Wil Wheaton (and his GTA obsession) profiled in GEEK.

 05.07.2008 22:14   boingboing.net

Bonnie Burton interviews actor, author, gamer, and geek-er Wil Wheaton in this month's edition of GEEK. Snip: Geek: (...) I need to know how far you�ve gotten in Grand Theft Auto IV. Wil Wheaton: I haven�t been playing GTA IV that long since the game came out�maybe five hours so far. My progress meter is at like eight percent or something like that. I�ve gotten to a point where the story took a rather shocking and unexpected twist. The character that you control in the game is a very conflicted guy with a pretty complicated and dark history. The guy is more real and has more depth to him than any of the other characters I�ve controlled in GTA. Until last night, I may have played one or two story missions to advance the game, but I really just spend the rest of my time driving around and crashing into cars. I drive cars until they catch on fire. I like to go driving through the parks and hit the pedestrians. I�ve noticed a couple of things like if you�re going really fast and you hit a wall or a tree something like that you�ll fly through the front windshield of the car. So I drove really fast down the wrong side of the street on the expressway and hit a car head-on, and the driver shot through the windshield and landed on the hood of my car. That level of detail is just remarkable. But it suddenly felt weird just driving around the city mowing down pedestrians. Has it started to warp your sense of reality when you�re stuck in traffic yet? I hate driving. I absolutely despise it. I particularly hate driving in Los Angeles. I�ll be out somewhere with my wife and point out things, and tell her if this was Grand Theft Auto we wouldn�t have to sit here like this. We could just drive over that median. Wil Wheaton [ Geek Blog / Geek Magazine. Disclaimer: I have been profiled there previously. ]...

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