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Dead Island: Riptide (http://joystiq.com/game/dead-island-riptide), like the original Dead Island, won't be released in Germany, home base of publisher Deep Silver. Riptide creative producer Sebastian Reichert said at Gamescom he "wouldn't bet (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/16/dead-island-riptide-producer-hopes-game-releases-in-germany-bu/)" on the game being available in Germany, but now he's stated it officially.
"We have no censored version of the game," Reichert told PCGamesN (http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/dead-island-riptide-dev-you-can-buy-gears-war-germany-not-dead-island-whats-difference). "So we cannot release it in Germany. It feels f*cking awkward to have one of the most successful games in years and nobody in your country knows it."
We double-checked with publisher Deep Silver to make sure there wasn't anything lost in translation and a company representative confirmed Riptide wouldn't be available in Germany. The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbskontrolle (USK) must follow government-enforced criteria (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/17/achtung-how-to-find-germanys-list-of-edited-games/) that, along with other elements, note a game can't have extreme violence against human-like enemies.
Under a microscope, the USK's determination of such things can get awfully fiddly. It was a surprise back in 2011 when Epic's Gears of War 3 passed the censors (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/14/gears-of-war-3-classified-in-germany-without-edits/), while no other installment in the series had made the grade. It wasn't just a surprise to us, but to Epic itself (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/gears-of-war-3-rating-in-germany-pleasantly-shocked-epic-presi/).http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Dead Island: Riptide not washing up in Germany (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/30/dead-island-riptide-not-washing-up-in-germany/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Dead Island: Riptide (http://joystiq.com/game/dead-island-riptide), like the original Dead Island, won't be released in Germany, home base of publisher Deep Silver. Riptide creative producer Sebastian Reichert said at Gamescom he "wouldn't bet (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/16/dead-island-riptide-producer-hopes-game-releases-in-germany-bu/)" on the game being available in Germany, but now he's stated it officially.
"We have no censored version of the game," Reichert told PCGamesN (http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/dead-island-riptide-dev-you-can-buy-gears-war-germany-not-dead-island-whats-difference). "So we cannot release it in Germany. It feels f*cking awkward to have one of the most successful games in years and nobody in your country knows it."
We double-checked with publisher Deep Silver to make sure there wasn't anything lost in translation and a company representative confirmed Riptide wouldn't be available in Germany. The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbskontrolle (USK) must follow government-enforced criteria (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/17/achtung-how-to-find-germanys-list-of-edited-games/) that, along with other elements, note a game can't have extreme violence against human-like enemies.
Under a microscope, the USK's determination of such things can get awfully fiddly. It was a surprise back in 2011 when Epic's Gears of War 3 passed the censors (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/14/gears-of-war-3-classified-in-germany-without-edits/), while no other installment in the series had made the grade. It wasn't just a surprise to us, but to Epic itself (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/22/gears-of-war-3-rating-in-germany-pleasantly-shocked-epic-presi/).http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Dead Island: Riptide not washing up in Germany (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/30/dead-island-riptide-not-washing-up-in-germany/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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