You will hear lots of bad words, threats, lies and so on, even to the extent that there will be swearing on public radio. Coked up people will act obviously coked up.
You will steal cars, as per the name of the game, and you will drive recklessly, and you will find almost no consequences for killing random people, and you will drive drunk. You will have the chance to pick up prostitutes. You will use guns, lots of guns, including tanks and helicopters with guns. Playing this game you will most certainly kill people of various races and genders, including innocent bystanders and police officers. If you're the sort of parent who wretches at the idea that your child could be exposed to any alcohol/violence/drugs/cursing/sexual references, why are you even here? Vice City is a gritty game that's caught all kinds of heck for being inappropriate, violent, etc.
Now, if you have the sort of well-behaved child who is full of self control and can watch Freddy and Jason movies without forgetting that games involving accidentally stabbing one another with pencils are inappropriate for school, you might start yours on this a little younger. I doubt we'll let him play any GTA until he's well into high school, lest we get calls from the principle saying he's playing a spirited game of drive-over-the-whore in the cafeteria. We let him play Terraria at around 8-9 and had to throttle back because he would rattle on endlessly about walls of flesh and eyes of Cthulhu at the bus stop in front of other parents. He does Fortnite dances everywhere and always starts Minecraft reenactments with friends and talks incessantly about whatever Mario or Zelda game he's playing. My 11yo is impulsive and copies anything he sees in a game. As a game, I give this a solid 5 stars.Īs far as age goes, you really need to know your own child and monitor accordingly. It's little things like that which make a good game great. The humor is one of the key values to this title I've literally just spent an hour or more with my character sitting in a car listening to the parody talk radio and ridiculous commercials. The graphics are a little dated with time, but the story and gameplay are quite solid, if you're into the Scarface/Godfather/Boardwalk Empire little-Mafia-nobody-works-his-way-to-kingpin story, and like open-world exploration games.
This was my first GTA, so perhaps I'm a little biased to say that this is one of if not the best in the series. I was in high school when the first GTA came out, and honestly it wasn't overly enticing.
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