“If you need to learn the rules of the Shooting Range, then go to that page,” gamewise.co advises readers. “You have the choice of three weapons to use in this challenge, either the Pump Shotgun, Sawed-Off Shotgun or Assault Shotgun. If you haven’t unlocked the Sawed-Off Shotgun or Assault Shotgun (either bought them or used them at least once), then you are forced to use the Pump Shotgun for now. You must shot multiple targets with one shot to achieve gold in challenges 1 and 3.” That’s not good. I mean the phrase “assault shotguns” (having to master a pump before a semi-auto is fair dinkum). In the wake of the Navy Yard shootings we saw the first use of the term in the mainstream media. GTA’s use of the moniker “assault shotgun”—as opposed to “tactical shotgun”—is a bad thing, not a good thing. This coming from a gunblogger who’s got a fair few black Benelli, uh, scatterguns.
The term ‘Assault Shotgun’ has been used by GTA since the ‘The Lost and Damned’ DLC for GTA IV. The Assault Shotgun is a full-auto shotgun, so the name actually makes some sense. It’s not select-fire so it’s not truly an ‘assault’ shotgun if you use the same terminology as an assault rifle, but GTA is not a military simulation game, and does not need to be absolutely correct in the naming of its weapons. This is not a big deal and a really stupid ‘story’
IT….IS….A….GAME.
NOT a political statement.
Also, game development is such that…well, two things; 1) it take quite a while to develop a game. This phrase was likely included in the game long before you heard it on CNN in response to the Naval Yard shooting; 2) In a game that has so many different kinds of weapons, designers rarely being allowed the use of actual name brands, have to use matrices of generic terms to define and describe the myriad of choices and stats. That likely resulted in that choice of words occurring by shear chance, and probably sounded cooler than “tactical shotgun” – any weapon can be used tactically. Lets be honest the word “tactical” is as meaningless as the word “assault”, is it not?
Full disclosure: I am a video game developer.
God she’s an ugly bitch!
Mr Smitty
michi, outstanding! Thank you!
REALLY disappointing. They should apologize to any of us they hope ever buy a copy of their magazine. In a digital world, those things are hard enough to sell as it is.
What does VA legislature look like?
It’s very Orwellian… you have your defined role, you do your defined role then you go to sleep, wake up, do your defined role, lather, rinse, repeat.
Right, so dying, cowering before a threat, is better than the potential for successful defense?
I guess I’ll just let my house burn down because I’m not a firefighter and am not trained in the skillful use of a fire extinguisher.
My high school chem teacher was a Marine and then a cop until he decided to teach
Sigh, is not just Europe is socialist countries overall. I came from South America, guns are illegal, and some exceptions are only for authorized personnel. Criminals still have sidearms, shootings still happen , stabbings are common place… and worst , given the bad aim a lot of bullets end up dropping out of the sky as “lost bullets” and killing people once in a while.
The mark of a socialist nation is their economy and the thought that being a victim is morally superior to being a survivor.
Just like Stalinist Russia! Squeal on your neighbors to give yourself points with your all-knowing overloads! For Stalin!
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