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.

Censorship

Germany Censorship

• The game was originally banned due to high-impact gory violence, the game was released on 2012 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.)

Japan Censorship

(Note: This list is based on the PS2's censorship the PS3's is less censored.)

• You can no longer remove 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 Misson 555 We Tip was changed to a criminal.
• The traveler in the Mission Architecture Espionage was changed to a Ballas.
• The construction worker in the Mission Deconstruction was changed to a Ballas.
• 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.
• 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 Katharina 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.

Saudi Arabia Censorship

• The video game is banned due to it's violent content.

Where to find it uncensored

Every other nation has it uncensored.