Near the beginning of South Park: The Stick of Truth you’re given the choice between four character “classes”, a familiar trope in role-playing games. In this case you can be a Fighter, a Mage, a Thief, or a Jew – and if you plump for the last, Cartman emphasises that you probably can’t be friends, but maybe you can take care of the guild’s finances.

South Park: The Stick of Truth is finally here, with fart jokes aplenty in tow. South Park: It launches in the US today and in the UK this Friday, but the launch video is available to view right now. The game has received a number of glowing reviews and currently has an 85 per cent Metacritic average on PC and 82 per cent average on Xbox 360.

South Park’s humour has never been close to the bone so much as breaking it, then gleefully sucking out the marrow while dancing on the pieces. By far the best thing about The Stick of Truth is its script and willingness to go places that other games don’t, whether that’s the range of exotic dildos and crack pipes in Cartman’s Mom’s bedroom or the cavalcade of mental and physical and ethnic distinctions among its extensive cast. This is the game of a series that doesn’t care if jokes are appropriate, as long as they’re funny.

As well as the launch trailer, below you can see a video from Eurogamer showing comparing the censored anal probe and abortion scenes that Ubisoft chose to cut from the game in some regions (including the UK) with the splash screen that replaced them.

Note that the PC version of the game in the UK is not censored.

Here you go: