Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. announced it has censored the European version of the 18-rated comedy role-playing game "South Park: The Stick of Truth."
Censorships will apply to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions of the game, according to Eurogamer. The censorship was made to the game in the Middle East and Africa as well.
The PC version of the game will be censored in several regions around the world, according to Destructoid. The regions include German, Taiwan, Austria, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.
Ubisoft censored seven scenes, each about 20 seconds long, Metro reported. The scenes were not removed entirely. In place of each censored scene is a static image and a description text by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park.
The censored scenes include a mini-game where a doctor performs an abortion on the player, a mini-game where the player performs an abortion on the character Randy, and five 'anal probing' scenes in which characters are 'actively' probed, according to Forbes.
The censorship of this game is not the first incident of restriction to take place for South Park, Forbes reported. Comedy Central censored an episode in 2010 that showed the Muslim prophet Muhammad, which was against the wishes of Stone and Parker.
The cuts in Europe were made by the publisher as self-censorship, while the cuts in Australia were made by the Australian Classification Board, Forbes reported.
The 18-rating was given to South Park: The Stick of Truth by PEGI, a pan-European game ratings organization, Eurogamer reported. PEGI covers video games released in the UK. Instead of censoring games, PEGI rates games based on the content given to it by publishers as well as an age rating the game is expected to receive.
Ubisoft said in a statement the decision to censor the scenes is "a market decision by Ubisoft EMEA," according to Metro. Ubisoft also said, "We have no other details to share or comment to make."
