14 DAY TRIAL // Oh? Jack. He never lets a week go by without getting some attention onto him. However, sometimes he has no choice and this sounds like one of those times. According to a piece up on gamepolitics.com, the game hating attorney has sent in another document, filed with a federal court in Florida, where he has included a letter to Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick, claiming that the lawyer that's supposed to get killed in the game by Niko is actually him.
He's most likely right about that last part, but even so, what and (most importantly) who is there to prove it? Here's what a piece of that letter reads:
"I have this morning read with interest an article on page 80 and 81 of the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine which was generated when, according to its author, Rockstar Games "stopped by the Game Informer offices for an impromptu hour-long gameplay session with the Xbox 360 version of the game."
The showcasing play of the game to Game Informer revealed that the first killing mission of the "hero" of the game, Niko, is to kill a certain lawyer. When Niko comes into this lawyer's office, having used subterfuge to do so, Niko pulls a gun on the lawyer who says that "the firm supports the second amendment and that 'Guns don't kill people. Video games do.'"
"?The fact that the lawyer, killed on Niko's first mission would bring up video games, makes it clearly a reference to me? This is not the first time Rockstar Games and Take Two have targeted me in this fashion. Take Two references to me as a bisexual pedophile on its corporate website?"
Well, Rockstar never liked being your average uptight video game developer, so what else were they supposed to do when someone was trying to ban their games? President Bush gets killed in plenty of artistic pieces and never cries about it. It's a vicious circle really and we're tired of talking about the never ending war between the company and the lawyer. Just search for all the news on it and document yourselves.
Jack concludes by stating the following: "Now you have descended this low - using one of your games to threaten my physical safety? Failure to comply with the deadline? will result in my having to take necessary and proper means to stop release of the game which targets me personally? given the copycatting of violent games?"
All we can wait for is Take-Two and/or Rockstar to answer Thompson's letter or, for Take_Two and/or Rockstar not to answer Jack's letter.