It's indeed a fairly violent game, if you choose to make it so, but I was never tempted to kill innocent people in the previous GTA games and I don't in this one (unless I'm running away from the cops) But I know for certain that should a need arise in real life for me to run away from the cops by killing an innocent person, I'd go in quietly. Personally I don't believe violence in games makes any impact on the gamers as some reports would have you believe.