The Simpsons Game Goes Soft on Grand Theft Auto

The Simpsons is a cult movie and now a cult game, thanks to EA and the title seems to be the perfect parody of all major gaming hits. As such, it also makes fun of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto, by including a level called "Grand Theft Scratchy". However, Rockstar's representatives are not too keen on this type of humor as they've requested that the GT Scratchy posters were taken down, after seeing them at the GC 2007.

Since EA don't need a scandal right now and Rockstar have got plenty of those thanks to Manhunt 2, they've decided to change the name of the level in The Simpsons Game. It will now be called "Mob Rules" instead of Grand Theft Scratchy, which is still a nice choice, but it doesn't sound as good as the original one. We really don't understand why Rockstar couldn't take the joke, but it must have been the fact that the poster for Grand Theft Scratchy was a very bloody one and the game was mentioned in EA's title as a violent media product.

However, some proved that they can take jokes and I mean the guys from RedOctane who loved the Sitar Hero posters and ordered a couple of them, showing their appreciation for EA's originality. In the next "The Simpsons" title, Electronic Arts will probably have to mock its own games, since it seems that making fun of other producer's titles is not a good idea any more. What about parody movies? What if every director and actor who ever felt offended by a parody asked the producer of the mocking motion picture to take his character out of the film? It would probably ruin the entire storyline, change all dialogs and destroy the hard work of the director and script writer...