sale, people queuing to buy the game were asked what they were buying and who for, in one case a middle aged woman told the reporters she was buying for her thirteen year old grandson, when asked what game, she replied the new Grand Theft, What point is there of putting age restrictions on games if adults are only going to buy it for the young ones anyway, who is held responsible then if their child breaks rules as they get older when the adults themselves are breaking the rules.

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