GTA update removes Hot Coffee

By Games Industry.biz Published 11 August, 2005

Chastity belt go.

Publisher Rockstar Games has released a new patch for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas which disables and removes [oh come on, Rob. How about 'cleans', 'mops', 'soaks' or something like that? - Ed] the controversial Hot Coffee mini-game - preventing the hack that enabled it in the first place from functioning.

"The Hot Coffee scenes were not intended to be part of the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas experience," according to a statement from the firm, which recommends using the patch "if your copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PC has been altered by the unauthorised Hot Coffee download circulating on the Internet, or you wish to prevent your version from being so altered."

It's something of an exercise in closing the stable door after the horse has bolted - Rockstar has already been forced to withdraw stock of the game in North America after the ESRB re-rated it as AO (Adults Only).

The Hot Coffee mini-game has also turned out to be accessible on Xbox and PS2 versions of the game.

Here in the UK, however, the game has retained its original 18 rating, with the BBFC describing the Hot Coffee content as falling within the bounds of what is acceptable for an 18-rated title.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • hula hoops #1 7 years ago

    Unless if the patch comes with some other improvements then I don't see anybody would install it.

  • LFace #2 7 years ago

    It fixes the dodgy sound and dvd streaming issues for starters which makes it a worthy install in my book. No more music-only when it rains or gets foggy

  • ecureuil #3 7 years ago

    It also gives some high-definition support of some kind, apparently.

  • rinoaMW #4 7 years ago

    "Here in the UK, however, the game has retained its original 18 rating, with the BBFC describing the Hot Coffee content as falling within the bounds of what is acceptable for an 18-rated title"

    Damn straight! No confusion or Law-touting-game-sueing-grannys here!

    rock one up for the BBFC!

  • the_angry_monkey #5 7 years ago

    OK 2 comments here really.

    1) I think if the game gets an 18 rating in the UK it probably deserves an AO rating anyway.

    2) Why are people more up in arms about pixelated sex than blowing people away with guns? Seriously, the US seem to get so offended by sex and nudity its just unbelievable. Extreme Violence....fine, but nudity (consensual sex even) - Lord save us! I think the Germans have the best attitude here with their strong laws on violent games but moderate and relaxed attitude towards sex. I mean which of these would the people complaining prefer I did as a result of playing GTA?

    a) Had sex with my girlfriend
    b) Shotgunned some innocent bystanders whilst robbing a bank

    ...

  • the_angry_monkey #6 7 years ago

    lol - nice imagery there :D

    I did forget however that some violent scenes are banned completely, which I do not think is right...hence I think I'll just hold onto the idea of a more relaxed view towards sex. A bit of commons sense is all that's required really. However I still stand by the fact that GTA is an 18 game! You cannot censor completely but I definitely wouldn't want a child of mine playing something like that

  • Ninjamagic #7 7 years ago

    You know whats the funniest?

    Its perfectly reasonable to CARPET BOMB Women, Babies and the Elderly in far off countries. Invade whole nations and steal their resources.

    Start Civil Wars. Kill Mankind on a level no other nation has done in recent times.

    But COMPUTER GAME VIOLENCE?? Well were certainly not having THAT!

    I mean, thats faaar more worse than REAL VIOLENCE (we export).

    Rests his case....

  • Gridbug #8 7 years ago

    Son, that's commie talk. Better pipe down or the Effa Bee Eye are gonna havta have a word.

  • Aretak #9 7 years ago

    "I think the Germans have the best attitude here with their strong laws on violent games but moderate and relaxed attitude towards sex."

    Actually, I think we here in the UK have the best attitude towards things really, which is shown perfectly by how the BBFC have reacted to this. Sure, we occaisionally have to put up with things like decapitations being removed, but on the whole we get a far better deal than many other countries around the world.

  • Midnight_Raven #10 7 years ago

    Son, that's commie talk. Better pipe down or the Effa Bee Eye are gonna havta have a word.

    See Eye Eh, surely? Them other fine folks ainīt workin in any commie countries, otherwise known as "abroad".

    ;)

  • Ninjamagic #11 7 years ago

    Dont change the fact its True!

    Radio Liberty is a REAL station in downtown manhatten. They say what i say (note this has nothing to do with GTA's Liberty Radio!)

  • Ninjamagic #12 7 years ago

    Are you from Arkansaaaaw?

  • the_angry_monkey #13 7 years ago

    I think we can confuse the issues here. I certainly do not think that GTA etc are suitable for children - and much more needs to be done to raise awareness of parents about what children are playing. As for the older sections of society, what you play is largely your choice, but the whole thing in court revolves around the access of minors to explicit content, and this is an area which does need careful consideration. Whatever anyone says - children do absorb ideas from their experiences. You would take a child to an 18 film - but you happily let them play that sort of game, it makes no sense. 10 year olds playing GTA and other such games is just not a good state of affairs

  • sumanai #14 7 years ago

    I think the most of the problem comes from the stupid system that they use in the US. Only AO (18+) -rating is reinforced with a law. And for some reason there is a M (17+) rating in existence. Luckily it seems they're soon going force gameshops to check the age for M games too, hopefully putting some kind of an end to this.

    In Finland, I don't think they censor things here. Only time something has been censored for the last... 10? maybe less ... years has come through UK or Germany. And more importantly, barely anything gets dubbed in Finnish over here. Luckily I don't have to even worry about that one, because it seems no-one here likes anything (except childrens programs) dubbed. Unfortunatly, that one seems to be changing, because so few abroad know of this. For example the new E.T. or whatever, got a global "has to be dubbed to the local language" the import companies worried it hurting sales (seriously).

  • Feanor #15 7 years ago

    Ninjamagic, you're so smart! I'm pretty sure America only had one civil war though.

  • PES_Fanboy #16 7 years ago

    I think he was commenting on civil wars started outside the 50 states?

  • Gareth.de #17 7 years ago

    Damn straight! No confusion or Law-touting-game-sueing-grannys here!

    rock one up for the BBFC!

    Yea it's pretty kewl seeing the BBFC being pretty calm and sober about this as their equivilents over the pond run around like headless chickens. Idiots.

    I thought the USA was The Land Of The Free(TM)? Surely Free(TM) people are allowed to watch/play whatever they want if they fall into the legal age-group?

  • Gareth.de #18 7 years ago

    You know whats the funniest?

    Its perfectly reasonable to CARPET BOMB Women, Babies and the Elderly in far off countries. Invade whole nations and steal their resources.

    Start Civil Wars. Kill Mankind on a level no other nation has done in recent times.

    But COMPUTER GAME VIOLENCE?? Well were certainly not having THAT!

    I mean, thats faaar more worse than REAL VIOLENCE (we export).

    Rests his case....

    Yea but you poke your nose into other people's business and invade their countries so that they can be Free(TM)! Whereas playing games with polygonised tits does nothing to benefit the Free World(TM) so cannot be counted in the same way. It also does nothing to boost the oil supplies of the Land Of The Free(TM) or its allies.

  • Ninjamagic #19 7 years ago

    Its about right and wrong dude(tte)s.

    Shall i start on latin america and their dictators propped by the CIA?

    No - cos this is the games forum not CNN :p

    However dont change the fact its true. Yanks are crazy.

    Real killings isnt so bad (cos its so far off/away) by us but computer game killing?

    WUT IN TARNATION!!! Git mi that lawyer (and twelve bore shotgun) thelma

  • the_angry_monkey #20 7 years ago

    I think branding all US people with the same iron is a bit harsh....maybe we could stop at the majority of the government and a healthy proportion of the population :D

  • Gareth.de #21 7 years ago

    Killing in far-off countries is ok because most Americans don't know where they are. Afghani-what? Is that in Florida?

  • m2h #22 7 years ago

    Where does it say that it fixes the sound issues? You would think they'd want to publicize those fixes, because many have them.

  • Ninjamagic #23 7 years ago

    "I think branding all US people with the same iron is a bit harsh....maybe we could stop at the majority of the government and a healthy proportion of the population" :D
    ---------------------------

    lol


    "killing in far-off countries is ok because most Americans don't know where they are. Afghani-what? Is that in Florida?"

    Proba;bly they will think its a province of Florida, considering the Tripe they are fed by Fox News et al.

    Still i like angry monkeys definition of it!