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Saturday, October 8, 2011

GTA: SA Hot Coffee News

The story has spread like wildfire across the internet: Rockstar secretly included a sex minigame in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Politicians and parental groups led by Senator Hilary Clinton of New York immediately sprang into action and declared that Rockstar and Take 2 specifically and all videogames in general were evil. The ESRB gave in to the pressure and slapped an "AO" (Adults Only) rating on the game and a handful of retailers have taken GTA: SA off of the shelves.

Just for the record, this controversy has been caused by the PS2 and PC versions and can only be unlocked with external cheat devices or special mods. The code is surely tucked away in the Xbox version somewhere, but since there aren't any real cheat devices for Xbox (devices use gamesaves with powerful characters/everything unlocked rather than actually letting you cheat) you can't open up the minigame on the Xbox as of yet. The Xbox version is still getting an "AO", though.

My thoughts? I think that this whole situation was blown completely out of proportion for the following reasons. The secret sexy minigame can only be accessed with an external cheat device. You have to have an Action Replay or a GameShark and then input the codes manually and then do a bunch of legwork in-game to open anything up. You have to go to a heck of a lot of trouble to see anything and most people probably aren't going to bother with it. Because, you know, there is a thing called the internet that is filled with porn that is a heck of a lot easier to access than what you'll find in GTA: SA. I haven't seen the scene yet, but as GameSpot describes it here, it is extremely tame. You never actually see any genetailia and considering how horrible the graphics in GTA: SA are, you probably can't tell what is going on anyway. The biggest problem I have with the controversy surrounding this is that there are considerably worse things out there that politicians haven't made a fuss over yet. Manhunt is the most violent game I have ever seen and is literally a murder simulator (with easy to follow instructions that little kids can and will emulate) but no one cares. And if digital breasts are the issue, The Guy Game, Playboy The Mansion, and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude are considerably more graphic than what you'll find in GTA: SA. Why aren't these games getting "AO" ratings and national attention?

This whole (non)controversy just comes across like a bunch of senators were bored and decided to take the fight to videogames for the umpteenth time. All that is going to happen is that the game will be given an "AO" rating and will be carried behind the counter and you will have to be 18 to buy it. Also likely is that Rockstar will remove the offending code and the game will be rereleased with an "M" rating. Of course, between the PC, PS2, and Xbox there have been about 7 million copies (or more) of the game sold already so all of this hoopla isn't really going to affect anyone that really cared to play the game in the first place.

Hopefully now that the ESRB has acted and Rockstar has been slapped on the wrist this will all go away and we can all get back to shooting gang members and base jumping off of buildings (in GTA of course).


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