Regarding the furore sorrounding the GTA minigame unlocked by Dutch modder Patrick Wildenborg. the alsoran decided to track down a clip of the actual sex-scenes. Have you seen it? HAVE YOU SEEN IT? Talk about a case of overblown media hype. The recent, excellent God Of War has a sex minigame that makes this look as bad as the alsoran’s first drunken sexual forays.
Obviously the minigame was never taken to a completed stage, with tearing and unfinished weighting on the nude female model’s skin, as well as simple blocked out pose-to-pose animation throughout, and excessive crashing between CJ’s hand and the girl’s breast.
Given the media-baiting connotations of offending minigame’s name “Hot Coffee“, as well as the GTA series’ history of fooling the media into doing their bidding (beginning with the original’s Max Clifford-engineered theft scadal hoax, and lately with a witnessed account of Rockstar’s excessive marketing budget) the alsoran concludes that there is a high probability Rockstar fully intended that the game be shown, even in its unfinished state. Perhaps Wildeborg is even another Kent Paul.
On a more serious note, the alsoran welcomes the re-rating to Adult Only if it allows developers to include more adult themes (and by “adult”, he means dramatic story-driven real-life hardships, as well as important social comment, not more T&A). This will have a great impact on sales given conservative stores like Wal-Mart’s reluctance to sell AO games, but what truly discerning gamer buys their games from Wal-Mart anyway?
As an aside, at the time of writing, the top 3 FAQ hits on cheat-code site GameFAQs are:
GTA: San Andreas – PS2
GTA: San Andreas – PC
GTA: San Andreas – XBox
Jonathan Cooper is a Scottish