Naughty Dog’s survival action-adventure, The Last of Us European (PAL) version is censored.
The US version of the game’s multiplayer features dismemberment on survivors, exploding heads and more, but the European version does not.
Immediately after the game’s launch Ramify posted on ND forums about the differences in multiplayer and then after few weeks community manager EvangM answered him via private message and said:
“The gore and violence ratings are subject to local regulatory boards in various countries, so the game must be slightly changed in order to accommodate those choices.
To be honest, I’m not sure what version Australia is getting. If you import the North/South American version, It will not be censored, but EU/UK will be.”
Although, single-player campaign is uncut and uncensored in all territories. Censorship doesn’t affect your multiplayer gameplay.
You can buy US version of the game at Amazon here, PlayStation 3 games are region free, so will work on PAL consoles.
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Source: ND & PS forums.
Why is the UK version censored? I understand Germanys… but UK? Why?
Because the UK census everything?
Australia sensors everything. Saints Row IV was banned despite Australia only recently getting an R18 classification for video games.
The UK doesnt censor everything. your thinking of Germany or Australia. US is probably more strict as BF3 is an 15 here and in the US its an M rated. And the same with alot of games
Thats some gay sh*t. I thought it was just not being able to fit the gore into the mp. god dam uk and their stupid restrictions
WHAT THE SHIT!? O.o thats so stupid.. i’ve seen games with much more gore here and when the same game (last of us) has so violent gore in the single player anyway, it just doesnt make sense to cenor the multiplayer…. god i’m disappointed
“Although, single-player campaign is uncut and uncensored in all territories.” And they censor the multiplayer? Nonsense.
@Mathhew
.. Cause UK is europe…?
Yakuza: Dead Souls The whole game is Scensored in America Dx
Cencored*