South Park: The Stick of Truth’s abortion, anal-probing scenes censored in Europe, Middle East, and Africa

South Park has a history of pushing censorship boundaries in television with its raunchy humor and satire of sensitive social and political topics. Now its legacy is extending to video games, thanks to Ubisoft’s cutting of several scenes from the cartoon’s long-awaited adaptation.

When South Park: The Stick of Truth releases in the Americas (March 4), its console versions will have two minutes of gruesome content that won’t exist in many parts of the world. That’s because Ubisoft, the publisher of the comedy role-playing game based on the long-running satirical cartoon, is eliminating two abortion minigames and five anal-probing scenes from its PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions in certain global regions.