Posted on 07/21/2005 11:00:49 AM PDT by Mike Bates
The maker of the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" has halted production of the PC version of the game and predicted millions of dollars in lost sales due to a re-rating of the title to adults only.
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) revised the game's rating Wednesday amid a controversy over sexually explicit material in the game. The additional material is unlocked by a software modification dubbed Hot Coffee, allegedly created by hackers and readily available on the Internet.
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The rating revision hurts game maker Take-Two Interactive Software because stores in the U.S. won't be allowed to sell the game to anyone under 18 years old. The revised rating may also cause video game makers to spend more on increasing security in their products to avoid similar tampering with their software code.
Trouble with "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" started shortly after the PC version was released in June. Someone posted Hot Coffee on the Internet, a software modification that allowed users to play sexually explicit mini-games on the title.
The modification caused an uproar, culminating in a call by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for increased legislation and stiffer penalties to keep violent or pornographic video games away from kids. The New York senator also prodded the ESRB to revise its mature rating on "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" to adults only, which the group did.
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YEa. And I'm getting my money's worth big time out of VC. I wasted my money on Battlefield II. I just die and die and die. I get dumped to the desktop too.
heh-heh
So pimping, drive-bys, and wanton theft and murder were OK, but God forbid that the kids see a boob.
It's like what Comedian Chris Rock said - people will get outraged if a breast was exposed in a Dora the Explorer video, but have no problem with the sleazy adult book store down the street.
GTA has an unhealthy hold on me. I woke up this morning and decided not to go to church and to stay home and play GTA all day instead. Finally, I had to go to the store and realized I had to come home and take it out of the X-BOX and lay off of it for a while. Even though I'm in the middle of the boat missions and they're really cool.
I beat it yesterday!!!!
It is seriously the hardest and best game I have ever played!
Soooo complex!!
Battlefield 2 looks good, I played the Demo, but I was reading the system requirements and I was thinking....is this a MICROSOFT game? LOL!
You guys must like multiplayer first person shooters.
You gotta try Enemy Territory: Return to castle wolfenstein
http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041/
It's FREE!
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