Dammit! That’s okay I guess, yay for games making a huge assload of cash. $500 million in the first week and 3.2 million copies sold on the first day. Awesome for Take-Two and the industry in general, but what will the numbers look like next month? Word of mouth on GTA IV has been nothing but fantastic and it’s the game of the summer in many ways, but we’ll see if that translates to even more super buckets of dollars. It would be nice. I want games to sell gazillions of copies so that we can have more games as good as GTA IV as the norm and not the record breaking every once in a whiles they have been in the past.

Congratulations Take-Two Interactive!

Well, the fine folks here at Angry Robot may well be insane. This week, and I can not remember who’s brilliant plan it was (not mine), we decided to play through all of the Grand Theft Auto Games as a lead up to the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. I don’t want to go into details because we will go into details about it later in the fashion of the Halo Marathon.

Clearly we are suckers for punishment.

Strangely enough, I am not sick of them. In fact, this has only reminded me of how much I love the games and has made me want to run home and play them… right now! I love San Andreas… I Love BMXing, I Love hanging with my homies (regardless of the fact that if I used that term out side of the digital-world I would have my skinny ass handed to me on a silver platter), I love Cruising the San Andreas countryside on a motorbike, I love flying planes and crashing trains…

I don’t like the dating mini-games… but whatever.

To those who believe that these games instill violence I scoff at you and highly recommend that you go back under your rock and rot and not buy the games for your kids instead of bitching about it and making your kids want to play it more by reminding them of it’s taboo. When I play the GTA (NAMBLA) games I come off more mellow than I could ever wish for. It’s like a cool beer after a long hot day… complete and utter satisfaction.

Don’t Harsh my mellow… or my Mane…