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Listed below are comments made by Liam_Lock between Tuesday, 29th April 2008 and Tuesday, 29th April 2008.

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Grand Theft Auto steals the show 2:42pm on 29 Apr 2008 I owned my first Grand Theft Auto game on Sony's Playstation One in 1998.
I was under-age by a long shot, and i am still glad i got to play it at an early age.
Playing these sorts of games from such an early age (10), gave me a headstart on the majority of my fellow students at school into the gaming world, which i was quickly absorbed into.
I purchased GTA IV on Microsoft's Xbox 360 system, and i'm posting this while i allow it to cool a while (Don't want the red ring of death now, do i?). I completely believe that with the release of this game, we have entered a new world of gaming.
I believe we will no longer see "level" based games, instead i believe the majority of future released games will be Sandbox, or open-ended.
Grand Theft Auto was the first true Sandbox game, and it has inspired plenty of others such as;
Elder Scrolls - Morrowind (game of the year) and Oblivion
Saints Row
Mafia
True Crime

However, now i look at the list, it is clearly apparent that the majority of Sandbox games are almost rip-offs of GTA and the series.

But i believe in the future, the majority of games will be open-ended, with the only exception being Sports games.

And as for the game being a masterpiece, they are spot on.
After playing the game for six hours, i can clearly see that this will, perhaps is as we speak, be recognised as the greatest game of all time.

I for one, truly hope it comes to pc, so that modifiers can create add-ons for the game to add hours of enjoyment to the game for me.
GTA - the outrage fades 1:59pm on 29 Apr 2008 It seems to me, that the shouts of accusations from opposers to the series, have only been quietened due to the lack of Jack Thompson's (John Bruce Thompson) interference.
As you may or may not know, he has signed an agreement with Take-Two interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games, so that he will not attempt to get the game banned from sales in the United States.
When he was attempting to get Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas banned from sale, there was only a matter of days before English opposers made themselves known also, so perhaps with this agreement, we may see a decline in the amount of complaints we hear about Grand Theft Auto.

Also, we must remember, it is not only the Grand theft auto series that people wish to be banned. We have already seen ManHunt 2, what i suppose you could call GTA's sister game, banned several times, and only now do we finally see it released.
Other games that these opposers wish to be banned, and often for, in my opinion, daft and unproved reasons include;
"Scrabble - A TOOL OF THE DEVIL?"(http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=10249)
"HALO III: RECRUITING MUSLIMS AND PAGANS"(http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=6484)

If you go to those links, you can see that these people are in no position to comment on Grand Theft Auto.

Of course, there are more examples, lots on that website alone, but we must look at the bigger picture surrounding the controversy of Grand Theft Auto.

How can these opposers compare three dimensional moving images, to movies, in which you can visibly see gore, that in some cases appear very real.

I think it's time they lay off the games and find a new passtime.

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