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Report: Dead Space Banned In Germany, China And Japan
by David Jenkins
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September 5, 2008
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Survival horror Dead Space has been banned in Germany, Japan and China, according to comments attributed to Electronic Arts community manager Andrew Green.
Consumer website Destructoid says that according to Green, the game is banned in all three countries, presumably over concerns over the high levels of violence. Although EA has not traditionally been associated with explicitly violent titles, Dead Space producer Chuck Beaver recently spoke to Gamasutra concerning the challenges involved in making a push for less family-friendly arenas.
It is unclear whether EA will seek to censor the game in order to have it published in all territories, with company representatives unavailable for comment at time of press.
Unusually, the game has had its North American release date pushed forward twice on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, most recently from October 24th to October 14th. The PC version is due on October 20th.
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Kirk and crew sabotage the computer running the lottery and force the populace to face war for what it really is, ugly and evil.
Now back to violence in games, if you really think abou it, if you're going to have violence in a game it should be ugly and evil. It should twist and turn your stomach. This would do several things, to say the least make violence an M rating and give a little didactic component to our audience.
The irony is that if you change red blood to green then shooting someone in a game is ok...hmmm where's Kirk when you need him?
Unless this thing really is more horrifically violent and disturbing than previews have let on? I mean, how bad could it really be?
All due respect to the legacy, but Star Trek is the perfect example of naive and juvenile political/social analysis.
People do grasp that war is horrible. What some people don't grasp is that, very frequently, war is necessary.
In any case: it's not as if these countries are bastions of freedom and independent thought. Does this news really surprise anyone?
You're retarded dood. That Star Trek episode is a perfect example, there are many types of examples that can be given.
The point that was being given is that by pulling back violence in games we are basically white washing violence to be more palatable and clean.
As an industry, we need to decide, like all other medias, do we "tone down violence" and if we do what does that mean? Can violence be toned down? If there is a game where someone is shot, having green blood, why is that acceptable?
Currently, removing red blood makes it acceptable, its such a strange notion really. Remove the blood and we can ship at a lower mature rating and ship in x countries.
Would it not be more responsible to actually show violence as close to reality as possible, not to promote but to viscerally expose the masses and protect younger viewers from being exposed to such material....
Unless you live in a war zone, I doubt very highly that people understand either notion. For example, how many people have actually gone on liveleak.com and watched a beheading or an Apache blow to bits Al Queda insurgents? I think thats the minority of people out there.
And that exactly was the archetype message in that episode of Star Trek; we live in a bubble unexposed to the terror that people in war zones live in...
I'm interested in what EA's response will be. If they decide to go ahead and keep the game as is, I'm definitely going to pick it up now. Originally I wasn't sure on the title, but I highly disdain censorship and will buy it on principal. Perhaps a bit of a foolish reason to buy a game but hey... I've got to "stick it to censorship" somehow.
atleast Germany doesn't treat sex in movies and games a higher threat to children and young people than violence, as they do in your country.
Further nobody talked about cencorship in general, just adjusted versions to fit country specific rating systems, so please stop the drama. Thanks.