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Things have been remarkably quiet on the Jack Thompson front recently; hell, what with GTA IV held back until next year and Manhunt 2 currently trying to appeal its unrated classification from the BBFC, you’d think he’d be sitting back, sipping on some margaritas and psyching himself up for a new year chock full of violent digital atrocities to campaign against. But no, it seems that Thompson’s crusade knows no rest – the lawyer recently revealed in a comment on an unrelated topic on Game Politics that his sights are now set on BioShock.
“Please note that big trouble is on the way for Take-Two re BioShocks [sic]” stated Thompson, finishing with his trademark, “Hooah!”
Wait a minute – BioShock? I can sort of make the conceptual leap to how animated violence in a semi-realistic city space might, hypothetically, affect an impressionable mind, but BioShock is set in a decidedly un-realistic crumbling underwater utopia where the ‘enemies’ are not the emergency services and gangsters – they’re malformed genetically altered freaks, for crying out loud. And those are the ones that look the most human.
It’s probably those Little Sisters – perhaps kids, who by the way aren’t supposed to playing BioShock, nor any Jack’s other favourite whipping boys, will be subconsciously trained into having violent inclinations towards corpse-sucking small girls with glowing green eyes. Plus, its’ not as though knocking them off in the game is without repercussions – no, no; mess with them and you’ll learn the error of your ways via the medium of a lightning-fast behemoth in a diving suit with a drill for a hand. Tell me that’s not a good reason to rationally question the morality of your in-game actions.
The sad fact is that the only reason Thompson has taken his fight to BioShock is because it is being published by 2K Games, a subsidiary of his arch-nemesis Take-Two Interactive. We tried contacting 2K Games for a statement but at the time of print we hadn't heard anything back. If we do, we’ll let you know.
Jack Thompson’s sights set on BioShock now?
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