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Alex, I would not purchase this "game" for my son. It glorifies and trivializes violence, but in a very realistic way in terms of blood and injury, not so realistic in terms of real-life consequences.

You want to teach him about "life"? Ninety-nine percent of us don't live the life of a street thug, and would actively try to avoid such people if we were to encounter them. My son, age six, frequently pretends that he's shooting a gun. This is normal: Six year olds don't have a lot of power (or impulse control), and guns seem powerful to them. His uncle is on an emergency task force (like a SWAT team) with the police, and I've suggested that if he wants to learn about real guns, he can talk to his uncle. I shot my first gun, a shotgun, at age seven, and naturally, it knocked me flat on my ass. After that, guns weren't so appealing, although I am a reasonable shot with a .22. I just don't need to kill my own food much.

If you want to show him real life, take him to the poor parts of Lisbon, where the drug addicts and whores live. I would start with the part to the east of that square with the Austrian Emperor in it. It's not very glamorous like a violent car thief, just sad and usually dirty. He may understand that his life is privileged, and he may have compassion for those who make terrible, self-destructive decisions.

If you want to show him real life, get him a subscription to an international newspaper, or show him some of Al-Qaeda's Greatest Hits on YouTube. He will soon learn there is enough misery in the world without creating imaginary chaos by which we are entertained.

Let his friends talk, and answer him honestly. But don't let him sit in front of a TV set spending hours (it is a very long and complicated "game") plotting how to put a bullet in a rival thief's brain. That's not the sort of fun a ten-year-old should be having.