In Rockstar’s case, GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas were removed from sale prior to the Trilogy’s arrival on November 11. Just this month, Capcom removed suggestive comments and upskirting from its new VR version of Resident Evil 4, though the original version of the game is still available on Steam.
It’s also become increasingly common for studios to cut other offensive content from games before re-releasing them. Just last year, Twitch banned the Confederate flag from appearing anywhere on its streaming platform. Apple removed games that featured it from the App Store back in 2015. The Confederate flag, long a symbol of Southern states igniting a bloody Civil War in defence of slavery, has recently come under renewed scrutiny as more and more white people realise how racist it is. Over the course of the games, Cassidy loses one of his arms when one of his moonshine bombs accidentally explodes, and is generally an arsehole fuckup, so it’s not exactly an endorsement of the symbol. Vice City is where he’s featured the most prominently, however, and it’s the only game in which he’s wearing the Confederate flag on his clothes. The studio did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Ī gun freak and drunk, Cassidy appears in GTA III, Vice City, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories.
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