Suit seeks to ban sales of popular video game

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Suit seeks to ban sales of popular video game


Suit seeks to ban sales of popular video game

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) --A lawsuit by Haitian groups that asks for the top-selling video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" to be removed from store shelves will be decided in federal court.

Haitian civil rights groups filed the lawsuit because the game instructs players to "kill the Haitians" and awards points for each kill.

The suit was filed December 23 in state circuit court in Palm Beach County. Attorneys for Rockstar Games Inc. opted to move the case to federal court, and that motion was granted Tuesday. No hearing dates were immediately set.

New York-based Rockstar Games has agreed to remove the offensive line from future versions of the award-winning video game that has sold 11 million copies.

But the Haitian organizations, led by the Haitian-American Coalition of Palm Beach County, have also asked for more than $15,000 in damages.

The lawsuit takes on heavyweights in the video game industry, including Rockstar Games, its parent company Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment, the Microsoft Corp., and retailers Target, Wal-Mart and Best Buy.

The manufacturer of the game, in which an ex-convict is hired to recover stolen drug money in the streets of Miami, has been harshly criticized for its portrayal of Haitians.

Earlier this month, about 100 Haitian-Americans demonstrated outside a Wal-Mart Supercenter in nearby Boynton Beach chanting, "Stop Vice City."

Attorneys for the Haitian organizations and the video game manufacturer did not return phone calls late Wednesday.

Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.

Do you think that this is carrying the political correctness a little to far or do you think the plaintiffs are justified in their lawsuit?

[ch0g0nda]

wow look another money grab lawsuit.

Sorry but the anti-hiatian content in that game is there. But to really it plays such a small part in the game that there's no reason for real life hiatian's to get their panty's in a bunch.

[RicorN]

This is just silly.
It seems like people sue eachother like an everyday thing "over there"
You rarely hear about lawsuits here.


Sure you kill haitians in the game, but you kill white people, black people, cuban people, people in cars, people on bikes and old ladies too.

So the next time i see a game where you kill a white male under 20, i'll be able to sue the company that made the game?

Give it up, its just a game ffs!

[thephenom]

Originally posted by ch0g0nda
wow look another money grab lawsuit.

Sorry but the anti-hiatian content in that game is there. But to really it plays such a small part in the game that there's no reason for real life hiatian's to get their panty's in a bunch.
I only remember them shooting at me when I drive by..... so does that mean Haitian are anti-Tommy Vercetti?

[splashtech]

Yup..... quick, find people with the name tommy, and vercetti. They can all sue too. In fact, hell, they are anti-player. All the players of the game should sue too......

..as you can see, I am being silly, just like this case. :D

[residentevil3]

I say go ahead take it off the shelvs, the game sucks anyway .

[KaNaDiAnIcEmAn]

video games should have no rights

as, its just a game, no harm should be done, if you do harm anyone because the video game "said" it was alright, then you need to get help because u cannot determine, the fake world, and the real world "see The Matrix"


really sad when people are not educated on the basis of video games, and that no one really hates a certain race/religion/persons, its just the way society sometimes sees others and can relate and make a bond to, relieve, themselves


hopefuly no one goes out killing Haitian's cause then we will have a whole new problem on our hands


:surrender

[splashtech]

Originally posted by residentevil3
I say go ahead take it off the shelvs, the game sucks anyway .

WTF? It rocks!

And anyway, even if you don't like it, it is no reason to allow it to be banned. Do you have any idea what you just said? Basically, you hjave just said that you would prevent anyone having it simply becuase you don't like it.

Selfish attitude... oh dear.. :Nope

[residentevil3]

Im not selfish i just dont care if they take the game off

[residentevil3]

I like games that have good graphics and fun to play, this game the graphics were really oudated so i didnt even bother buying the game after i tried it at friends, even then i still thought the game was boring..

[thephenom]

I personally liked that game, I think I spent a few weeks playing it. Maybe I should reinstall and play again.:devil

[ch0g0nda]

I got a few months of play out of this game.

Apparantly RE3 never discovered the mods :p

[SNAFU]

I have it for PS2 and I absolutely LOVE the game! I love the radio stations! They are so funny! Especially the chat stations!:spin

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SNAFU
I have it for PS2 and I absolutely LOVE the game! I love the radio stations! They are so funny! Especially the chat stations!:spin
K-Chat!!! :thumb

[XxFaeryOnFirexX]

lol... it was banned one other time for some reason or another.

this is really annoying.