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Videogame by-products of entertainment franchises have a long and ignominious history of being cheaply made wastes of human effort, churned out to exploit the unwary. Sadly, South Park's previous game outings have fallen into this category, but The Stick Of Truth is a proper adventure game, unmistakably the work of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and containing an extended fantasy-themed South Park episode to explore at your own pace. In Europe, some elements have been censored (including, it says in the press release, "A mini-game in which the player is performing an abortion on the character Randy" and "Five anal probing scenes involving someone actually being probed"), and it's way too easy. But it's also very funny and the only way of witnessing Grand Wizard Cartman at work.