Horizon's look at violence in gaming was a balanced take on a stale debate

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The BBC's Make It Digital season stumbled out of the blocks with The Gamechangers, the muddled docudrama about Rockstar and Grand Theft Auto, and one of the most frustrating elements of the film was the way it fumbled the question of violence in games.
The Gamechangers framed much of its story as a clash between Rockstar's desire to create ambitious adult entertainment, and lawyer Jack Thompson's censorious crusade against violence in games, yet it never touched upon GTA's satirical nature or storylines.
On the few occasions where you did see someone actually playing the game, they were running around randomly shooting civilians - an activity that is certainly part of GTA, but not the aim of the game. The impression given was that Rockstar's high-faluting artistic integrity was ultimately the pursuit of nothing more noble than blood-soaked rampages and digital blowjobs.
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