PayDay: The Heist Preview

Boy, do I love killing cops, pistol-whipping innocent civilians, holding up banks, and being a general menace to society! I'm half-kidding; I certainly find these things contextually fun in Sony Online Entertainment's upcoming cooperative first-person shooter PayDay: The Heist, which casts you and up to three friends as a gang of thugs, lifted almost wholesale from The Dark Knight's intro scene. But -- all fire-fueling jokes aside -- I can't help feeling that this sleek little caper game will go down as one of 2011's most notorious "murder simulators," as closed-minded activists call them.