Where the freedom is
“Did you finish Fahrenheit yet?”
“Not yet. Played it last night. Got to the bit where one of the cops has sex in a train carriage with the reanimated corpse of the fugitive they were pursuing.”
“Oh, that’s really close to the end.”
“Ok, right. I wasn’t sure if it was one of those inevitable events, or if the choices I’d made earlier in the game had pushed me down the necrophilia path…”
“Apparently that’s one of the scenes they cut from the American release – Indigo Prophesy.”
“Really… wait – this is only a 15. The BB-bloody-FC gave it a 15. Why would they need to cut it in the US?”
“Sex, I guess. The situation in the US is that major retailers won’t carry games that are rated ‘Adults Only’ – and a UK-style statutory rating system for mature content isn’t going to fix that, so the US games industry is forced into pretending that some games, ones that would be rated 18 in the UK, are suitable for the almost-but-not-quite-18 age group.”
“Except, even the BBFC doesn’t think it rates an 18. Wow, do you remember when America was where the freedom was?”
“Cold war propaganda.”
