If you live in Germany and plan on getting the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, you may want to consider importing it.
German politicians may have nixed the proposed ban on violent video games earlier this year, but that doesn't mean the country is all hunky-dory with its blood and guts. Next month's Call of Duty: Black Ops - almost certainly one of the biggest games of the year - has been censored in its German release.
So what's been taken out? According to CODFeed, the violence has been expectedly trimmed down. As far as the campaign is concerned, a scene "where an enemy is shot in slow motion with copious amounts of gore" has been tamed down, and one involving the violent torture of a prisoner has been removed entirely. Meanwhile, explosions will no longer cause limb loss on the part of characters. The game has also been cleansed of what Germany deems "anti-constitutional symbols," whatever that means.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104008-Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-Censored-in-Germany
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Man, Germans need o take this stuff less seriously. They're just games.
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ReplyDelete"anti-constitutional symbols" must be swastikas.
ReplyDeleteThey realize it's just a game right?
ReplyDeleteToo bad for Germany. Games are the best education we have.
ReplyDeleteaww sucks for those who live there.. id immigrate just to play lol
ReplyDeleteI'm so tired for all these censorships. It's not like we're going to go pick up a gun and shoot down everybody, just because of games.
ReplyDeleteThey're getting so pedantic about crap aye.
ReplyDeleteI cannot stand censorship like this. It just burns me up!
ReplyDeleteI wish they'd censor real life instead of video games. The type of graphic violence that occurs in the real world is just incomparable to video games.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't see them banning war any time soon. Just video games.
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ReplyDeleteWow didn't know it was like that over in Germany. I would import the game as well.
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ReplyDeleteha. why does this even have to happen. jesus.
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