To add to Kratos’ testosterone-fueling adventures, the game’s creators also made cleverly censored minigames where Kratos initiates sexual intercourse with several women while players must focus on hitting the right buttons in a quick-time event (QTE).īy the third mainline game, Kratos’ sexual escapades had moved up in the hotness hierarchy all the way to Aphrodite (which was weird since she’s his great-aunt). It featured one angry Spartan warrior named Kratos who went on a hellbent rage quest against the Olympian Pantheon for revenge.
God of War’s Greek Gallivanting (2005 Onwards)įollowing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ success, God of War (the first one) was released a year later in 2005 as a PlayStation 2 exclusive. Still, the damage had already been done, and politicians and lobbyists had already laid out a new law for video game ratings. The debacle led to San Andreas getting a stricter rating from ‘Mature’ to ‘Adults Only’ until Rockstar released a ‘cleaner’ version. They initially tried to blame “hackers” for the Hot Coffee minigame, but their defense was later disproven after authorities discovered a pre-existing code for it. They deactivated the content prior to release, but some eagle–eyed players managed to find a way to reactivate it using a mod or modification. The developers jokingly created an explicit sex minigame for San Andreas called ‘Hot Coffee’ where the protagonist, CJ, can have sexual intercourse with his girlfriend(s), and it was a fully-controllable sequence. Then in 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ensured that Rockstar Games found themselves in their biggest legal trouble.
Grand Theft Auto 3 and even Grand Theft Auto: Vice City even featured censored sex minigames where players could pick up prostitutes on the street and pay them for their services. And it’s worth noting that the studio was no stranger to criticism from conservative groups due to its gameplay and story centered around criminal activity. The Grand Theft Auto series from Rockstar Games was already making bolder strides with their portrayal of sex. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that video game developers tried to push the boundaries of what would be possible or permissible as sexual content in video games.
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