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Barry
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Aug 1, 2005, 11:41 PM
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Sims 2 Attacked Over Nudity
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Fresh from the fallout over some sex scenes hidden in a violent video game, an anti-game crusader is pressuring Electronic Arts to take action against those who modify another game, ``The Sims 2,'' so that it can display naked characters.
Jack Thompson, a Florida attorney who has tangled often with the makers of video games, has written a letter to EA and a number of politicians alleging that teen-rated ``The Sims 2'' game should be the next on the list to be re-rated as an ``adults only'' game. That's because the game can be ``modded'' to show naked characters. Normally, the game blurs, or pixelates, the images of characters when they change their clothes, take showers or go to the bathroom in the simulation of ordinary life.
``This is nonsense,'' said Jeff Brown, spokesman for EA. ``Reasonable people understand there is nothing improper in the game. `Reasonable people recognize what mods are. A consumer who chooses to use a mod does so without any kind of agreement with the company. There is no nudity. There is nothing improper or vulgar in `The Sims 2.' ''
Thompson alleges that the mod for making the characters fully naked is available for downloading over the Internet and that EA is doing nothing to curtail the availability of the mod. The only difference with the Sims vs. GTA 4 is the fact the PS2 version of GTA 4 had the 'sex mod' meaning the developers put it in. To get the nudity mod for the Sim one would have to download a mod on the internet, meaning it's an additional part to the existing code EA created.
Brown said that EA normally encourages fans to create their own mods to
make the games more fun. He says the blurring of the game characters is
a ``comedic device'' and that the unmodified animations of the game
characters themselves are not anatomically correct and that they
resemble store mannequins in that respect.
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