Just an off-topic thread about a subject I am pretty curious about.

I will start first. Living in Singapore, widely known as the country that bans chewing gums, canes SOBs for vandalism and hangs people for drug-related offences, censorship and banning of games are surprisingly rare.

Banned/censored games

Mass Effect - homosexuality [Ban lifted]

The Darkness - excessive violence [Ban lifted for Playstation only]

And that's it?

Some games like all GTA games cannot be bought online. All games including the ones only for 18+ can be bought in a game store, provided you show your ID.

So what are the games censored or banned in your country? Leave your comments below.

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Well I've lived in 3 different countries (Portugal, Netherlands and now Spain), and none of them have restricted/banned games, at least I didn't noticed any. The only difference I noticed was the price differences, nothing else.

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bully

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Here in Brazil they banned CS 1.6 and Bully, i believe.(but everyone plays them anyways)

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Here in Brazil they banned CS 1.6 and Bully, i believe.(but everyone plays them anyways)

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Rapelay i think

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All Rockstar games are banned here. Although, you can still find it if you know where to look ;)

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Only one I can think of is all of the Grand Theft Auto games. No idea why they don't sell it here.

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In Finland there is no banned video games

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We have a lot of censored games in germany. I make a list of just a few pc games, but there are way more.

Half Life (complete series)
Fallout (complete series)
Baldurs Gate 1+2 (not the enhanced Editions)
Bioshock
Borderlands
Call of Duty 1,2,MW,MW2,BO,BO2,WaW
Counter Strike
Dead Space 2
The Darkness 1+2
F.E.A.R (complete series)
Flatout (complete series)
GTA 1,2,3,VC,SA
Left 4 Dead 1+2
Max Payne 3
Painkiller (complete series)
Portal
Prototype 2
Red Fraction (complete series)
Sleeping Dogs
Turok 1+2
Systemshock 2
Saints Row 1+2+3
every game with Nazi symbolism (in movies it's allowed but games not. Great logic)

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Let's face it: 95% of all games that contain blood and gore are censored here in Germany. But hey, we protect our children with that law and look, we have no suicides (lie), mobbing (lie), robbery (lie), random voilence (lie) and for sure no fucked up kids running amok in their schools (big lie).

Thanks, goverment!

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Manhunt, Prototype, Sniper Elite NZA1&2, poor Germany. :(

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The Dead Rising franchise isn't available at all. :(

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As long as I know we in Belgium have no banned games.

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Sniper Elite 2. Or was that only Zombies?

Anyway, when there's some sale at get loaded go there's big fat "this game can't be redeemed in Belgium and few other coutires" note.

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As far as I know, Belgium doesn't ban games. If it's not available, it's perhaps a move from the publisher. My cousin own and play sniper elite zombies. I've done a research and see nothing about that game being not available in my country.

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I know Get Loaded Go didn't allow selling Sniper Elite 2 to Belgium (and Germany, maybe some other country too) when they were having those bundles of theirs.

Don't know details through. Maybe it ended, or it was a partial censorship (heard it was actually Kill Hitler DLC that was banned and you can play base game; or there are no NAZI zombies in that zombie sniper, they are just zombies).

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train simulator

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What... I... I don't... I don't even what to say.
I live in the UK so I don't think there are any banned or censored games.

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Every game from 2K (except for Civ V) and Rockstar is banned in my country (stupid anti violent games law... that nobody pays atention to it... except for those companies...)

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Manhunt and Bully.

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I'm from Israel. We have no banned games :0
The games here are imported from Europe or the US, so if there is censorship it depends on the origin country.

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Mexico here, no bans of any kind, actually i don't think we have any censorship laws related to digital media; a good place to be a Gamer.

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DARK SOUL

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Why?

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If it is like me, I think it's only regionlock because of gfwl

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dark souls :(

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None here. Argentina.

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No banned games in Canada that I know of.

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In India Fallout : New Vegas is banned on Steam because there is a 3-headed cow called "BRAMHIN" in the game.
and in India Bramhin is a Caste in HINDU Religion.

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I know of The Haunted Hells Reach, Blacklight Tango Down in AU.

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Postal 2 for it's controversial content.

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US.. and as far as I am aware of.. nothing. So I had to do a search and the most I can find is a wiki.. of course who knows how trustworthy that is right?

That being..
"In 2005, due to the revelation that one model was 17 at the time of production, The Guy Game was "banned" due to existing pornography laws.[70]
Also, an arcade game, Sonic Blast Man, was recalled and banned (due to federal law prohibiting resale of recalled items) from American arcades due to safety issues surrounding the game's punching bag controller"

As far as censored ones.. far as I am aware of only Manhunt 2. Then again far as I am aware of, with the exception of the dev copies. All retail versions of it are censored. I remember reading about a major outcry about it and how the devs worked on censoring their stuff before making the retail copies.

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South park: the stick of truth will be censored in europe(7 scenes). Yaaay.

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Console only, PC will have uncensored version

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( I wanted to put a line here about PC Master Race )

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Unless you live in few censor-loving countries like Germany.

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Dark Souls, Metal Gear franchise...

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