Chris

The following websites have posted an article relating to the sex scenes in San Andreas. In the UK: BBC Computing.co.uk Aawsat ABC Money Blimey Tech Smec IT Week The Register In The USA: CNN GamesIndustry.biz All Headline News Rediff.com The Bosh Red Nova PunchJump Progressive U Bayou Buzz I-NewsWire Houston Chronicle Blog Critics My Mother Lode Washington Times SignOnSanDiego Earth Times The World Forum National Ledger WebProNews JuiceeNewsDaily Reuters Addict3d WWMT IHT In Canada: Canada.com P2PNet In Australia: Australian IT In New Zealand: Stuff.co.nz In The Netherlands: In Pakistan: Kashar In India: Web India 123 Tech Whack Hindustan Times Express India

In over 2 and half years of writing news for The GTA Place I've come across a fair amount of articles with controversial views. But never in those 2 and a half years have I come across controversy quite like this. It has all happened after Politician's in the USA finding out about the "Hot Coffee" mod and consequently wanting the game to be sold with an Adult Only rating. The "Hot Coffee" mod unlocks secret sex scenes that Rockstar had censored in the game code. You are NOT able to view the crude sex scenes without this mod. And therefore the game cannot be sold with an AO rating in my opinion. Only through downloading this mod are you able to. A fact that reputable companies have already got wrong: Patrick Wildenborg wrote the code for the sex scenes - WRONG. The code was left in the script and Patrick W. simply found a way to "uncensor" it. Patrick Wildenborg is fast becoming a household name after huge corporations such as the BBC have quoted his response to the dispute. What is Take 2's view of things? Well, they aren't commenting, since this is a modification and "Take 2 never comments on the activities of the modder community". The investigation is being led by the ESRB, a spokeswoman had this to say: "The aim is to determine if there has been a violation of ESRB Rules and Regulations requiring full disclosure of pertinent content," And Rockstar's response? They have issued the following quote: "We also feel confident that the investigation will uphold the original rating of the game, as the work of the mod community is beyond the scope of either publishers or the ESRB," I feel that this contorversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is simply another reason for politician's to attack GTA. The GTA series has always been criticised for violence and the apparent implication's this has on children being violent. And this leads me on to another point about children saying "GTA made me do it" after various acts of violence are carried out, some leading to murder. Irresponsible children should not be allowed to play GTA, it's rated M for a reason it's not just a guideline. What I find particularly ironic is that the sex scenes are not at all realistic, sometimes CJ is fully clothed. The characters are pixelated and the sex scenes are rather crude. In fact they are merely suggestive. What about games like The Sims 2? Nothing wrong with this game is there? Well you decide. The game is aimed at kids, nude skins are widely available for download and use in the game, add to this the fact you can already have a sex (it is called "WooHoo" in-game but it is an obvious representation and is suggestive just like in GTA San Andreas). But no, nothing at all controversial about that...Even the original Sims game had nude skins available. One example of such "adult" content for the sims is at the fansite VeryStrangeSims.com. Which has nudity, gore, and sexually suggestive content. Please post your comments in this topic, something worthwhile too, like your thoughts and feelings on all of this. There are a hell of a lot of news sources concerning this, if you read the follow up post I have listed tens of news sources I could find with an article related to this. I have found that currently there are over 50 related news articles. Due to the publicity of this mod there are hundreds of news sources, Google News would be a much better place to go to see all the articles, rather than me trying to list them all. Read more...

Small raped me and then left the forums in shame...it was good though...thats why I asked him back he never went to jail I was just keeping him in my room... And wtf has that convo been posted yet Bryzed was so adamant on getting the last word in...

smallpancake is back!!! I love you

you mean "brace yourselves" right? I don't know about you but there's nothing to be scared about, no need to be brave EDIT: Just realised that 'v' is next to 'c' on the keyboard so t'was probably a typo nevermind

Actually looking at my map of GTA2 the cities don't seem to have names, they're just Downtown Sector Residential Sector Industrial Sector Thinking about it that's essentially what Liberty City was... just in a different order.

We'll be adding a lot of textures to our download database in the next few days.

London would be way to small to have as a whole game, you would literally have to do the entire city and outskirts etc. What I think: It will be rather like San Andreas, a state, but have different areas, London being one, with a further 3 areas, each city of GTA2. Then thats all the GTA 2D to 3D conversions done and dusted.

You're talking about GTA games right? Well if it's just textures then use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro whatever your preferred image editor is. For models then you need to use a program such as ZModeler to make them (which currently doesnt have support for San Andreas)

Please refrain from one word/smilie posts... What I would like is some proper digital quality screens from Rockstar most of all.

Hmm. I've always had an Intel so I wouldn't know much about AMD's after never having experience one. I won't bother voting since I can't provide much input.

you should be able to still access the forums via that subdomain but we just chose not to use it anymore, It's a lot easier just to keep them on the main domain in my opinion, plus its easier to keep track of all the stats when its on the same domain.

WTF? This was almost a year ago... So yeah I'm gonna lock this.

Well I'm hoping we get something decent, not like "Tommy Vercetti appears for a split second and you kill him lololol!!"

Then choose a different name.

Yes there is the link has been removed and btw that skin is crippled in Firefox.

Oh and something else I forgot to mention. In The Sims 2 you can actually have sex. With a few nude skins and patches or whatever applied you can see everything in better detail than on San Andreas. But no AO rating for that game. Politicians wonder why they earn themselves a bad name. It's because of stupid menial things like this. They should worry about more important things.

Uhh... do you know what ragdoll effects are? They ARE in the game. Look, get a jetpack and move back and forth, see CJ's legs move due to the momentum. That's rag doll. Blow up a car with another car next to it, see how the other cars gets blasted away due to the force of the explosion. That's ragdoll. Stand next to an explosion. See how you get thrown away. That's ragdoll.

GAME, Europe's leading specialist retailer of computer software and video games have announced in their latest email to newsletter subscribers that they are giving away exclusive information on GTA Liberty City Stories. The email (below) clearly states that by preordering a PSP console you will receive a free preorder pack... We don't know exactly what this information is but we are trying to find out. This has got me hyped up for LCS now and I've just pre-ordered a PSP! So I should get the pack in a few days, I'll be posting about it as soon as I receive the info. Links: PSP Page @ GAME.net GAME.net Homepage

Politics should not get involved with videogames.

Lol at the woman for feeling the need to use a live sea creature as opposed to something more usual.

The French site were probably sent it by some kid and then they posted it because they figured they can get publicity out of GTA sites posting about it...maybe. Let's face it they were probably none the wiser if they weren't avid GTA fans...

Good ideas, we'll need people who can take charge of all that, if I set those forums up and stuff...

but like every forum we have problems with one word posting n00bs And then you have those weird people who post random images. Lol And people who quote loads of quoted posts... Yeah, those Quote Trains or whatever you want to call them are irritating. Yeah and it's pointless when you're replying to the person who posted directly before you as it already follows the conversation It sure is, this really should be ended We should make this into a game on forum fun Quoting loads of posts? Lol, no, this should be ended. I think I'll lock this.

Sounds like a good idea. Feel free to add more suggestions as I'm not such an RPer myself and so I'm not accustomed to what we need...