10 Console Games That Will Probably Be Banned In China

10. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS, PSP, iOS)

Bans? Video games? How could we forget the grandaddy of all controversy courtesans, the Grand Theft Auto Series. Every Grand Theft Auto game could fall within under the anvil of the Official State Ban-hammer, but the most inconspicuous and obvious of the series to be left outside of the billions-market-party would be Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The award-winning, highest-rated Nintendo DS and PSP Rockstar game tells the story of Huang Lee, the enfant-terrible of a Chinese Triad boss, flown from China to Liberty City for his father's funeral, only to be swept up in a good-old-fashion ethnic gang-war between the Chinese Triads, the Korean Mob, and the Angels of Death. While the events of the game are squared firmly within a fictional American city, Chinatown Wars makes a connection to the mainland explicit, even from its title: this corruption is paralleled in China. Nearly every major character is not only Chinese, but a criminal and an immigrant, having already reached criminal success in their homeland before coming to America to hit the big time. The game even got a Nintendo Power (R.I.P) banned form Ohio Middle School Library. Luckily the ACLU intervened, saying "literature should not be removed from a school library simply because one may find it inappropriate." In China, the government isn't designed to ensure free-speech, but state-speech. (Probable) Official Statement: Banned for "criminal depiction of Chinese men...insinuating that corruption and criminality is endemic in the glorious People's Republic of China," and "a surprising lack of licensed music for the five radio stations."