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Clive Barker's Jericho will not be edited for USK
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 27th September 2007
Clive Barker is famous for writing gory horror such as the Hellraiser series, a tradition which Jericho follow in.
Now, we bring you the news that the game will not be edited for the German market and that Codemasters does not plan to appeal the decision.
The USK, Germany's rating body for media, originally refused to classify the game because of the excessive gore and bloody presentation of the game. Without classification, the game cannot be sold to under 18s and cannot be advertised at all, something which deters many stores from stocking the game.
"Following a review by the USK ratings board, which declined to give an official rating, Codemasters has decided not to change the artistic vision of the renowned author and film-maker Clive Barker though cuts and extensive changes," Said Codemasters in a statement to GI.biz today.
"Codemasters respects Mr Barker's creative ideas, despite the German distribution and marketing consequences for the title.
"Therefore Codemasters will release only the PC version of Clive Barker's Jericho in its original form for adult gamers and Clive Barker fans," Said a spokesperson.
The game, which is due out on October 26th and with an Xbox Live Demo and PlayStation Network demo available over the next few days, has been shown to use graphic violence and a constant dark atmosphere.
Barker, who gained mainstream success after penning the Hellraiser novels and subsequent films, has emerged as a figurehead for serious gamers recently and has waged a one-man war against the popular opinion that games do not count as an artform.
Has media censoring gone too far or are governments right to protect us from violent images? Discuss the matter in the forums, if you dare.
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Silly buggers.
Considering the general political outlook in the USA at the moment, your assertion that it is "being overrun by communists" is quite untrue. It could even be shown that capitalism has never been stronger than it is now.
Great games in the past have ben crippled in the past, such as all Quake and UT games, in Quake IV not less than 90% of the textures have been replaced. However, that does not mean that communism or facism is growing in Germany. ;)
No...
Then my little brothers would have the option of playing manhunt. They shouldn't be allowed to play manhunt. It will scare them and kids at that age are very very impressionable. I know that parents should be the ones that decide if they would let their kids play a game, but in reality, kids deceive and trick parents/grandparents/minders. I remember getting my granny to buy me GTA 2 for example. She didn't know any better and the staff in the store didn't bat and eyelid.