{"id":400,"date":"2002-11-14T22:06:16","date_gmt":"2002-11-14T22:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-400.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"grand-theft-auto-iii-vice-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/14\/grand-theft-auto-iii-vice-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto III: Vice City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t got all the way through GTAIII yet, but already Vice City is looking enormously appealing.  And apparently the rest of the British game-buying public thinks so, too:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news.php?id=21973\"><em>300,000<\/em> units shifted in Britain alone<\/a> when it was released last weekend.  Amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/archive\/2002_11_01_archive.html#85662598\">David Weinberger has some interesting things to say<\/a> about the game, and the morally dubious world it allows you to enter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why is it that I find the computer game BlackHawk Down reprehensible but I&#8217;m ok with Grand Theft Auto 3 (GTA3)? In BlackHawk Down, you&#8217;re a righteous American soldier fighting local warlords who are starving their own people. In GTA3, you&#8217;re a hoodlum who succeeds by randomly killing innocent pedestrians and taking their money. Also, you hijack cars, kill policemen, and blow stuff up. Why do I have my moral polarity reversed when it comes to these two games?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t got all the way through GTAIII yet, but already Vice City is looking enormously appealing.  And apparently the rest of the British game-buying public thinks so, too:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news.php?id=21973\"><em>300,000<\/em> units shifted in Britain alone<\/a> when it was released last weekend.  Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}