10 Most Controversial Video Games Of All Time

10. Grand Theft Auto (Series)

No gaming franchise has courted controversy quite as consistently as Grand Theft Auto. It even has an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for doing just that.

From the 1997 original to 2013's GTA V, Rockstar's crime simulations have allowed players to commit every immoral act under the sun, and usually rewarded them for it.

This includes carjacking, gun crime, torture, drug dealing and even a bonus sex mini-game called Hot Coffee, which had US politicians spitting out theirs in disgust.

Although such content has seen some countries outlaw certain entries in the series, only one nation has banned Grand Theft Auto outright and that's Thailand, which blamed it for the murder of a Bangkok cab driver in 2008.

The eternal firestorm of controversy has done nothing to harm GTA sales, however, with the latest instalment making more than a billion dollars in three days and continuing to rack up impressive sales to date.