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Vice City is the best demonstration so far that video games have come of age. As an interactive medium, one built around freedom of choice, video games are actually well suited to teach us about right and wrong. Tommy Vercetti is free to hijack that bus, but he must be prepared to live with the consequences, which may include being thrown in jail by Vice City's finest. Vercetti is equally free to give up his life of crime and become a taxi driver or a fireman or deliver pizzas for a living...
...Tommy Vercetti has a problem: he's trying to hijack a city bus, but the bus won't move. He has kicked the driver out onto the street. He's even softened him up with a baseball bat. But Vercetti didn't do a good job of parking his car before he got on the bus, and it's blocking the street. Traffic is backed up halfway down the block, and there's nowhere to drive the bus. Before this busjacking thing goes any further, he's going to have to park his car properly like anybody else...
Fortunately for us, Vercetti isn't a real person. He's a character in Vice City, the sequel to Grand Theft Auto III, the $50 video game that sold 7million copies in the past year on its way to becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation2 game ever. It's not the violence that moves all those units. Thousands of games out there shed more blood and make less money. When Vice City is released on Oct. 29, it will freak out millions of parents and sell millions of copies, but it will also force us to realize that video games aren...
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