Thursday, July 21, 2005

GTA: SA Rerated to AO -- 9:17 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Take Two Interactive issued a press release stating that the ESRB has rerated Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas AO (Adults Only, 18+) instead of M (Mature, 17+). Well, at least now the children are safe. That change of one year in the rating no doubt will result in fewer teenage pregnancies, drive-by shootings, spontaneous decapitation, and Pauly Shore movies. I would also like to remind folks who like to blame conservatives for all of this that the main high-pitched whining was coming from noted non-conservative, Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Having said this, if the notorious "Hot Coffee" mod actually just unlocks content that ships with GTA: SA (as the mod author claims), then Rockstar was pretty stupid not to remove it before shipping. They had to know that somebody would find it. However, if it isn't Rockstar-created content, then I can hardly see how the ESRB could justify rerating the game based on what one modder did. Dumber things have happened though. People often do what is politically expedient instead of what is actually right.

News for 07/21/2005

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