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Dan Houser, the British-born developer of "Grand Theft Auto," thinks of the video game as a satirical look at American culture. Regulatory bodies around the world just find it violent.
Niko Bellic, the player's alter ego in Grand Theft Auto IV...
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... wanders as a stranger through a caricature of New York called "Liberty City."
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of the more recent officials to complain about the violent video game: He thinks the scenes in the new edition are too realistic.
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But the feel of the game, says Dan Houser, is more like a gangster novel. Or a noir comic book?
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But this version of the city is a kind of hell...
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... where the hero gets points for killing both criminals and cops.
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