I agree. It's a guilty pleasure, but I have GTA 1 through San Andreas. If I had kids though, I'd hide these games like porn. My parents did their best to monitor what sort of entertainment I brought into the house, and I'd do the same.
me too...
depends on how old my kids were, if they were teens I might consider it, but I would reject it out of hand for anyone younger than about 15 or so....
there really is NOTHING in those games that these kids won't or wouldn't have seen in any movies, TV or school.
I watched violent movies all through my childhood in the 80s and 90s and I turned out just fine. But my parents illustrated the difference early and often too....