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GTA Sex Game Leads to ESRB Fracas

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the additional-content-land dept.

At first, it was nothing more than a rumour. A "sex mini-game" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, left in the code for the PC version and unlocked by inquisitive players. Then, as more and more information became available it seemed as though the sex game might be real. This revelation has lead to California Speaker pro-tem Yee blasting the ESRB for their apparent slip-up in examining all the content in the game. The ESRB has responded by pledging a "thorough and objective investigation" of the claims to get to the bottom of the situation. Commentary is available from Joystiq, GamesAreFun, and Buttonmashing.

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  1. Re:"pro temp", not "pro tem" by typobox43 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It should? I've never seen that usage in this case. Just look at the Google results for "president pro tem" and "president pro temp" - 96,800 for the former, and only 674 for the latter. "pro tem" is simply an abbreviation of "pro tempore", nothing more.

  2. Mod parent up (or not), GP down by Suddenly_Dead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have writing "Mod parent up" posts, but I think this time it's semi-necessary. The mods who gave that rating to the grand parent post are quite wrong here.

    As the parent said: The minigames included in Word and Excel have nothing to do with the ESRB, because Word and Excel (seeing as they're not games) were never submitted for a rating.

  3. Re:Better Quesiton by evolutionaryLawyer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    1) the ESRB gave this game the highest age rating possible aside from "Adults only" which I think should be reserved only for X rated type stuff anyway, which GTA (although some may disagree) falls short from this. If anything it would qualify for an NC-17 in film ratings standards, so M for Mature is more than acceptable.

    NC-17 is the new X. MPAA replaced it like 10 years ago.