Originally Posted by Zorba
Grand Theft Auto is pure fantasy. It's a load of crap and nonsense. Those aren't real people you are shooting; they are purely imaginary.
Recreating an assassination, on the other hand, is real. It breaks down the border between video games and the real world. You may as well create a game that recreates a sleepy town in Minnessotta that actually exists, fill iw with the people who actually live there, and let you run around causing havoc and mayhem, killing real people.