Video Game Media has a post about the new Denzel Washington movie, Inside Man, and a video game that is portrayed in the movie. The game has close allusions to the Grand Theft Auto series, and has been provoking some interesting conversations about the whole matter.

The robber takes the child’s PSP and asks how to play the game. As he does, a fictional Grand Theft Auto-style urban crime simulator is shown on screen. The boy explains how the game gives you points for “jacking people rides,” killing hookers, and a variety of other unsavory acts. As we hear this description, the in-game protagonist (an overweight black man in a wife-beater — showing some obvious San Andreas allusions) plasters a thug with dozens of bullets as realistic blood splatters all over the street. As the screen flashes with the message “Kill the Nigga” the protagonist gets out of the car, sticks a grenade in the bleeding thug’s mouth, and steps back as his head explodes, spouting expletives all the while.