This is why parents should talk to their under 17 years of age kids about the games they allow them to play that are mature rated. Not all kids are smart and are able to tell the difference between real and fiction when it comes to video games. Especially since there are people in the world who are just like characters from GTA. Kids think to themselves "Well everyone else is doing it so I'm going to avoid all common sense and try it" or "This game is so awesome, I must try this in real life. Whats the worst that can happen?" Parents just blindly buy their kids these games and don't bother actually talking about how the things in the game can turn out if it were real life.

When I bought Black Ops, the guy knew I was underage and scanned his coworkers ID instead:) It's not hard to get away with that stuff!

GTF yeeaaaaaa!!!!

He's 14 years old. By that age he should know better. If he was 4, alright, but 14? Everyone blaming the videogames on that has no idea. Those games consider that, by a certain age, our brain already has the function to seperate between reality and fantasy appropiatly and not putting it on the same level. Your son is definately NOT able to, so I assume you have a job to do there, or he's ending up doning...I don't even know all the possibilities, GTA alone has many of those, leave alone other games or movies, books, or simply stuff he heard about. I can't decide wether this is your fault, for having been unable to teach the kid his lessons or wether it's a FYL because you have to go to your teenage kid, teaching him the lessons of a 3-year-old.

He'd lose badly lol

Wow. I actually played this game last year when I was 14 too (the one with Niko Bellic, I think it was IV) anyways, it made me want to become a New York city cop. I started studying criminal law, criminal justice, politics, criminal history, famous criminals etc... I can now also relate To New York because GTA gave a very informative layout of the NY parts (EX:Hove beach=Brighton Beach, Russian Mafia HQ) I didn't know that before. So I learned GOOD stuff from the game also. You wouldn't believe how many laws I learned (Grand Larceny, Racketeering, etc) all because crime was the focal point. And when people say,"It's the video game's fault!" That's the equivalent of saying it's McDonald's fault because you're obese. It's the kid's fault for being impressional off such an unrealistic just like it's the person's fault for eating McDonald's all of the time and becoming overweight.

MA 15+ is for Australia

Wow. Just wow! Hahaha.

Why'd you give him a game like GTA then?

has anyone else picked up on the fact her 14 yr old son was drunk!!! u day she is a bad mum for letting him play a video game what about allowing him to be drunk at 14!!!!!!!