Has anyone gotten it yet?

[Kc7mxo]

Well if it is the 7th of March, it'll be just after i get back from the States Do yankee disks work over here? Never tried or found out before I hope to god its sooner though, maybe THIS WEEKEND PLEASE?

One of the my local stores has this wierd habbit of carrying UK edition games. It can be quite irritating, certain EU rules apparently affect content.

[booje]

Er any reason why Chips&Bits has it listed for a 02/03 release?:

http://www.chipsbits.com/cgi-bin/order.cbi_home?client=7642&source=84161&page=chips_main.html&newpage=infopages/MASTO3.IR.html

[viciouscycle]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by booje
Er any reason why Chips&Bits has it listed for a 02/03 release?:

Very interesting. Very interesting, indeed.

[Vince278]

I imagine by 02/03 they meant month/year, not month/day

[Jamski]

No they mean day/month so the second of March. (Starting this old one again... )

-Jam

[Grumbold]

Originally posted by Kc7mxo


One of the my local stores has this wierd habbit of carrying UK edition games. It can be quite irritating, certain EU rules apparently affect content.

The EU has a thousand rules affecting anything and everything. Something written for the "EU" will have lots of cuts because of all the different countries rules plus the EU bureaucratic blizzard on top.

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by War of Art
No they mean day/month so the second of March. (Starting this old one again... )

-Jam

It is Feb, 2003. If you look, it has MoO2 listed as 11/96 and the MoO3 Prima Guide as 12/02 in the same list.

[Jamski]

Actually the EU is much more liberal than the UK or USA in terms of content. Pornographic material is shown nightly on free TV in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Danemark, etc. Also graphic violence in video games is more tolerated. One big difference is that english UK versions of games never say "f*ck, sh*t or c*nt" where this may be allowed in the USA these words are a big deal in the UK.
In Germany we don't give a Scheisse

-Jam

[Sarxis]

Yeah, but in Germany games are not allowed to show human blood or dismemberment.

Or maybe that's Australia... hmm...

[Rantz]

Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
Yeah, but in Germany games are not allowed to show human blood or dismemberment.

Or maybe that's Australia... hmm...

The blood in one sequence of the intro movie is green in order that we did not have to create seperate movies for the german release.

[darcy]

Well, of course games are "allowed" to show red blood, gore and excessive violence in Germany, it's a free country after all. However, games that contain that stuff are often put on the "Index" by the BPS, meaning they must not be sold to minors and must not be advertised. Publishers often self-censor their games to prevent that procedure.

By the way, if the violence was subtle and in a non-interactive movie there's a good chance the BPS would have considered it harmless. But these guys are highly erratic, so it's smart to take the safe road.

[GodKing]

Green Blood..... cool.

[viciouscycle]

Green blood...

There's nothing so peaceful as a dead alien.

[Hierophant]

Rantz: You're kidding, right? Not about the green blood, I could imagine that being in the intro, but about using it because of germanies stupid computer game violence policy.

Seems I will have to DL a bloodpatch in order to get red blood and the hidden 3d-action groundcombat mode (with lots of gore and carnage)

(Edit: typos)

[Rantz]

Originally posted by Hierophant
Rantz: You're kidding, right? Not about the green blood, I could imagine that being in the intro, but about using it because of germanys stupid computer game violency policy.

nope I'm serious as a heart attack. In the intro movie there's scene where a not insignificant amount of human blood sprays. After it was rendered out, compressed and ready to go, we were told that there was no way around it, since there was only one version of the game that in order to get on the german shelves, we had to turn the blood green.