Fallout 3 Censored for AU, and Everywhere Else Too

Fallout 3 Censored for AU, and Everywhere Else Too
[Sep 09, 2008, 7:46 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Censors Force Fallout 3 Changes on Edge Online has a surprising revelation about the news that Fallout 3 was rejected by Australian censors (story) later to be approved for sale down under after the editing of some of the game's drug references (story). It turns out the edited version resubmitted down under will be the version that's released globally, so everyone will be subject to the Australian standards for adult games, which is that there are no such things. They quote Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines on the topic: "An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names. To avoid confusion among people in different territories, we decided to make those substitutions in all versions of the game, in all territories. I didn't want people continuing to assume the version in Australia was some altered version when it's not. There are no references to real world drugs in any version of Fallout 3."

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Sep 9, 2008, 22:58

Asmodai

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Sep 9, 2008, 22:58

Asmodai

"Fuck Australia."

Or perhaps fuck Australia's ratings and classifications board?

Anyway, the original games did not feature real world drugs, they had fictional drug names like Mentats.
I'm not really sure why they decided to go with crack or whatever, but this censored version is closer to original fallout canon.

The answer is "Fuck one Attorney General who stands in the way of allowing a R18 rating for games". Michael Atkinson, AG of South Australia.

As an Australian who was going to import the full game, I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to the rest of the world for the actions of one FUCKED IN THE HEAD RELIGIOUS ZEALOT.

I cannot believe that the actions of one man have in fact tainted this product for every person who will ever play it, even if the changes (drug names) are minor.

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