This is why people buy video games because of all this controversy surrounding the game, I hope they know by doing this their helping the games sales not preventing people from buying it. According to some news site, the New York Police Union (NYPU) is tiring to remove “Saints Row 2″ from store shelves because in the game the player controls a gang member who can steal, do drugs and kill as many characters as possible, including police officers.

And according to the Union, the game dehumanizes police officers, trivializes violence and sets a terrible example for young people. And get this. The games creators stated that the game is rated “M” and it isn’t for the eye’s of someone under the age of seventeen, go figure. Also on Tuesday, surrounded by police union members who support her bid for Manhattan District Attorney, candidate Leslie Crocker-Snyder and others spoke out against the violent game.

Wednesday a man walked in to his local video game store, EB Games, robbed the store an told the the clerk he was doing it to save his family. Umm. Yeah right. The video game store is store located in the 9000 block of St. Charles Rock Road. The St. John Police Department told KSDK, who reported this story, that  the incident took place on Wednesday around 6:35 p.m. Police said that the suspect went into the store, picked out a video game and approached the counter to check out. Then he pulled out a small handgun and told the store clerk that his family was being held hostage and that he needed a Playstation 3 in order to have them released.

After this happen the suspect told the clerk to call the police, right when he left the store. The Police arrived shortly after, but the suspect had fled the scene.

Well, if you ask me it sounds like some couldn’t pay the money to buy the PlayStation 3 because they are BIG Madden fans and they would to play it with the full nex-gen experience. But, this is not something to take likely because you never know what could happen.