Source: Kotaku
Japan has removed the blood from PS3’s new killer title, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune!
Whaaaa!!!
Did gaming just take a giant leap backward? I really thought we were over this censorship-after-a-game-is-released crap. Isn’t that what parental controls are for? Parents should decide what games are right for their kids, not the developers, and it doesn’t matter what country.
But I digress.
Read more after the break!
Anyway, what’s even more frustrating for our gamers overseas, is that it has nothing to do with the game disk iteself. They could even import it from the US, and it STILL would be blood free.
Why? The save file system.
Somehow the game knows to censor itself on Japanese systems, and there’s no way around it. Even trying to use a US save file will result in corrupted data.
Damn censors.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 reverend_k // Nov 26, 2007 at 2:06 pm
why? I didn’t think that the Japanese had as big of a thing about video game violence as here in the US. Hell, they don’t even have Jack Thompson over there!
2 mexicanguy // Nov 26, 2007 at 4:44 pm
wtf no one care if there’s if there’s blood that sude get more good games for the ps3 bevind do the blood make the trash talk more fun
3 Olly Newport // Nov 26, 2007 at 5:26 pm
That’s really weird!
4 Sean "rothbart" Workman // Nov 27, 2007 at 1:08 am
Sorry to correct, but this isn’t “censorship-after-a-game-is-released”, this was built in from the beginning. If I take my US-purchased copy of Uncharted and play it on a Japanese PS3, sans-patching, there will be no blood. They are censoring based on a region code somehow stored in the console itself. Likewise, if I bought Uncharted in Japan and played it on my US PS3, I would get blood.
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