Codemasters Refuses to Edit Jericho for Germany
By Shawn on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 at 2:59 PM PST In Codemasters, Computer, Games
Yesterday we featured the news that Germany has denied Clive Barker’s Jericho a rating, preventing it from being advertised or sold in the country on the Xbox 360 or PS3. Codemasters has responded to the USK, Germany’s rating board and has refused to revise the game for the Xbox360 or PS3.
“Following a review by the USK ratings board, which declined to give an official rating, Codemasters has decided not to change the artistic vision of the renowned author and film-maker Clive Barker through cuts and extensive changes,” said the company in a statement sent to GamesIndustry.biz.“Codemasters respects Mr Barker’s creative ideas, despite the German distribution and marketing consequences for the title.
“Therefore Codemasters will release only the PC version of Clive Barker’s Jericho in its original form for adult gamers and Clive Barker fans,” confirmed the company.
Jericho is scheduled for release in Europe October 26. A demo will be up on Xbox Live tomorrow and on the PlayStation Network next week.
Why should they edit it?
About how big is the German game market anyways?
At any rate, about time a publisher has stood up to those German chumps.
Bout time a publisher didn’t puss out and refuse to edit their games. *Cough* Take-Two *Cough*
Heck yea, Codemasters.
Speaking of Codemasters, are they still using StarForce for their PC releases? Because if I have to put up with that for Jericho you’re gonna hear no small amount of four letter words out of me.