South Park The Stick of Truth censorship screen revealed

Console versions of South Park: The Stick of Truth will have censored scenes for its Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (EMEA) release (which includes South Africa).

Ubisoft has clarified that this only affects the console versions of the game and the PC version will be the full uncut experience. Ubisoft previously explained this was actually a marketing decision from Ubisoft.

When players reach the censored scenes, this is an an example the screen they will see, summarising the scene with text (as posted by a user on Reddit).

South Park Stick of Truth censorship screen

The console versions will have 7 altered scenes:

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.

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.