

The sex minigame feature was disabled from the game before release, but not actually removed. "Coffee" is usually offered once Carl reaches a certain relationship percentage, although if he has collected all the oyster pick-ups, coffee is offered automatically, even after the first date.

Since the camera is outside the house, all of these sounds are severely muted. If the player agrees, the camera stays outside, swaying back and forth a bit, while moaning sounds are heard along with various comments from Carl and his girlfriend. In the final game, Carl takes his girlfriend to her front door and she asks him if he would like to come in for "some coffee". The name "Hot Coffee" refers to the way the released game alludes to unseen sex scenes. Given how much trouble Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ Hot Coffee mod caused the developer, it’s doubtful that Rockstar is happy Hot Coffee is seeing new life in Red Dead Redemption 2.Main article: Girlfriends in GTA San Andreas Rockstar reportedly asked the mod’s creator to take it down, though they refused, saying their mod doesn’t contain any nudity and only uses sounds already featured in the game. Rather than unlocking code hidden in the game, the RDR2 mod uses in-game animations to create an explicit scene. Most recently, someone created a Hot Coffee mod specifically for Red Dead Redemption 2.

The scandal also led to the introduction of the Family Entertainment Protection Act, which was introduced in part by Hilary Clinton, and called for the enforcement of ESRB ratings to protect society’s youth.ĭespite the controversy that the Hot Coffee mod created, it has inspired other third-party modifications of a similar nature. Rockstar later released a “clean” version of the video game that was allowed to keep its original M rating. The same year, ESRB announced GTA: San Andreas’ rating had increased from Mature to Adults Only, making it the first (and only) Grand Theft Auto game to receive such an extreme rating. The ESRB subsequently launched an investigation into GTA: San Andreas’ Hot Coffee mini-game. Despite Rockstar’s statement, the controversy eventually caught the attention of activists and politicians, some of which began demanding a review of the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s (ESRB) standards.
