GTA 6 was virtually an excessive amount of for South Korean rankings board GCRB, who struggled to agree whether or not the sport ought to be accepted or not. The board cited “out of context genital nudity” because the sticking level.
Rockstar despatched an software for a South Korean ranking on September 1. The preliminary vote, held on September 10, resulted in a tie, with three votes for classification refusal and three for an Adults Solely ranking.
InvenGlobal acquired the assembly minutes from the voting periods, the place some board members argued for classification refusal over in-game nudity. When voting resulted in a tie, they selected to postpone the choice whereas awaiting a playable construct of the sport.
A GTA 6 construct was delivered to the committee on September 28 and an preliminary revisit of the board was postponed twice for a extra “ample gameplay examination.” That’s one strategy to get to play it early.
After being initially pushed from October 2 to October 8, it was pushed as soon as extra and the committee met once more on October 18. The second overview handed a vote for an Adults Solely ranking with eight voting in favor of the ranking and one voting in opposition to classification.
The content material descriptors have been assigned as “Sensuality, Violence, Crime, Medicine, and Language.” That first one, “Sensuality,” was the problem.
In line with the report, the committee took explicit subject with male nudity with none sexual context. The South Korean rankings board revised its regulation guidelines in September 2025, however beforehand even a suggestion of nudity may land a sport with an Adults Solely ranking.
After the revision, this wording modified to “circumstances the place suggestive bodily publicity is straight and particularly depicted.” GTA 6 was the primary sport to run into the brand new, apparently extra relaxed, guidelines. No such guidelines exist for crime or drug depictions.
A ranking refusal would have blocked the discharge of GTA 6 in South Korea totally. In line with the report, the rankings board felt stress with probably being the only nation to refuse classification to the most important sport of the 12 months.
Final month, GTA 6 acquired an age ranking of PEGI 18, which included mentions of “decapitation,” the flexibility for gamers to snort cocaine at any time, “scenes of sexual fetishes,” and rather more. The ranking, since deleted, described GTA 6’s violence as “bloody with a excessive diploma of realism.” Some weapons will probably be extra brutal than others, with some stated to be “capable of trigger higher injury, corresponding to detailed decapitation and dismemberment.” Rockstar has made drug use “frequent and outstanding,” with gamers capable of partake in illicit substances. Cocaine is claimed to be particularly vital in Vice Metropolis, with the ranking promising that Jason and Lucia will have the ability to use the substance straight from their stock, as it may be “snorted straight from their hand at any time.”
The GTA 6 PEGI description additionally touched on “sturdy sexual themes,” which embody “nudity, scenes of intercourse, and occasional scenes of sexual fetishes.” None of this could come as a lot of a shock, given the GTA 6 launch trailer teases steamy bathe scenes between Jason and Lucia.
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