Monday, 1 October 2012

GTA San Andreas, Hot Coffee Mod (UNFINISHED!!!!)

Hot Coffee is a normally unaccessable minigame in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The minigame involved sex between the main protagonist, CJ, and his in-game girlfriend. Upon the game's release, the developer, Rockstar North, decided it was contrabersial and closed off the piece of coding that allowed access to the minigame, just before the release. Then 1 year after release, a dutch moder found this piece of code and released as a mod for the PC version of the game.
The discovery of this minigame created a large amount of controversy around GTA, with some politicians firing harsh words at both the developer and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the group that decide what the ratings for video games in North America. It has also revived the debate over the influence of video games in general with new protests against several other games such as Killer7, The Sims 2, and Bully.
Jack Thompson was one of the first to criticize the game for its hidden content, believing violent media is one of the main causes of violent crime in America. Thompson filed lawsuit against Rockstar Games on several occasions for previous games they have developed.
U.S. Senator Hillary suggesting new regulations be put on video games sales. The ESRB conducted an investigation that changed the game's rating from Mature to Adults Only 18+. Also, Congress passed a resolution to have the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether Rockstar intentionally decieved the ESRB by having the content in the game.
In New York, a class action lawsuit was filed by Florence Cohen, an 85-year-old grandmother who purchased the game for her 14-year-old grandson (according to the old rating of M, the game is typically considered inappropriate for this age). Cohen's lawsuit claimed that Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of the game, are guilty of deception, false advertising, fraud and abuse. The accusation of deception is based on the change from M-rated to AO, meaning according to the lawsuit that the original rating was a deceptive practice.
A protest group organized a protest on August 4, 2005 at Rockstar's headquarters. The group demonstrated against San Andreas as well as the upcoming game Bully, due to fears that the content could inspire children to become bullies themselves.

 

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