Remember the Hot Coffee scandal which surrounded San Andreas? It involved a hidden bit of code which if hacked allowed the user to play a sex mini game with your girlfriend after you took them out on a date. After much work a similar thing has been found in GTA IV. A secret mission titled Hot Coughing and starring someone who bares a uncanny resemblance to one of our favourite lawyers... Jack Thompson

Those clever hackers have done it again! Hacker group VladsBoys’ analysis of the pirated copy of GTA IV for the 360 (leaked days before retail release) has reeled in a big one. The cyber-sleuths knew they were on the trail of something big and yes, you guessed it, they found another never-intended-for-retail-consumption chunk of code in a GTA game.
What the hackers found seems to be an abandoned mission that Rockstar at some point intended on including in the game. We have no idea how far into the process this mission got before it was pulled, but we’re pretty sure they knew what they were doing by the mission name… that name was Hot Coughing.
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    Storm May 4, 08
    Is this Jerk Thompson's first game appearance?
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      chautemoc May 4, 08
      Jack Jerkson is another good one. =)
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    theundertakergonzo May 4, 08
    Haha, Jerk Thompson, that makes me laugh!
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    Dragoshi1 May 4, 08
    ROFL.

    Hot coughing. Lol. Probably goes like this;

    [insert employer here] wants Niko to "take out" A Massive video game critic named Thompson jack. Pick him up in your limo, park it on 4th street, and then do any means neccessary to "take him out".

    Items given for this mission: Every damn weapon in this game. Plus, a rocket propelled chainsaw.
    • 3
      VeGiTAX2 May 4, 08
      Best comment of the day right there.

      "Plus, a rocket propelled chainsaw."

      Someone should get a gold cast of that quote.
    • -1
      Final Blade May 4, 08
      LMAO "Rocket Propelled Chainsaw" Talk about brilliant. I would love to see that in action.
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    joshuam May 4, 08
    haha jerk thompson xD
    nice one
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    Oogity_Boogity_Boo May 4, 08
    Rockstar is absolutely brilliant.

    Can't wait until they reconstruct it and put it up on Youtube.
    • 0
      Krunal May 4, 08
      Keep waiting... just don't hold your breath whilst you wait... or you may reach heaven/hell whilst waiting (sooner than if you didn't hold your breath).
  • 0
    Synergized May 4, 08
    Go figure, you're going to *bleep* up Jack Thompson on this mission.
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    StarJet May 4, 08
    ROFL! Jerk Thompson. Hahaha!!! So, how do they go about unlocking this? Is it only on the XBOX360, coz PS3s cannot run hacked ISOs?
    Wonder whether this mission would be there on Youtube.
  • 0
    Gotenks May 4, 08
    Hahaha that sounds great.

    I can kind of picture it now. I can't wait for it to be put on Youtube!
  • 2
    Krunal May 4, 08
    Anyone read the article properly? Let's see what they have under the tags....

    "Tags: Fiction Friday � Grand Theft Auto 4 � fake news"

    Ahem at the last one. It's fake guys
  • 0
    joshthegreat May 4, 08
    I love SarcasticGamer. Amazing website. Amazing guys who run it. And an amazing forum community. I also won 1600 MSpoints from them.

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