Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a action-adventure game that was developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar. The video game was released on 26 October 2004. Due to the game targeting a USK 16 rating in Germany, the game was censored. When people learned of the Hot Coffee sex scenes in the game and the possibility of re-adding them to the game, the game received an Adults Only rating in the USA, essentially meaning the game was banned. As a result, a censored version was made and released worldwide.

Censorship

International censorship

• The pornographic "Hot Coffee" minigame was fully removed to avoid an Ao-rating.

German censorship

• All international censorship applies.
• The game was originally banned due to high-impact gory violence, the game was released during 2012. Even though it was censored.
• It is no longer possible to kick people when they are lying on the ground.
• It is no longer possible to blast people's heads off with the sniper rifle, and the blood splatter was removed. (The blood pool remains.)

Japanese censorship

(Note: This list is based on the PS2's censorship (which was to comply with CERO's guidelines), whose Japanese release was published by Capcom. the PS3's and PS2's re-release is less censored.)

• All international censorship applies.
• You can no longer sever body parts.
• Beating up the police no longer rewards you any money.
• You generally are unable to chase fallen people with a melee weapon.
• Violence against civilians has been minimized.
• The hotel boy in the Mission 555 We Tip was changed to a criminal.
• The traveler in the Mission Architecture Espionage was changed to a Ballas member.
• The construction worker in the Mission Deconstruction was changed to a Ballas member.
• The Ballas were made a Yakuza-like organization with rather than a street gang, with more influence on San Andreas than in the original version, as a result, when the player kills or attacks civilian targets involved in any mission, the game indicates them as being "members of the Ballas".
• Sexual references were toned down or removed.
• The bone cracking sounds is removed when you run over pedestrians.
• Pimp missions were removed.
• Any scene that contained "extremists depictions" were removed.
• The scene that shows a policeman being torn apart by the helicopter's main rotor in the mission Uniting the Families was cut.
• You can no longer shoot birds in the game.
• Two player missions that involve killing civilians were removed.
• The scene that shows CJ's interacting with Catalina in the mission "Gone Courting" was cut.
• Any scene that shows characters ingesting drugs in missions Body Harvest and End of the Line were removed.
• The quarry mission was modified for the Japanese release. In the Japanese version the corpses were changed to mannequins.
• The word narcotics was changed to sake (which in Japanese can also mean "alcohol" in general).

Saudi Arabian censorship

• The video game is banned in Saudi Arabia due to its violent content.

Where to find it uncensored

Every other country always had it uncensored, and the USK 18 rated releases in Germany are uncensored. There is a mod to make the "Hot Coffee" minigame accessible again.