Halo 2 Hot Coffee?

NOTE: This article contains satire and is not to be taken seriously.

According to various articles permeating the web like cancer in the blood, Halo 2 is being delayed for its release on PC (Vista-only, while the console-whores are all basking in the glow of Halo 3's Beta), due to a glitch that can cause the ass of a (male) soldier to become visible, thus earning it a "partial nudity" rating from ESRB, much to Microsoft and Bungee's horror. Although I cannot be sure, my guess is that each model is a simple mannequin with the models of clothing superposed over the top of the body model, thus this error occurring when the buttocks of the mannequin below is somehow pushed out past the clothing model and thus made visible (or so would be my assumption). I cannot help but roll my eyes at this, since it's not like cartoons haven't been displaying bare asses for at least a decade, and who would want to tweak this patch in order to see more man ass, anyway? Seeing as it is a bug, the body below is obviously without textured or graphic detail, so it would only be the existence of the buns that would be controversial. True, it's an annoying and, perhaps, amusing bug, but not something to get all anal about, if you'll forgive the pun.

Quote from a Microsoft spokesperson from 1Up:

It has come to our attention that an unfortunate, obscure content error which includes partial nudity was included in our initial production of Halo 2 for Windows Vista. As such, we have updated the initial game packaging at retailers with a label, so customers are aware before purchasing the game. Additionally, we've developed an online update which can be downloaded from www.halo2.com to remove the content.

Yes, indeed; let us get away from this horrid show of the buttocks so that we can get back to the oh-so-moral game of slaughtering mercilessly. As South Park once so truthfully stated, people only worry about violence until there's something sexual for them to complain about.

Ironically, VG Cats may have been more right than they knew when this comic about the Hot Coffee mod was made.

UPDATE: Apparently, the partial nudity wasn't an error, but intentionally added in jest, according to this article. Really, someone should fire whoever did that for being a total moron. Aside from the sake of making Halo 2 the butt end of jokes such as this, the humor has cost thousands, if not millions, of dollars in complication control.

On a side note, I never knew before that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had an issue with this partial nudity thing as well. Maybe now game companies will quit sloppily leaving crap like that around in the game files.