"GTA6" was banned by 18 reviews. The two protagonists can carry and smoke contraband at any time.

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"GTA6" seems to have added another item to the series' already extensive list of "bad habits". In addition to strip clubs, violent carjackings and wanton killings, the game also features "frequent and prominent" drug use, which players can try "at any time" according to the new age rating.

GTA 6 recently received a PEGI 18+ age rating. The rating information was uploaded to the Pan-European Games Information Council website and then quickly deleted, but not before fans saved and shared details of the listing.

PEGI's description basically covers the content that the "GTA" series of games should have: murder, robbery, gun crime, other illegal activities, and a lot of swear words.

The new highlight of this sixth sequel seems to allow players to use drugs freely.

The deleted rating report stated: "

Drugs are used frequently and prominently in the game. Players can take drugs with other players or use illegal drugs directly from the inventory. It is especially noteworthy that players can carry cocaine with them and smoke it directly from their hands at any time

Although most of the stories in the GTA series are themed around the drug trade, most of the protagonists in the series are not keen on using the drugs they sell. Both Give Him Love 5 and GTA Online offer optional marijuana bongs, but they can usually only be found in player-owned apartments and cannot be carried around in the game world.

Another age rating report earlier today showed that "GTA6" may be the first "GTA" series game to directly depict sexual scenes, and PEGI's rating information also confirmed this: "The game contains strong sexual themes, including nudity, intercourse scenes, and occasional sexual fetish scenes. In various nightclubs, players can also pay to watch private dances, during which the game allows players to put their hands on the dancers' breasts and buttocks."

Finally, as expected, there is violence in the game, as is customary for Rockstar Games. PEGI says players can "damage all other characters in the environment in a highly realistic manner." Certain weapons apparently "inflict more severe injuries, such as more detailed decapitations and dismemberments."

Rockstar developers have been bragging about how they've greatly improved the details of GTA6's "redesigned" weather system and various other aspects of the game, so the more realistic violence may not be a surprise.