The National Institute on Media and the Family has added its voice to those outraged by the discovery of a sex mini-game apparently hidden away in GTA: San Andreas by Rockstar Games.The group has issued a National Parental Warning about the game and added a FAQ to their website, warning parents that their children could be exposed to pornographic material.
The scandal began last month when news of the 'Hot Coffee' mod for GTA San Andreas appeared on the web, alongside claims that it was official code left in the game by Rockstar Games.
A Californian assemblyman laid the blame at the feet of the ESRB, who he said should have given the game an AO (Adults Only) rating; in response, the ESRB have launched an official investigation into San Andreas, promising "appropriate action" if it finds Rockstar have violated the rules set down by the organisation.
Rockstar have since told Gamespot that they did not include the code in the game, but today the hacker who uncovered it insisted that it is official code:
Now widely reported in the Associated Press and other outlets, the mod was authored by 36-year-old Patrick Wildenborg, a Dutch gamer and a member of the modder community, those computer users who alter a game's programming for creative purposes, often adding new character "skins," altering weapons, or adding new items as aspiring game developers.
The retail release of the game does allow for the game's protagonist, CJ, to indulge in blatantly sexual activity with his girlfriends--any in-game activity of that sort takes place behind closed doors and is merely accompanied by suggestive sounds. The Hot Coffee mod lets gamers into the bedroom to watch CJ get in flagrante delicto with a lady and even have control over the participants' actions.
Wildenborg insists that the X-rated code is already in the game and that all his patch does is bypass the game's "censor flags." Rockstar has remained largely quiet on the situation, but a representative from the company did tell GameSpot on Friday that the explicit code was not inserted by Rockstar or its agents in the retail discs.
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