List of Regionally Censored Video Games - Multiplatform

Multiplatform

• Resident Evil 4 - In Japan, all versions of Resident Evil 4 do not show decapitations or various other portrayals of gory death.
• Silent Hill Homecoming - The game had difficulties in passing censors in some countries before it could go on sale. The Australian classification board, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), refused to classify the game, due to "impact violence and excessive blood effects". The objectionable scenes included various body parts being drilled into, as well as the bisection of a character by an enemy. This had the effect of banning the game for sale in the country, and representatives for publisher Atari mentioned that they would be asking Konami to tone down the violence to allow the game to receive the needed MA15+ rating for its sale to be permitted in early 2009. The German version of the game was also postponed to 2009 in order for cuts to be made to pass the German censors.
• Fallout 3 - In the Japanese version the player no longer has the opportunity to detonate the nuclear bomb in the centre of Megaton, this is due to the similarities between this and the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also in the Japanese version, FatMan was renamed Nuka-Launcher also because "FatMan" was the codename of the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki.
• Call of Duty: World at War - The game had difficulties in passing censors in some countries before it could go on sale. The German version of game has removed the gore and gibing on shoot and explosions, the swastikas are replaced with iron cross and the Hitler in the Berlin pictures is replaced with Luftwaffe officer. This game has not been released in Japan.
• Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude - In the North American console versions, the game was censored to receive the ESRB M rating, while the PC version was released in both censored (M-rated) and uncensored (AO-rated) versions in North America. The European versions were uncensored on all three platforms it was released for.

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - In all versions of the game, there was a hidden sex mini game that was there for the developers to test physics. The mini game was fully animated and allowed you to move the character up and down to have sex. This was never intended to be found, however cheat devices for the PlayStation 2 version, and mods for the PC version enabled it. The game was then banned in many countries and in United States was forced to be rerated as an AO game. Many retailers pulled the game from stores, such as Meijer and Walmart, due to policies of not carrying AO games. Rockstar pulled the rest of the copies and the game was unobtainable for a few months. The game was finally re-released on PC and PlayStation 2 labeled as "Version 2" on PC, and "Greatest Hits" on PS2. This version fully deletes the mini game and is impossible to gain access to it. The PC version also has modding disabled, and any attempt to mod it will crash the game. However, mods have since been developed to bypass this, so the mini-game was playable again. In addition this version on PS2 disables the use of cheat disks like Code Breaker and Gameshark. Also on the PS2 version several bugfixes and patches from the PC version are applied to this, so Version 2 was announced by Rockstar as the "Definitive" version of SA to play. This is the version that will later be re- released on Microsoft Xbox in 2006, Microsoft Xbox 360 in 2007 and Sony PlayStation 3 in 2012.