Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Fallout 3 Edited for Japan

We already found out earlier that Microsoft decided not to release Fallout 3 in India due to the two-headed cows, and today we find that the Japanese version was edited to get around other concerns with nukes. One of the first side quests in the game, in which the player decides either to disarm or blow up a dormant nuke in the middle of a city, was edited out over concerns given what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Also, the mini nuke launcher in the game is not called a "Fat Man", as that was the name of the second nuke dropped on Japan. Heh, hmm...