360 German version of The Darkness to have a lot of cuts

Posted Jun 29, 2007 at 8:21AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: 2K Games, Germany, Starbreeze

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Bad news for Xbox 360 owners in Germany looking forward to enjoying Starbreeze's and 2K Games' The Darkness. The localized version of the dark FPS title will not only have the Nazi symbolism and imagery removed, but also a few changes to the actual gameplay that could detract from the overall experience.

So what's cut out, and what's changed? Besides all the stuff that pertains to Nazism, four of the Darkling kill methods got the axe in the translation. And if you've been looking forward to having your Darklings chow down on some fresh, EXP-rich hearts, the animation itself got the cut. It was replaced with one that has your Darklings sucking down on souls (which appear as green mist) instead.

It's a bit disappointing, isn't it? Although, to be fair, they could have done a lot worse and banned the entire game instead given everything that happened recently in the industry. And if you really want to enjoy in its pure, unedited form, one could always easily import.

However, note that the act itself could have you spending some not-so-quality jail time for up to three years. Ouch.

Via Areagames

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# ... — Guest 2007-06-29 09:59

ahahaha..ahahah..that sucks.

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# ? — Guest 2007-06-29 10:11

Isn't the PS3 blog the WRONG blog to post those news?

Unless this also applies to the PS3 version, in which case the post should be edited accordingly...

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# 666 — Guest 2007-06-29 11:30

Agreed!

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# poopnuggets! — hush404 2007-06-29 12:09

Agrredds..

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# Ouch — Guest 2007-06-29 12:26

God bless america

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# What!? — Guest 2007-06-29 12:45

You could do time for importing a game! Wow. Are you serious!?

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# Yeps... — Guest 2007-06-29 14:29

... you CAN spend time in Jail for Importing or selling the Uncut in Germany because of the "Hackenkreuz" Signs inside the Game. Thats stricktly forbidden by german law (damn Nazi´s) and so -> Illegal.



Simple as that.

Got mine today. Fine game :-D :-D :-D

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# lol — devildude 2007-06-29 14:43

it's all hitler fault they goona blame him lol

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# .. — Guest 2007-06-30 00:57

They should ban it (like GoW), instead of cut this beautiful game :)



Btw. the World War 2 Shooter "Hour of Victory" doesn't have any Nazism-Signs, too. Wtf.. afaik those Signs are allowed in historical Games, Movies and Books.

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# Ehm... — Guest 2007-06-30 11:28

...no?



"Those" Signs are not allowed in Germany.

They can be shown in Movies related to the World War´s und Dokumentaries. Books... yeah. Okay.



But in games, those signs are forbidden.





PEACE

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