August 22^nd, 2005 (1:41pm) - Attorney Jack Thompson has made it clear that he is on a personal crusade to destroy Take-Two Interactive, working with soccer moms everywhere to attack the video game industry. While his tactics are questionable, with some manipulating the laws of the United States of America, he’s once again made a move to attack another game developed by Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar subsidiary, The Warriors.

The Warriors is scheduled to be released in October and is based on the controversial of the same name that had been released in 1979, directed by Walter Hill. Additionally, the movie itself had been based on the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick. The game, and film’s, story is based on the life of a street gang war in New York City.

Thompson has sent an e-mail out to ESRB President Patricia Vance asking for the game to be given and "AO" rating.

"Either the ESRB slaps an ’AO’ for Adults Only rating on the above murder simulator, or I and others will undertake steps to make sure that happens...That movie spawned so much copycat violence 26 years ago that Paramount stopped advertising the movie and released movie theaters from their contractual obligations to exhibit the film."

Once again passing judgment on the game before having the opportunity to properly evaluate it, which shows us how ignorant Thompson can be, based on the official trailer of the game, Thompson claims that The Warrior’s "violence levels eclipse anything even I have seen in any game. This game will be a gang-banging simulator, and it will lead to real violence. The game will pose a public safety hazard, and that is not even debatable, not after the American Psychological Association’s blockbuster Resolution released two days ago."

Ironically, further showing us his hypocritical nature, Thompson has threatened the ESRB to fulfill his wishes, saying that the game "must not fall into the hands of anyone under 18. In fact, it should not be sold to anyone, given the public safety hazard it poses...Once again, the sociopaths at Take-Two...are doing something with a recklessness that harms the entire video game industry...It is an irony undoubtedly lost on the knuckleheads who run Take-Two that this game comes out of its Rockstar Toronto design studio, with Toronto presently reeling from unprecedented levels of gang warfare...I intend to make the ESRB do its job for a change. Do it, or else."

This e-mail has also been forwarded to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of 25 to Life fame, New York Attorney General Spitzer, California Assemblyman Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY).