I think the team learned its lesson with Vice City, though.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? Now you can use a chainsaw to chop people up (blood splatters on the screen and all), the "car rocking" is more explicit (it has dialog now), you can buy a strip bar to get a private show, chop people up with helicopter blades, shoot limbs off, and lets not forget the chain-gun.
The silly (okay, not silly; stupid) Office of Film and Literature Classification decided that while blowing up hideous lifelike monsters and taking showers in their still-warm blood while happily reloading your rocket launcher for the next one is okay, a bit of harmless hormonal-tension-releasing activity like paying somebody to climb into your car and make it rock from side to side is not. -_- So GTA3 had to be trimmed down before they lifted the ban on it being sold in Australia. I think the team learned its lesson with Vice City, though.