Jack Thompson Not Happy With GTA IV

Just when you thought the gaming industry’s most hated person (after Uwe Boll) would let life go peacefully for Take Two, Rockstar, and the entire gaming fraternity, he comes out of nowhere, guns et al blazing, to deliver a message once again to the makers of Grand Theft Auto IV. Only this time he’s not irked by gratuitous violence or wanton sex; it’s his depiction in GTA IV that has his panties in a wad.

As usual he wants Take Two to make amends to certain parts of the game or he’ll try to block the game’s release and so on. Here’s part of the letter he sent to Take Two’s Chairman Strauss Zelnick:

The showcasing play of the game to Game Informer revealed that the first killing mission of the 'hero' of the game, Niko, is to kill a certain lawyer. When Niko comes into this lawyer’s office, having used subterfuge to do so, Niko pulls a gun on the lawyer, who says that "the firm supports the second amendment and that 'Guns don’t kill people. Video games do'.

"The fact that the lawyer, killed in Niko’s first mission, would bring up video games, makes it clearly a reference to me. This is not the first time Rockstar Games and Take Two have targeted me in this fashion. Take Two references to me as a bisexual pedophile on its corporate website.

"You have until five p.m. this Friday… to inform me that you're going to delete the above references and any other references that could reasonably be construed to be references to me in Grand Theft Auto IV and any other video games that are pending release.

"Now you have descended this low – using one of your games to threaten my physical safety – failure to comply with the deadline will result in my having to take necessary and proper means to stop release of the game which targets me personally… given the copycatting of violent games…

Seriously, this dude needs to just chill the f**k out!