South Park: The Stick Of Truth - 12 Reasons It's Awesome

4. It's Not For The Easily Offended

South Park broke out as a success in 1997 not only because it was hilarious, but because it's raunchy nature was unheard of for a cartoon at that time. The idea of a cartoon involving fourth-graders swearing like sailors, inadvertently getting involved in adult oriented issues (both with a talking piece of poo) and more were enough to put the show in the spotlight as something so potentially poisonous and offensive that not even adults should watch it, let alone children. What truly matters in the end however is that the show was funny as hell, and while it has significantly matured - despite still often going for shock value and gross out humour - it is still going strong. Over time, South Park slowly evolved into the sharpest and most brutal social commentary around, fearlessly attacking any religion, race, celebrity, brand or idea, all without caring about the repercussions. If the game had held back and tamed, articles like this praising it probably wouldn't exist. Even taking into consideration that in Europe roughly 45 seconds of the game is censored, it took serious guts on both the part of publisher Ubisoft and developers Obsidian to give Trey Parker and Matt Stone as much creative control as they have been, to release this uncut in America. The majority of the entire second half of the game is simply filled with moments of pure shock and disbelief; as mentioned in the introduction to this article there is an interactive abortion mini-game present, which is nowhere near the most offensive thing in the game. Stick of Truth pushes the envelope to the moon, and is right up there with some of the show's most controversial episodes.