The Grand Theft Auto series has been the poster child for What’s Wrong With Video Games for more than a decade, portraying a series of homicidal anti-heroes shooting and carjacking their way across US city stand-ins. But the games also are weirdly moral—you shoot people and the cops chase you, for example—and this includes drinking. When GTA IV protagonist Niko Bellic, an Eastern European mercenary, bellies up to a Liberty City watering hole, he gets plastered—and when he stumbles outside, the "camera" is woozy, the game controller shudders, and you have trouble keeping Niko upright. If you get behind the wheel, it’s even worse, as it’s nearly impossible to stay on the road without smashing into streetlamps, cars and pedestrians.

Bryan Le is a staff writer for The Fix. Hunter Slaton is The Fix's Rehab Review editor.