With a record-setting three-day haul of over $1 billion in sales on launch week, Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto V has put violent games on the front burner of mainstream media once again. Despite the violent nature of shooters like Call of Duty: Ghosts, Gears of War: Judgment and Halo 4, it's usually the GTA franchise that the less games-savvy public figures like to focus on as the poster child for what's wrong in society today.
GTA V is about more than violence
"Anyone who has any conception at all about the games and hasn't played them should go play the games before they open their mouths," says actor Ned Luke, who plays Michael de Santa in GTA V.
"The biggest misconception is that it glamorizes violence. It really doesn't. If you look at my character, Michael, he's rich, but he's a miserable man. Even in the commercials you see that. This is a guy who's struggling with his life's decisions."
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