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Stranglehold Banned in Germany

Der Actionshooter John Woo's Stranglehold ist einer der Gamehighlights des Jahres 2007. Wegen seiner Gewaltdarstellung musste die deutsche Fassung allerdings einige Zensuren über sich ergehen lassen.

Obwohl es noch nicht Monatsende ist, hat die Bundesprüfstelle einer Sonderinfo herausgegeben, in der die Indizierung von Stranglehold bekannt gegeben wurde, nachdem schon nach einigen Händleraussagen über eine bevorstehende Indizierung spekuliert wurde.

Betroffen von der Indizierung ist die X-Box 360 EU-Version von Stranglehold. Indiziert wurde das Spiel auf Liste A und ist damit als jugendgefährdend deklariert worden

Translation:

- To much violence
- The German version was already cut
- The text says that only the 360 version is banned. But I guess PS3 and PC are affected as well.

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Published: 813 days 3 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Gaming | PC

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Time Lord - 814 days 3 hours ago

1 - I feel sorry for those Germans

Are movies/music banned there is well?

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MK_Red - 814 days 3 hours ago

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Germany must be Jack Thompson's favorite country. Anyway, sad news for German gamers. 3 of the best 360 games were banned there. Gears, Stranglehold and Dead Rising (The latter being the best next gen game before BioShock IMO)

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Itachi - 814 days 3 hours ago

2.1 - Gears wasnt banned

on a german watch dog episode about xbox 360 disc scratching remeber the lil kid and his grandma his was playing a copy of gears

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Coffin87 - 813 days 3 hours ago

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well it sucks ass, i hate this country for doing so (public hysteria and worried pensioners, sry i meant politicians..).

BUT there are a lot of websites and also retailers that sell these games, 99% of them multilanguage. :)

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DrWan - 814 days 3 hours ago

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Well, if they are sort of fluent in english that's ok. bc PS3 is region free (not sure about 360), so they can run a US vesion anyways

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DrWan - 814 days 3 hours ago

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Oh wait, is this the one bluRay game that is region locked due to Hard Boiled inclusion, then that'd be bad! anyoen remember the details?

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therealwillie - 814 days 3 hours ago

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or just buy it in france or the rest of europe

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Ghoul - 814 days 3 hours ago

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@ dr. wan

midway stepped back from the region lock. you can play the us version on any system even hardboiled.

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Ghoul - 814 days 3 hours ago

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the game is NOT banned its just taken out of the open advertising machanics. Its called the index wich reverts the products rights to be advertised in public. its NOT banned you can still go to a shop tell the henchmen that your 18 (show id) and purchase the game.

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BloodySinner - 813 days 3 hours ago

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BloodySinner - 814 days 1 hour ago

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Wow Germany. Why don't you ban video games altogether. Geez...

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Ghoul - 813 days 23 hours ago

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the ones skilled in reading are the blessed.

read again what i wrote and then come back

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BloodySinner - 813 days 3 hours ago

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I did read. I read the title. Not your little comment.

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heihoosilver - 813 days 19 hours ago

6 - damn

for the ride of the train Hitler has not abandon the chair in Germany.
Let us gamers decide whwt we want(can) or not want to watch or play.

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ASSASSYN 36o - 813 days 3 hours ago

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Germans have become...dare I say it. Gaming PU55ys. Frenchies you just stepped up a lot in the world. The french told the world to prepare for war with Iran. Thats tough talk for France.

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progx - 813 days ago

7.1 - I guess France wants its own vietnam...

except its sand instead of jungle.

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progx - 813 days ago

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*double post*

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Jenzo - 812 days 18 hours ago

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Yeah, war is really tough. If you're not smart enough to use diplomacy, use bombs.

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YoMeViet - 812 days 11 hours ago

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I'm from Vietnam....

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progx - 813 days 3 hours ago

8 - WTF Germany....

you used to be cool.

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Jenzo - 812 days 18 hours ago

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What's your problem? This site already has lots of fanboys, there's no room for nazis. Stop being ignorant and go read some history books.

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JunkieXL - 813 days 2 hours ago

9 - Das ist Deutschland...

yes I'am German

this is so typical for germany. Our government is full of "Jack Thompsons"

violent movies = ok
violent games = evil

So läuft das hier halt...

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meshow - 813 days 1 hour ago

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bumnut - 812 days 19 hours ago

10 - thats sad

but i wish it was banned in uk so i didn't waste 39.99 on one the most boring repetitive games ever.

it also one of the worst online games i have ever seen.

germans, you are not missing out.

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perseus - 812 days 17 hours ago

11 - @7.1 PanZeRFaust14

"I guess France wants its own vietnam...except its sand instead of jungle. "

Is this a joke? "Its own Vietnam?"

Have you ever attended a history class? Have you even met someone who has attended a history class? I'm not even an American and I...

Never mind. Here. Let me help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

And here's another good one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Now get off my damn lawn, kid.

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codeazrael - 812 days 8 hours ago

12 - Stranglehold needs to be banned everywhere...............it sucks out loud!

After all of the anticipating of this game, I was anxiously waiting to play it. I mean, after all, it's been shoved up our ass since the 360 launched, so with a game receiving all of that hype, you would think it would produce, right? WRONG! I don't know what it is with alot of Midway games but alot of them just don't have any substance. I mean this game is as arcadey as they get. You don't feel as if you have real control of Mr. Tequilla (which is a stupid f*cking name btw, and the orchestrated action is unbearable for someone who is used to having to figure out their path and actions on their own. That's one reason why I don't like Heavenly Sword as well as some aspects of god of war, too many in game instructions instead of just letting you figure it out. Hell, I almost strangled myself for playing this craptacular game. I think I'll stick to Halo 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect and so on.

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