South Park: The Stick of Truth censored in SA

South Park: The Stick of Truth will have certain scenes censored for its release in Europe, Middle East, and Africa – and this includes South Africa.

This was a marketing decision, an Ubisoft representative told VG247.

Initially reported by BT.com, who had a review document on hand with their copy of the game:

7 scenes of about 20 seconds each are censored in the EMEA console versions of South Park: The Stick of Truth. The decision to cut this content from the game was made by Ubisoft EMEA.

The scenes include:

A mini-game in which the doctor is performing an abortion on the player;

A mini-game in which the player is performing an abortion on the character Randy;

Five anal probing scenes involving someone actively being probed. The scenes play out as normal before and after the active probing sequences.

Each censored scene is replaced by an image background and a description text selected by Matt & Trey.

With specific mention of the console versions being censored, it is unclear if the PC version will be “uncut”.

I predict that the deleted scene files are going to be left in the final build of the game, and some enterprising hacker will figure out how to patch them back into the PC version of the game.

Ubisoft has been announcing and delaying release dates, but currently the game is pegged for a 7 March 2014 launch on Windows PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. South Park: The Stick of Truth carries a PEGI 18 rating.

The game is written and voiced by series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and will require players to arm themselves in order to defeat the crabpeople, underpants gnomes, goddamn hippies, and other forces of evil.