Grand Theft Auto will be rated A/O

xa · 07-20-2005

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.

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EddiePrice · 07-21-2005

yup and its all thanks to rockstar and the politcians.

*Thank you guyz*

* = Sarcasm

Angus · 07-21-2005

That is stupid. I hope it is not going to be like that whenever the next GTA comes out.

Libertine · 07-21-2005

more on this here :

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...eo_game_sex_25

Dynastar197 · 07-21-2005

So let me get this straight, they are pulling the game from the shelves until they can release it as "AO" with the sexual mini games removed?

Note to self: Go out and buy tons of copies to sell on E-bay.

WARLOCK · 07-21-2005

for the ps2 version you can also get the hot coffe codes for the codebreaker.

Angus · 07-21-2005

There was a speical about this on the news today. It was pretty stupid. It showed people at Best Buy taking the game off the shelves, and Hilarly Clinton claming that its inappropriate.

Candle · 07-22-2005

It's disgusting how very little actual work politicians have to do. First off, the game is already rated M, for those 17+. I don't know anyone over the age of 17 that hasn't been exposed to sexual content before, and this isn't even real sexual content. People bought the game to be able to run away from and shoot at cops, jump out of airplanes, kill at random, highjack cars, and explore a fictional world. If I wanted sex game/nudity, I could buy a pr0no or Playboy Mansion. I hate you Jack Thompson. I love you European mod finder guy.

Just curious, but has anybody played the mini-game mod yet? I know it takes a lot of time and work to do the whole girlfriend thing, and its not even required to beat the game...

WARLOCK · 07-22-2005

i've played it on the ps2, it's not that great. she's naked, you're fully clothed, the sound is muffled like it's coming from inside a coffin or something, and once you get done and leave the girls house the game locks up. the only real perk to the damned thing is that it glitches some of the other characters in the game into fully nude women at random.

the only reason this issue gained the publicity it did was because rockstar lied about whether or not they themselves coded it into the game.

MajicBox · 07-22-2005

I am not very surprised, like there is alot of violence and "sexuality" in the game. BUT HELL IT IS SO FUN!!!!!!!!!!! I like the fact that you can make a group of guys protect you and help you (a gang) they did a good job!