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Thread ID: 11708 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-01-02
2004-01-02 20:54 | User Profile
[B]'Kill the Haitians' game in the dock [/B]
A US federal court is about to decide whether a popular video game in which the players can kick a prostitute to death and get extra points for killing Haitians should be removed from the shelves.
Haitian civil rights groups brought the case to get the game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, taken out of circulation because it instructs players to "Kill the Haitians". Rockstar Games, the New York company which has sold 11-million copies of the award-winning video, in which an ex-convict is hired to recover stolen drug money in Miami, agreed to remove the line from future versions. Unimpressed, the Haitians took the makers to the state circuit court last week. On Tuesday, it was agreed to move the case to the federal court.
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