Grand Theft Auto 3- banned?( or is it eBay BS?) (1 Viewer)

[Bob Morgan]

Someone is selling GTA 3 on eBay saying that it is banned everywhere.

Seems like a whole load of you know what, but, I'm out of the loop and am trying to save up the money for a PS2 because of all the awesome reviews for GTA 3, MGS2,Soul Reaver 2 et al and need to know whether GTA 3 has, or will be banned.

Anyone like to give me some info?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Joel Mack]

They're full of it.

I can go to any store in town and buy one.

 

[Ike]

Who'd ban it?

And from the very fact that my copy is spinning in my PS2 right now, and almost every store in town has it, I'm going to go ahead and guess not.

And can I say, I'm just now beginning to realize the brilliance of the game! It's so sweet.

(Not to spoil it, but I'm up to the point where you get to Staunton Island. If you know where that is in the game, you know all the great events that lead up to that.)

 

[BrianB]

GTA3 is most definitely NOT banned in North America. eBay hype.

Who'd ban it?

Both Walmart & Woolworths refused to carry the first two games in the series. Brazil banned shops from selling GTA2 (as well as Duke Nukem 3D), and a Catholic family group in France successfully lobbied retailers into not stocking it, and that was after a specific French version without rewards for killing cops was made.

Walmart sneakily dropped their policy of not stocking violent games/games that reward violence against police and hapiily sell GTA3 now.

 

[Jens Raethel]

I buoght GTA 3 acouple of days ago, and it ROCKS!

Its really fun...

You must buy this game...

 

[Eric_C]

The ESRB tried to ban this game, but they have no power to pull the game from the store shelves. They even tried to get the software developer Rockstar games to edit the game but that won't happen either. All the ESRB is, is a rating board they can't do anything else when it comes to what is in the game.

 

[BrianB]

The ESRB tried to ban this game, but they have no power to pull the game from the store shelves. They even tried to get the software developer Rockstar games to edit the game but that won't happen either. All the ESRB is, is a rating board they can't do anything else when it comes to what is in the game.

Where'd you hear that nonsense? The ESRB can quite legally say "We will not give you x rating if you have y content in the game". Same with the BBFC in the UK.

And Rockstar is the publisher, DMA is the developer.