Grand Sex Auto: Hidden Scenes Unlocked By Hacker

[jmiller]

In news that is sure to spike last minute sales of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as the insatiable gamers rush to get a copy of the PC version before Wal-Mart yanks it off the shelves, an investigation has been launched to determine if creator Rockstar Games intentionally encoded sexually explicit material within.

The website of 36-year-old Dutchman Patrick Woldenborg has been flooded with visitors trying to download a software code he developed that unlocks secret sex scenes within best-selling and highly criticized Grand Theft Auto video game.

The free code, named “Hot Coffee,” works as a software key that unlocks secret sexual material in the game. For example, one scene in the movie depicts a young couple having coffee and then retreating to another room “other activities.” In the original game, rated M for mature by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the couple can be heard having sex. Woldenborg claims the code allows you to see what is happening, instead.

Hidden features like “Easter eggs” or cheat codes that allow certain advantages and secrets are common in video games, usually reserved for the most savvy of gamers. Sometimes they can be stumbled upon by accident. Woldenburg claims this is much different—more like a hacker’s code that unlocks parts of the game that may have been in the original but were disallowed in the final version. He says its impossible to accidentally unlock it, or to do so without the code.

Rockstar Games, owned by Take-Two Interactive, denies any involvement in placing explicit scenes and said in a conference on Friday that it is confident the game will retain its mature rating, allowing for sale in any retailer to purchasers 17 years old or older.

A change in rating to Adult Only could limit the sales of the game, an action understandably not desired by Rockstar Games.

[YOUTHERE1.com]

This story is even being featured on MTV News, so both Rockstar and the game itself are receiving quite alot of mileage on this.

Whether the code was left on intentionally or the Developers simply ran out of time to remove it in order to meet a deadline, is up for debate.

However, at this point I don't see their official rating being hiked from "M" to "AO" as the explicit scenes are not even accessible through general use of the game - implicit tampering with the code is required.

This is no "easter egg".

[KeithO]

People need to move on. Its a game that already is not supposed to be sold to minors as it is. You have to be 18 to buy a Playboy and 18 to buy GTA. Where is the problem? Is it the parents who buy it for their 13 year old? Is it that people don't want to pay attention to the real issues and want to be able to point the finger and say "thats the bad guy."? Get real people. Even though I don't have kids, I wouldn't need these people to do my child rearing for me.