Fallout 3 to be edited worldwide to eliminate real world drug references

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Fallout 3 to be edited worldwide to eliminate real world drug references

Posted Sep 10th 2008 8:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: RPG, Fallout 3

Several weeks ago we reported that Bethesda Softworks would edit their upcoming post-apocalypse RPG Fallout 3 so it could be sold in Australia. Now Edge Online is reporting that those changes to the Australian version will in fact be made for all copies of the game sold throughtout the world.

According to Bethesda Softworks' PR guy Pete Hines, "We want to make sure folks understand that the Australian version of Fallout 3 is identical to both the UK and North American versions in every way, on every platform." The edits were to eliminate real world drug references in the game with more fictional names. Hines stated, "To avoid confusion among people in different territories, we decided to make those substitutions in all versions of the game, in all territories."

Tags: bethesda-softworks, fallout-3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Total crap, when is the industry going to stand up more to censorship instead of focusing solely on fighting half baked legislation that is DOA?Posted at 9:20AM on Sep 10th 2008 by rov947

im sure in a week there will be *realdrug* fan patches.

Posted at 11:13AM on Sep 10th 2008 by overflow

that is total bullcrap. Its a damn game where you blow peoples heads off with guns. You're telling me that its ok the blow people to tiny pieces in realistic realtime graphics, but its not ok to refference *gasp* drugs?!

So, in the censorship world guns >nicer than> drugs? Bullcrap.Posted at 8:28AM on Sep 11th 2008 by Rich

The game is the same who really cares. Posted at 1:06PM on Sep 11th 2008 by me

who cares?? its the principle of the matter dammit!!Posted at 5:10PM on Sep 11th 2008 by Kevin

It's just like movies where insanely gratuitous violence is okay, but a little tasteful nudity causes an automatic R rating. Looking at the human body is bad, altering consciousness is unacceptable, but ending life in a splatter of blood is fine... what a world.Posted at 3:44PM on Sep 17th 2008 by HumanKoan