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The Darkness undergoes major German makeover

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It’s no secret that Germany has some “interesting” policies regarding gaming. Many games that they consider “extremely violent”, and just about all games that feature Nazi symbolism are immediately banned in the land of the bratwursts. For these reasons, it looks like The Darkness is going to have a few changes for it’s German release:

  • All Nazi symbolism has been removed from the title. Understandable, considering their past that they aren’t particularly proud of.
  • Four of the kill methods possessed by the darklings have been removed.
  • Your tenticles will no longer eat hearts. Now they will suck out the souls, which are represented by a yellowish-green fog.

That’s absolutely weak. I can understand the removal of Nazi symbolism, but to remove the gore? That was just the German Government being priggish about the whole ordeal. If I lived in Germany, I’d have my copy of the game imported.

[areagames.de] <– It’s in German, so good luck.

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Posted in Announcements, News on June 29th, 2007

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