Monday's CSI: Miami featured a plot right out of Jack Thompson's notebook: a group of college students act
out scenes from their favorite video game, Mario Sunshine. Just kidding, it was of course a game named
Urban Hell Raiser that involved robbery, rape, and murder. Of course there's more than that; there's an
ex-gamer cop, an evil gaming executive, and David Caruso!
Salon's Andrew Leonard sufffered through the episode describing the experience as "like rubbernecking at the scene of
a car wreck, it proved impossible to look away." He continues, "In conjuction with the venom and disgust that enfuses
the word 'gamer' when it's spoken by star David Caruso, aka 'Horatio Crane,' it is made clear, as one poster on the Web
noted afterward, that people who play games are but one step removed from pedophiles or suicide bombers in the social
hierarchy of evil."
Anyone manage to make it through this episode without turning into a deranged lunatic?
(UPDATE: There is a pretty thorough episode guide over at CBS that has to be read to be believed. "They move toward the evidence vault and one turns his gun on Natalia Boa Vista. However, Horatio blows him away just before he can take his kill shot." Priceless.)
[Via games.slashdot.org]
