A censored version was later released with a M rating. Originally released unrated to some retail stores in Australia, when it was picked up for publishing in Australia it was banned because of gross, abhorrent content. Shellshock 2: Blood Trails. Silent Hill: Homecoming. Banned because of a scene of very disturbing content involving drilling into body parts.
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life. Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Banned because of high impact violence involving graphic depictions of dismemberment. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Originally banned because of violence involving graphic depictions of mutilation. Edited world wide due to the insignificant change that was done the name of morphine being changed to Med-x. Originally banned because of frequent and gory violence, Warner bros.
Originally banned because of the use of prostitutes. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Had its classification revoked following the Hot Coffee controversy. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Pre-Censored before submission because of the use of prostitutes. Pre-censored before submission because of sex scenes involving prostitutes. A patch was later released to completely uncensor the PS3 version and the version. Originally banned due to relentlessly graphic and detailed depictions of violence and gore.
Sexy Poker. Originally banned from being released on WiiWare due to nudity being used as an incentive. Edited worldwide to replace nudity with revealing under garments and this edition received an M rating. Shellshock: Nam ' Tender Loving Care. Originally banned because of disturbing and graphic scenes involving torture.
Australia got the same version as Europe. Bully including Bully: Scholarship Edition. Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now. Banned because of high impact violence.
In June , the game was allowed to be sold again online; however, retail sales of this game still banned. Banned in the city of Barueri because it uses music from a Brazilian composer without permission. Requiem: Avenging Angel.
Banned for "smearing the image of China and the Chinese army" despite the fact that the game presents China as a quasi-protagonist.
Football Manager Banned for recognizing Tibet as an independent country. An edited version was later released globally. Banned for portraying Tibet, Sinkiang, and Manchuria as independent countries and Taiwan as under Japanese control.
This game was not released in Denmark because of a law prohibiting marketing for energy drinks, which is a central theme of the game.
Condemned 2: Bloodshot. The Darkness Uncut European Xbox version. Silent Hill: Homecoming Uncut. Scarface: The World is Yours Uncut. Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines English version Banned because of a fictional U. Already prior to the ban, several retail stores began removing said title from their shelves. Pokemon GO. Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkuni. Is a "shot yourself in the foot" joke crass here?
Germany wins the blue ribbon for Europe's most intense game restrictions. While changing a human to a zombie can get a game to pass muster in the likes of the UK or France, it'll have no such luck in Deutschland. Given that Dead Rising is all about zombies, it's no surprise that this series has seen repeated bans in Germany. Dead Rising 3 is the latest victim, expunged from the Xbox One launch line-up in this country.
This pretty-goddamn-violent zombie thrasher is considered tolerable in many places, since your main target are fantasy legions of undead monsters. However, Germany's Bundeprfstelle fr jugendgefhrende Medien the gaming police places heavy restrictions on games where you kill any human or "human-like" enemies, so zombies qualify. Then again, Gears of War 3 was deemed acceptable without edits, so I can't pretend to understand the logic. Two for the price of one here. In January , the government of Pakistan banned Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Medal of Honor: Warfighter in one fell swoop, saying they "show the country in a very poor light.
They probably should have tried to convince the country's game retailers to accept the ban, though, or at least told them about it. On the day of the ban, the owner of Islamabad's biggest game store claimed to have not even heard about it, and another anonymous shop-owner said "The nationalists and the religious ones don't like [these games] but I'm not going to stop selling them.
Finally, a game that wasn't banned over political outrage. Just lesbian sex! Wait, is that better, or worse? Either way, back in Singapore banned the first Mass Effect because it contains an optional scene of lady Shepard and Liara T'soni gettin' bizzah. While in many places this was met with newscaster pearl-clutching and adolescent fist-pumps, the ladies' "kissing and caressing" translated to "gratuitous sex" in Singapore, which barred it from release. Not that the ban lasted long.
Originally, it went through because the nation didn't have a proper video game rating system, making it harder to judge degrees of debauchery. However, when the ban shockingly resulted in backlash, officials used the country's movie rating system instead, dubbing Mass Effect an M18 and lifting the ban only a few days after setting it.
Now the people of Singapore can enjoy softcore lady-on-lady action to their heart's content. If Iran and Pakistan's examples are any indication, our gaming brethren in the Middle East sure know their way around a game ban. Saudi Arabian gamers are no exception, because even in the face of strict content restrictions and fines for playing banned titles, many manage to sneak prohibited games anyway.
One good example is God of War 2, which was banned for sexual content and possibly the use of the word God in the title upon release.
However, it's still very much available for players who know where to look. Satisfied as the nation's moralizers were with the decision, gamers weren't pleased, and they weren't deterred either. Speaking to Kotaku about ways of circumventing the ban, Saudi Arabian user Alaa A explained that retailers still sell black market copies of the game, just packaged and shrink-wrapped as something else.
Congratulations, Alaa, you deserve a go at that fantastical debauchery. Current page: Page 1. When Manhunt 2 was released though in it was a bit of a special case, the original had been mistakenly linked to a murder case in England where the game was thought to have enticed a young man into murdering another and suffered a severe public backlash in the United Kingdoms.
Ireland's Irish Film Classification Office rarely actually restricts games allowing PEGI and BBFC to handle decisions it made a special case for Manhunt 2 though and the game was banned for "gross, unrelenting, and gratuitous violence.
In it, Dante essentially travels through Hell chasing his dead lover through the Nine Circles. It's bloody, violent, it's got heavy religious themes and full frontal nudity. Honestly, it's surprising more countries didn't end up banning it, it ended up with Malaysia being the main source of discontent over the game and one week after it's release ended up banning it for offensive depictions of cruelty, hellish visions, and well essentially every other single moment of the game.
If it had been possible, it likely would have been banned for being a rip-off as well. Normally when a country bans a game they only prevent it from being sold, New Zealand, however, doesn't believe in half-assed methods. The Office of Film and Literature Classification decides a game is questionable in all cases it becomes not only illegal to be sold by retailers but to own, possess, or import.
A game about girls who contract a virus that makes them turn into weapons upon becoming "aroused. Honestly, the game plays like it too. With jiggle physics and "PLOT" at an all time high, it appears like the creators of Senran Kagura have found their comfort zone. Pakistan, upon seeing that comfort zone, decided they wanted nothing to do with the girls of Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni. They decided to ban the game because of sexual content and excessive themes of glorifying gay romance seriously the game is all about Yuri if you couldn't tell.
You can still buy the game digitally there though. It's surprising to learn that a staple of gaming wasn't well received by someone, when people tell me they didn't enjoy Star Fox 64 , for example, I look at them like they just kicked my dog into the path of a cement truck hurtling down a hill.
Which is exactly what the entire nation of Singapore did when the government there tried to ban Half-Life in Originally banned for violence, the government actually raided a few locations seizing copies of the game, gamers in Singapore reacted by starting online petitions and sending strongly worded letters to their local authorities, which for a change actually paid off.
Realized banning a game a full year after it was already out may have been a poor choice and worried about a marked drop in income from LAN hosting sites and video game retailers rescinded the ban after only a week. South Korea and North Korea have a complex political relationship that can be summed up with "Interesting" if you're an outsider, and "Horrible" if you live in either one of those nations.
With the insane troglodyte that leads the Northern Nation half a step from a poorly planned attempt at world domination, being South Korea is probably a lot like living in the bad part of town and being completely aware your neighbour is a serial killer.
Which is why just to be safe South Korea banned Homefront , a game about North Korea actually somehow managing to take over the USA and making themselves the antagonists of the game.
Honestly though, with all the things banned in North Korea, it's not like they'd have been able to play it to find out either. God of War is brutal, violent, bloody, there's full frontal nudity around every corner and even a few mini-games where you nail nubile young Greeks.
The game however actually somehow managed to avoid most nations Banhammer The UAE has a tendency to ban a lot of games, and to then campaign that other nations follow suit. So it's not surprising that God of War makes their ban list. Especially considering the heavy religious themes featuring in the game, not a fan of a game having the word God in the title and even less pleased with the depictions of the Greek pantheon the UAE decided they didn't want it sold there. It's not illegal to own a copy, however, if you can manage to track one down.
Venezuela is a mess right now, and it was a mess back in as well when the Government decided to ban any game featuring shooting in it making them the first country to completely ban violent video games making their manufacturing, distribution, selling, rental, exhibition and use illegal.
Whether a step in the right or wrong direction, the ban has been criticized for being extremely vague and unclear on what the actual penalties in relation to the games are. The invention of Napalm was a terrible thing that ruined the country side of Vietnam, creations like Agent Orange have been banned from use in warfare ever since due to its horrible side effects.
Much like how in Japan video games are sometimes altered to remove images or themes of nuclear war and how in Germany swastika's and Hitler are normally changed from the original product, Vietnam doesn't normally like anything related to the chemical that destroyed their homes.
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