GTA San Andres now AO (18+)

**Busyman** · 07-20-2005, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by abu_has_the_power

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07...s_6129500.html

Today, Take-Two Interactive announced that as the result of an investigation by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will now bear an AO for Adults Only rating. Previously, the game was rated M for Mature.

After video of the mod was widely circulated, such figures as ardent anti-game activist Jack Thompson and U.S. Senator Hilary Clinton blasted the game. Clinton went as far as to publicly equate violent games with cigarettes and alcohol as a hazard to America's youth. In turn, political heat caused the ESRB to launch the aforementioned investigation, which looked into whether or not the mod was included in the original game or was made by a third party.

Hilary, you will never become president you crazy bitch!

It's about fucking time.

Any store selling it to an underage person should at the very least not be able to sell M OR AO games.

**freak** · 07-21-2005, 02:18 AM

Just a bunch of BS! There are games out there that have worse content then GTA:SA but since the game is more popular and in the spot light they just let the others slide by! IMO even with the mod it does not warrent an AO rating. If you read the discreption for a MA game they are allowed to have brief nudity and not only that it was locked until some dumbass brought it to light... Also my question is since when did brief nudity and brief sexual act become worse then drugs or blasting a cop in the head? Thats why todays youth is so fucked up when there brought up to believe sex is the worst of all evil!

**Mr. Blunt** · 07-21-2005, 02:34 AM

Hillary Clinton is a bitch.

Who was the author of the hot coffee mod anyways? I'm pissed off.

**Busyman** · 07-21-2005, 02:38 AM

By any chance....are all of you that are pissed....under 18?

**abu_has_the_power** · 07-21-2005, 04:00 AM

Originally Posted by Busyman

By any chance....are all of you that are pissed....under 18?

fuck hilary. i bought the game, and i'm enjoying it, and i'm under 18. eat that you crazy ambitious bitch!

the hot coffee mod is kinda stupid though. not worth ceasing game production over some cheesy mini game

**Monkeee** · 07-21-2005, 04:11 AM

It didn't take long for the effects of the rating to be felt. Late Wednesday, Target, and Best Buy issued press releases they were pulling all versions of San Andreas from shelve.

Unconfirmed reports had GameStop following suit, and Wal-Mart told CNN/Money that it had issued orders to all stores to stop selling the game. "We do not sell games that are rated AO," Wal-Mart spokesperson Karen Burk told the site.

In other news, the Soccer Moms of America Association has a party...

**muchspl3** · 07-21-2005, 04:24 AM

who cares
the people that want it have it, who are they really stopping from getting it?

**Afronaut** · 07-21-2005, 05:33 AM

Originally Posted by Busyman

By any chance....are all of you that are pissed....under 18?

I would give my estimate but I dont think I would me making any friends here...

Anyhoo, the game shoulda been rated XXX from the beginning,
and yeas, its the parents responsibility to check what goes on too.