Ok, so wipe your eyes. Let go of the control. I know that Halo 3 came out. I know. I know. Just put it down and listen. The world is still moving. Things are still happening. Even though there really isn’t anything I want to do right now besides play more of the Halo 3 campaign (good like ice cream!), we have serious business from Germany to discuss.
Jericho, that super horror game from the Codemaster dudes has, surprise, not been given a rating by the USK, The German Review Board that will refuses to give a rating to any game that lets a man stab a dude or chainsaw a dude or Wii-strangle a dude. And Codemaster is refusing to change the game in response. A statement from Codemaster, via Next-Gen:
“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 filmmaker Clive Barker though cuts and extensive changes. Codemasters respects Mr Barker’s creative ideas, despite the German distribution and marketing consequences for the title. Therefore Codemasters will release the PC version of Clive Barker’s Jericho in its original form on the 26th of October for adult gamers and Clive Barker fans.”
Clive Barker’s renowned? Who know? All this rating board and editing game mess gives me the ingestions. What happened to games that were fun and kid-friendly? Remember Mario? Nothing bad happened in Mario. Except he burned turtles and stomped on them and eat Mushrooms and stole a lot of gold coins and kicked his enemy into a fiery pit of lava. But, besides that, Mario is the perfect role model! Take that, German review board!