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| Levels-4-You : Lounge : San Andreas Rated AO |
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| Dark Jon |
  Posted 21st Jul 2005 3:38am |
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ESRB slaps dreaded rating on controverial best-seller; Take-Two lowers guidance; Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target pull game from shelves.
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 Ratings Board (ESR , Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will now bear an AO for Adults Only rating for "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, [and] Use of Drugs." Previously, the game was rated M for Mature.
More info here: http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/gta4/news_6129500.html?q=1&tag=gs_hp_flashtop_read
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| General_187 |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 4:32am |
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Sad to see another great game pulled off the shelves! Makes you wander how old the person is thats behind the desk making these decisions!
*future* - Becomes one of those guys behind desk and allows the "gore" games to go onto shelves!........... Makes millions in doing so! |
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| DVL_IAC |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 4:37am |  |
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lol good thing I went out and bought it last saturday.  I'm about 20 hours into it already and it doesnt seam like an AO game... I think the mature rating it had before better suits it... |
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DG  |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 7:51am | |
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The only thing making the game an AO game is the 'Hot Coffee' modification not even made by Rockstar! (although it does unlock original content created by Rockstar) |
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| elliooo |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:08am |
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| Quote | | ... hackers created the 'hot coffee' modification by combining, reconstituting, and altering the game's source code... we are currently investigating ways that we can increase the security protection of the source code and prevent the game from being altered |
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| ishakmustafa |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:21am |
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Well to protect rockstar from being shutdown by the crazy old people in the goverment they have to protect themselves.Why cant they just sutdown all the links and websites that are providing the hot coffee mod.I have friends as young as 9 years old playing GTA San Andreas and they dont get violent or become porns they just act like normal sensible people. |
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| elliooo |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:29am |
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Why don't they shut down all the links and websites?
Because they can't.
If they could, people wouldnt still be able to download movies, music, and game cracks from the internet either.
In the early stages of the game's release, Rockstar praised the game for it's 'high customisability', meaning mods. Most games these days allow modification. You'll find a mods section on most of the game sections here at L4Y.
GTA: Vice City had a huge mod community and Rockstar didn't mind, it isn't until mods uncovered something that Rockstar didn't like that they suddenly started calling modders 'hackers' and the likes.
Now they are concidering legal action against Gameshark, Action Replay, and perhaps even the modding community.... |
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SkipRat  |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:35am | |
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Heh carefull man gtaraunch is gonna get shut down
Doh! |
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| Dark Jon |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:35am |
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i don't know why they even put sex minigames in there anyway if they're not even used in the game. |
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| Dark Jon |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:46am |
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| Quoting elliooo | | Quote | | ... hackers created the 'hot coffee' modification by combining, reconstituting, and altering the game's source code... we are currently investigating ways that we can increase the security protection of the source code and prevent the game from being altered |
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Elioo's right, isn't this what mods are supposed to do? 
Sorry For Double Posting!!! (Don't have right to delete previous post) |
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| ishakmustafa |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:51am |
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| Quoting Dark Jon | | i don't know why they even put sex minigames in there anyway if they're not even used in the game. |
Yeah how stupid are they.They should no to delete that sex program and then tested it against some modders to see if they could find that program.I think i,ll buy GTA San Andreas in Malaysia coz the goverment doesnt care about games    I have been playing San Andreas in cyber cafe,s and i think i shoud own it myself.There is no age limit in playing games here yahoooooooo.The only action the goverment has taken on the gaming community is putting polices undercover in cyber cafe,s to catch any student be it kids or high school dudes and then send them back to school .And then they get caned by the teachers Serves them right for not going to school. |
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| elliooo |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 8:55am |
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| Quoting Dark Jon | | i don't know why they even put sex minigames in there anyway if they're not even used in the game. |
It was most likely just left-over code form another game idea that never made the final release. A game of the size of San Andreas would have to be hard to put together all ordered, so its likely that stuff could get left over.
But in my opinion, they really should have been more careful. |
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| FuryThor |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 9:48am |
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Yeah well it's no wonder that they rated GTA:SA so since it is truly an game for adults since it contains so much unsuitable stuff for kids |
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| Pickles |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 10:14am |
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The mini-game which wasn't even to be part of the original game was what gave it the AO tag, not the M tag... it would have been fine otherwise!
Anyways... AO big rip, you can still buy it online and it only adds one more year here in the US! (17 to 18)... 
Anyways whens this bad boy coming to the computer... or is it out for the computer...  I'm so outta the times!  |
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| ishakmustafa |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 10:21am |
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Yay no age limit no age limit kids can play GTA:San Andreas as long as they dont use hot coffee mod. bah what am i saying most gamers here dont even know what a mod is. |
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| D2k |
Posted 21st Jul 2005 10:30am |
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I saw this on the news a yesterday. Im glad its getting an AO rating because it will hopefully inform parents what they are really letting their kids play. However i have no complaint because i can get it whenever i want. Unforunatley im not much of a GTA fan... |
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