However, players didn’t realise that everything they said to strippers was broadcast to nearby players, resulting in some embarrassment.Ī 2013 Guardian comment article argued that the Grand Theft Auto series demeans women by reducing them to unplayable characters. The women have a virtual “Like” bar that could be increased by touching them or using a real-world microphone to speak to them. When Grand Theft Auto V was first released in 2013, players were amused to find that they could listen in to other people talking to the game’s virtual strippers. The game was pulled from some retailers, and later re-released as an adult game with a new age rating. Although Rockstar Games had disabled the feature, essentially removing it from the game, players figured out that it took just a simple modification to add it back in.
The Grand Theft Auto series was engulfed in controversy in 2005 when it was discovered that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had a feature hidden on the disc that allowed players to play a sex minigame named 'Hot Coffee' that saw the main character have sex with women.
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