14 Most Controversial Video Game Moments Of The 2000s

3. Grand Theft Auto IV Goes Full-Frontal

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Ironic really, that a scene in which a man strides around stark naked in Grand Theft Auto IV's DLC made it past the ratings boards when just four years earlier, Rockstar was facing a PR nightmare with the Hot Coffee dilemma.

I like to think that in those intervening years, the wider world has come to accept the fact that, just because its a video game in which the graphic imagery appears, we shouldn't all immediately grasp for a descriptor that suggests offence, but it's more likely apathy due to the connotations that the GTA name carries with it.

Of course, that didn't stop parental advisory groups jumping on the opportunity to issue public warnings about the scene.

If only these things had an 18 age rating plastered all over them, eh?

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