San Andreas "hype"

JAKKMOVE · 07-23-2005

What has been all of the hype in regards to GTA? Something about some sex scene in the game, and it now being rated as an Adult Only game. Does anyone know more info about it?

Unwritten Law · 07-23-2005

I thought it had to do with an expansion for the PC edition or something like that.

Angus · 07-23-2005

Its some hack thing you can do. Pretty worthless if you ask me.

.ECHO. · 07-23-2005

this is the first time i've heard this but that'd be gay because i love GTA

Savage · 07-23-2005

I watched a show that mentioned this. Its like a code you type in and you go to this one place and you get to have sex with some hoe. It was on VH1

JAKKMOVE · 07-23-2005

It is amazing that they are making a mountain out of a mole hill, if you ask me. This game is one of the greatest games to ever be made (in my opinion), and though it is a game that is heavy on the violence and drug aspect, they should have made it Adults Only from the beginning. Children will still get their hands on the game. All they need is an adult to buy it, or a brother who is 18, or an uncle....etc. This will never stop the kids from playing these games. If parents truely have a problem with this game, the parents should get more involved in what there kids are actually doing. Wow, you would think I was a parent!

WET · 07-23-2005

I believe someone posted an article in Off-Topic or Entertainment somewhere that had the full explanation.

Basically it said that the company blamed hackers for adding the sex to the PC version, but they found out that it was also on the PS2 version. Which everyone knows is a unalterable DVD. So Rockstar got busted adding XXX stuff to a game that was rated M for mature.

Mr~Pan · 07-23-2005

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Summary:
For those of you that haven't heard GTA: San Andreas will now be rated A/O and production suspended. Basically it was discovered that there was a super hidden(at least in the PS2 version because the data was unalterable, it required an Action Replay and many codes to unlock it.). This all started because the PC version had a mod that allowed you to actually play this. In any event, the game is now being labeled A/O.

Full Article I read:
After percolating for weeks, the Hot Coffee controversy has finally boiled over. Today, Take-Two Interactive announced that as the result of an investigation by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will now bear an AO for Adults Only rating. Previously, the game was rated M for Mature.

The re-rating comes nearly a month after the first reports surfaced of the so-called "Hot Coffee" mod for the PC version of San Andreas. After being installed, the widely available mod allowed users to play a bonus sex minigame as a reward for completing the numerous "girlfriend" missions in San Andreas.

After video of the mod was widely circulated, such figures as ardent anti-game activist Jack Thompson and U.S. Senator Hilary Clinton blasted the game. Clinton went as far as to publicly equate violent games with cigarettes and alcohol as a hazard to America's youth. In turn, political heat caused the ESRB to launch the aforementioned investigation, which looked into whether or not the mod was included in the original game or was made by a third party.

In response, Rockstar Games, the Take-Two subsidiary which develops and publishes San Andreas, issued a carefully worded but heated statement in reference to the PC mod. "So far we have learned that the 'Hot Coffee' modification is the work of a determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game," it read.

However, Rockstar's statement did little to extinguish the fires of controversy. Soon reports began to surface that the console versions of San Andreas contained code for the sex mini-game. Late last week, GameSpot editors unlocked the code from a PlayStation 2 copy of San Andreas bought in October 2004 using an Action Replay Max device and a series of cheat codes. Since console games are written on unalterable DVDs and cheat codes cannot introduce new content, the fact the minigame was playable at all means that it was included in the original PS2 San Andreas, albeit hidden.

http://www.medaverse.com/modules.php...rticle&sid=713

Thats the original topic about this. Explains it pretty well. Heres the topic about it if you want to read what other people had to say. http://www.socom3.com/socom3/viewtopic.php?t=20372 The video of this sex scene is actually in that topic if you want to view it and your over 18 of course.

JAKKMOVE · 07-23-2005

Thank you for posting that. I have been looking online for some info, and I was watching G4TV, but they only skimmed the details. There was nothing too big about it. Thanks!

Boba.Fatt · 07-23-2005

Here's a clip of what the controversy is all about...
GRAND THEFT AUTO:SAN ANDREAS SEX CLIP ****CAUTION****18 and over ONLY!

And here's a short story on why anyone who complains about it is a moron...
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse....ticket_to_hell