I'm from El Salvador, a country where most politicians are corrupt and gang violence runs rampant each day... I've read some comments (I think there were user comments on Gamespot) that they thought they showed really well the corruption in the country so I was curious about your opinion.

Of course it shows the darkest parts of Brazil, I don't think that the people will have that image for Brazil as a whole, but I liked that they portrayed the somewhat cliché story of the footballer who grew in the slums and become a superstar, specially since Rockstar is an american company so they might know very little about football (or soccer as they arrogantly call it).

In the end I enjoyed MP3 a lot, and I think that Brazil, as pretty much EVERY SINGLE country in Latin America has good and bad people, corrupt governments, lovely touristic places full of nature, gangs, good music...

But as you said it's a game and they picked the elements they worked the most for them, they even depict the canal of Panamá quite different but they still ground it with the museum elements, so in the end it's like 70% fantasy and 30% reality :]