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[kryptonyte1]

So why was FarCry banned in Germany? I read the official post here: http://www.farcry.ubi.com/

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Wednesday 03.31.2004 Far Cry banned in Germany




In accordance with German law, www.farcry.de and its forums have been pulled down following Far Cry's ban (US/UK version) in Germany. They will remain shut until the German version of Far Cry is released, which has the official youth rating by the German USK.
We apologize to our German community for any inconvenience this may cause and hope things will resume their normal course shortly.

[kryptonyte1]

So why was FarCry banned in Germany? I read the official post here: http://www.farcry.ubi.com/

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Wednesday 03.31.2004 Far Cry banned in Germany




In accordance with German law, www.farcry.de and its forums have been pulled down following Far Cry's ban (US/UK version) in Germany. They will remain shut until the German version of Far Cry is released, which has the official youth rating by the German USK.
We apologize to our German community for any inconvenience this may cause and hope things will resume their normal course shortly.

[NaturalBornGoth]

We have this stupid youth protection law that is very restrictive about violence in interactive entertainment. The german version of Far Cry got a USK18 rating (no one under the age of 18 is allowed to buy the game). In order to get this rating Crytek had to remove the ragdoll effects of dead bodies, so that you can't play around with them anymore. They also had to remove the blood effects of bodies that are floating on the water.

As it turns out these removed features could be reactivated by some file manipulation in the sold version of Far Cry, which wasn't possible with the version that was used to evaluate the rating. Because of that it was banned (which means that the game may not be advertised anymore). Ubisoft Germany will release a new version that cannot be reverted to an uncut version anymore that will get the inital USK18 rating and which can be advertised again.

[Moleculor]

I used to live in Germany. To give you an idea of the extremes they go to to censor stuff... did you ever play the ORIGINAL Command 'n Conquer? The one with Einstein going back in time and 'erasing' Hitler?

Yeah. They took out the part in the video where it showed the past, so they wouldn't have to show Hitler AT ALL, AND they recolored ALL the blood in the game to be black, and called all the human/dog units 'androids'.

They do this to ALL violent games.

[NaturalBornGoth]

Yeah. You want another example? How about "Soldier of Fortune 2"?

The German version took place in a parallel universe where every single person was a robot that bled oil. But the storyline was the same... yep... i'm ****ting you not. You had to stop the the bad robots from killing the good robots with a biological weapon! It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.

Thankfully adults can get the original version without too many problems. I don't even think that anyone was stupid enough to buy this robot-SoF2. But it existed... which is bad enough.

[codecypher]

Ok, is it just me or is Germany being just silly about this. Its just a game (not even one made by us "evil" Americans). And, BTW...
didn't Germany start both World Wars?

[NaturalBornGoth]

Well... you guys have your share of silliness either. In Germany it's violence that freaks out certain authorities, in the U.S. it's sex. This leaves the question what is worse: heads that are blown apart or naked boobies?

[FireFort23]

Seems to me that the German government goes through a lot of trouble just to do what Hitler did - propaganda and censorship. Granted, they're probably doing this for what SEEMS like a good reason, but why censor their past?

Hitler DID order the murders of millions of people. Hitler WAS Germany's leader. Rather than try to hide their past, why not use it as an example of what NOT to do in the future?

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[OnCleSAm7]

Dude codecypher, are you stupid or what? That's probably why they are all doing that stuff... It's not about evil americans at all, it's about keeping the youth away from bad influences

WAKE UP

[NaturalBornGoth]

Our past (whatever that means... i was born 30 years after WW2, i sure don't relate to those times) isn't censored in general. Quite the opposite is the fact. We are being reminded of the things that happened back then almost too often. It's just that they don't wanna have that kind of stuff in video games (films are no problem), because they consider them as toys for kids and not as an artform. That's BS, i know, but that' how these authorities see it.

OnCleSAm7 is right... although i, and many many other Germans, don't see how shielding kids from the bad things in life will do them any good.