Television Judge Greg Mathis and director Matty Rich say they are teaming up to make a game for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 called Mathis “Detroit” Street Judge.
Rich directed excellent indie urban drama Straight out of Brooklyn in the early 90s and not-so-excellent video game 187 Ride or Die in 2005, and Mathis settles the disputes of the lost and hopeless on syndicated TV. So the pairing is interesting, to say the least. The duo plan to make a Grand Theft Auto-style action game featuring prison rape.
“The main difference between our game and Grand Theft Auto is that players will have to deal with the justice system and consequences for their actions,” said Mathis. “When you go to prison, you gain credibility when you come back on the streets. On the other hand, when you go to prison you can also be raped. So take your chances. We may see young people who make the wrong choice and go to prison and are assaulted repeatedly (in this game).”
I think I'd rather not be raped repeatedly.
But at the risk of making this a more serious issue than it deserves to be, while it's possible to play "urban" games like GTA IV without committing any crimes, players' environment encourages criminality very strongly. If you're all but forced into a life of crime by playing the Judge Mathis game, and then you're raped in prison, maybe that makes a compelling social statement. If it wasn't for the involvement of Matty Rich (seriously, Netflix Straight out of Brooklyn; it's brilliant) I'd think this was ridiculous, but as it stands, hey, maybe this game will be smarter than the people laughing at it.
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tonkpils
Are you people f.ing stuppid or just completely brain dead ? You don't know much about mathis he's trying to encourage people not to do things that will land them in jail, or prison.(Borderlinestaker). (Foralstokes)Are smoking CRACK ????when's the last time you played a vid game,or are you still playing with Barnie over there in MR.Rodgers naborhood.Games today are filled with death,cussing,the (N) word and all you're worried about is prison ass rappings in vid games welcome to the real world if you and other gamers can't handle that then all of you should stick with Barnie and MR Rodgers.Joshua_nash you're an idiot nothing more needs to be said.(N8R)your one of 2 people that had something cool to say nice to see there are some who can think instead of talk stuppid finkle matter out there ass.(MADPAULKILLA) Not a bad idiol accept if that was the case It could indacate that you've been there just alittle bit to long. (LOL).the rest of you chill out and don't spend so much time on vid games there's a real world out there you should check out every now and then.