Different Country, Different Game Content

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday June 11, 2003 @02:28AM from the paddington-bears-added-for-peru? dept.

Thanks to EvilAvatar for finding a registration-not-required (via NPR) version of a LA Times article about changing game content for different cultures. As the article describes, "Red blood in a game sold in the United States turns green in Australia. A topless character in a European title acquires a bikini in the U.S. Human enemies in a U.S. game morph into robots in Germany. Violent sex scenes in a Japanese game disappear in the American version." There's also discussion of localizing for cultural reasons, citing Animal Crossing, which has added "..folding lawn chairs, inflatable wading pools, tiki torches and pink flamingos" for the US version.

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Wolfenstein by cubedbee · 2003-06-11 02:35 · Score: 4, Funny

I wonder how the Wolfenstein games were altered for Germany? Take away the nazis and the blood and you don't have much of a game
In other words... by NetDanzr · 2003-06-11 02:48 · Score: 4, Funny

Americans are overly violent, while Europeans are oversexed. That's it; I'm moving to Europe!
Re:Green blood? by coaxial · 2003-06-11 04:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Have our neighbors down under become infested with Klingons?

Dude! Klingons have magenta blood. Vulcans have green blood.

(placing the L-sign on my forhead) LOOOSER! :P