"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is more Educational than any Video Game Advertised to be Educational

I did not mean to contradict myself even if i did appear to do so, I was simply trying to say that the lessons Pro stated are good lessons to learn, but all the other "lessons" someone might take away from it are not, I probably should not have said "career criminal" but i see no other real world context were conducting illegal activity could be very beneficial. Pro stated that you are not "forced" into doing anything morally questionable, this is in some ways true, you are not "forced" into doing anything but the missions which may or may not entail anything illegal, what you are though is "influenced" into doing these kinds of illegal or morally questionable activities. If you are put into a environment such as the game provides where you are not only rewarded for but expected to do illegal activities then you will in all likely hood commit these activities. Pro also neglected to mention that at certain points in the game you are indeed required to commit illegal activity to move forward in the game, such as when you are asked to kill a crooked cop. This type of situation does not give the player a choice in the matter, there is no way to circumvent this activity, which is to say he is forced to kill. Pro would then be wrong in his assumption that your own moral compass leads all decisions and you can avoid illegal activity Finally I will address my "Sims" comment, I will now answer the questions I was posed. "was The Sims marketed as an educational game". .. .No the sims was not marketed as an educational game, but that does not mean it cant have educational benefits, you have stated that GTA SA has educational value even though it was not marketed as such. I was simply using it as an example of a game that was not marketed as educational that teaches the same good benefits you say exist in GTA SA without the threat of the morally questionable aspects of the game. "Was it designed to be educational". .. .. once again no, but for the above reason I don't believe it has to be. "what about the game is more educational then GTA SA". .. .. Many things pro stated as good lessons to learn from GTA SA can be found in the Sims and even some that exist only in the Sims. You are required to manage a home,clean up and keep it in good order,hold a job and advance your chosen career, manage your diet, manage a healthy work/social life relationship, and all of these things have positive and negative consequences which the player has to account for without being forced or influenced to commit any kind of illegal activity, which I believe makes it a superior game for strictly educational value. "If it is not related to the resolution, can my opponent find another game that relates to the resolution and is more educational than GTA SA? ". .. .. while it is not a marketed educational game, the Sims fits the definition, "an electronic medium with all the characteristics of a gaming environment that have intended educational outcomes targeted at specific groups of learners. ". The Sims fits into this definition of an educational game where as GTA SA does not. while GTA SA may have some educational benefit, it does not match or exceed that of a game that fits into the definition. In closing when we look a the resolution "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" is more Educational than any Video Game Advertised to be Educational then we have to say no, for the simple reason that even games not marketed as educational have more educational value then that of GTA SA and if we were to find a game marketed a educational it would surely exceed that of even the Sims and using logic exceed that of GTA SA