14 Most Controversial Video Game Moments Of The 2000s

8. The Sims 2 Lets You See Your Character's Genitals (Or Lack Thereof)

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It's almost as if EA saw this one coming and retroactively made sure that there was nothing whatsoever to see when someone decided to start messing around with The Sims 2's code in order to remove the pixelated nether regions of its world's inhabitants.

Despite the fact that EA's EULA (you know, all the legal stuff) expressly forbade the tampering of any game code for which it owned, miscreants went ahead and did it anyway.

As it turned out, those fictional humans had no modesty to protect: the space between their legs featured nothing more than a bare patch of skin.

Which in itself raises a rather curious question. Where in god's name do Sim babies come from?

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