Grand Theft Auto franchise has generated billions of dollars in revenue by basically providing a detailed sociological satire of American consumerism wrapped inside a murder simulator.

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Grand Theft Auto franchise has generated billions of dollars in revenue by basically providing a detailed sociological satire of American consumerism wrapped inside a murder simulator. Politicians spent years trying to ban the games for causing real-world violence, completely missing the fact that the actual violence was just a secondary feature to the game's ruthless mockery of their own political incompetence. The true legacy of the series isn't the digital car theft, but rather the fact that it convinced millions of teenagers to willingly listen to fake talk radio stations that savagely deconstructed modern capitalism