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July 9th, 2005, 13:48 GMT

GTA: San Andreas-Gate. Sex, drugs and..?No! Sex and mods

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What's violence and a life of crime without sex? Well, certainly not something boring, but nevertheless, something that is surely quite far from reality.

So, how could a game that wants to be as real as possible not include this important aspect (and we're talking about GTA: San Andreas here)? Well, it seems that this is not the case, because it looks like the game, which has created a lot of controversy around it due to its violent nature, contains some scenes that would make even a porn director envious.

Thus, according to Patrick Wildenborg, a Dutch gamer, GTA has some very explicit sex scenes included in the game, but which have to be unblocked by using a special mod, called "Hot Coffee", as reported by the Boston Globe.

Wildenborg is a "modder," a gamer who uses software tools to modify the look and feel of his favorite games, and then share the results, called mods, with other gamers by publishing them on the Internet.

The ''Hot Coffee," a GTA mod created by Wildenborg and some of his friends, allows the player to view highly explicit images, which actually resemble a real pornographic movie, except for the fact that they are computer-generated.

However, this is not the main problem regarding this mod. According to Wildenborg, "All the material that is used during the sex scenes of the 'Hot Coffee' mod are on the official San Andreas release,".

The "modder" says that it's harder to get at the porno video in GTA. It can be done only on the version for desktop PCs, and it requires running the ''Hot Coffee" program, which changes one bit of data in the computer's memory -- ''the censor flag,".

"If the censor flag is set, all the sexually explicit scenes are blocked from the normal flow of events," he said. ''If, however, the censor flag is cleared," said Wildenborg, ''all the explicit scenes are tied into the normal gameplay."

Wildenborg says that the sexual content was already built into the game, rather than added by his crew of modders. Take 2 Interactive, which makes the GTA game series, could clarify the matter in a minute, but it won't. A company spokesman said Take 2 never comments on the activities of the modder community.


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Comment #1 by: carlosc1dbz on 09 Jul 2005, 17:35 UTC reply to this comment

Hello, in my opinion what I just read is just crazy. That organization "Family" is just looking for something controversial to get its name out there. If we think about things the way Family wants to, then we are going to have to rate the lifetime channel as pornography because we have more than enough sex scenes on that channel. Do you understand what I mean? If someone hacks into a game and allows the showing of things that are not intended, then it is them who should be sued and rated Adult for it is them that are making this content available to children. Are these modders/hackers doing anything to protect children from viewing adult content? I didnt think so. The final point I would like to make is that the game is rated Mature 18 and over. If there is a mod/hack that allows you to see a sex scene, then it is ok because only 18 and over are suppose to play the game. If there are kids playinng the game that is the parents fault and not the ESRB or Rock Stars fault. The most important thing to remeber is that this sexual content is only viewable through a patch which is voluntarily downloaded, so in the end it is the person who downloaded the patch who is to blame, or the parents of the young child that is not suppse to be playng the game.

carlosc1dbz


Comment #2 by: 4444 on 16 Jul 2005, 01:28 UTC reply to this comment

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Comment #3 by: josue104 on 07 Nov 2007, 02:36 UTC reply to this comment

whats wrong with us seeing sex cenes on a game if i have
already have seen sex with my own eyes!?!?!?

and i have seen a real vagina when i was 4 years old of a 5 year old girl on my school and she even invited me to touch it... but i got shy and run away... how stupid i was...

Comment #3.1 by: Wat on 29 Aug 2010, 00:43 GMT

I know i think back to when i was a kid and i played docter and didnt know wat anything was

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