Video Game includes drug use - Marijuana is a "power up"

[KurtNYC]

The gameplay primarily involves arresting dealers, whose drugs can be confiscated and used.

A digital puff of marijuana, for example, temporarily slows the action of the game like a sports replay. Taking an Ecstasy tablet creates a mellow atmosphere that can pacify aggressive foes. The use of crack momentarily makes the player a marksman: a "crack" shot.

But using each drug also leads to addiction, which can lead to blackouts that cost the player inventory and to demotions or even expulsion from the police force, which halts progress in the game. In measured doses, the substances can make a tough challenge easier, but the makers of the game say it is possible to play without using the drugs at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/technology/circuits/17drug.html

Well if they thought controversy would get them attention, they were right -- the New York Times. Bizarre.

[slutticus]

1. LOL!

In Narc, L.S.D. use results in hallucinations.

[Lone Pawn]

2. Oh, there's something new.

[liontamer]

3. that's clever

it would be interesting if the drug use were a bit more realistic. Like if the pot just slowed the player down and the view of the game, but if the games actions actually continued to happen in real time.

[Endangered Specie]

4. Well shoot they have been using mushrooms for over a decade now

whats the big deal? :shrug:


Poppy plants too:

[iconoclastNYC]

5. Oh no. Teen drug addiction is going to go thru the roof!

Yawn. If I was a parent my children wouldn't play video games. They'd read books and play sports.