I'm just kind of curious knowing most of the games are based on shooting Germans, although more than 60 years ago. Do they play them regardless? Germany's totally different and better now and I'm wondering if they stay away from those games since they might remind them of their past.
Absolutely. At least, we know they play the Battlefield games- go dig up the early gameplay footage of BF2 from a Battlefield 1942 tournament in Germany in early 2005. There were thousands of Germans there who were huge BF1942 nuts.
Absolutely. At least, we know they play the Battlefield games- go dig up the early gameplay footage of BF2 from a Battlefield 1942 tournament in Germany in early 2005. There were thousands of Germans there who were huge BF1942 nuts.Ioden
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True, but BF1942 is a game that doesn't really have story in which the player is pitted against the Nazi war machine. Its more a open world set in that time. I wonder if they play CoD or CoH. Any Germans out there?Â
[QUOTE="yodariquo"]Any references to Nazism, to my knowledge, are banned there, which would kinda make it difficult to make a WWII shooter.HyperMetaDragon
Pretty much any videogame that has relevance to violence is banned there. :?Â
lol i didn't know that i think thats a bit OTT to be honest
I'm not German, but have been there extensively. Yes, germans do play WW2 games. However, any symbol involvign Nazism is removed. Battlefield is popular over there, as is Wolfenstein.
And they don't ban any game with violence - just the most extreme ones.Â
Anything related to Nazism is banned or must be edited. Most WWII games edit out the overt references to the Nazi's and symbolism.
 The symbols and general talk and such of it must centre on an almost entirely educational basis.Â
And only extreme cases of violence and gore are banned, but many German players can get their hands on what they want if they truly wish to. There's various methods.
As for killing Germans... It's not generally looked at as killing Germans. The nature of the beast has made the general concensus of the world look upon the Nazi's as almost entirely different people. Â
Please try not to think of 'The Nazis' as 'The Germans' or the other way around. It's really not fair. Germany and its people have suffered greatly because of the Nazis and WWII.
I seriously asked myself the same question.. But yeah they do, but in my perspective it's kinda odd to shoot at your own ancestors. But I never knew about the banning of all swastikas and other Nazi symbols.. WWII should never be forgotten and movies about the second world war aren't banned because of symbols right? Why should games be banned or altered? Â
I've recently been traveling, and have made some observations about Germans. I get the impression from almost every German I meet that many of the post war Germans have had anti-Nazi/German teachings beaten into them throughout their entire life, schooling, and travels. So much so that they can't help but feel somehow responsible for this terrible war that none of their parents even could have possibly participated in. Many Germans seem very negative about their own country and heritage. Judging by the huge number of Germans I meet on my travels, they seem to have some insatiable drive to leave Germany. Many have stories about being accosted in the streets for the deaths "they" caused in WWII. I guess everyone needs someone to blame.
As several people have said in this thread, although Germany does have some stricter rules when it comes to videogames there are still plenty of violent games available. No Nazi references are permitted so tend to be edited out from WW2 era games so that they can still be played.
Though I am British my girlfriend is German (now living here) and it has taken a long time to get her to relax and laugh at Nazi jokes which are still prevolent in a lot of Western humour. They are raised to believe that it is something they ought to feel guilty about and that the rest of the world still blames them for. By this generation that's really not the case and the humour is no longer bitter - it's just humour. It was actually a big achievement seeing her just laugh instead of first feeling awkward.
The German soliders in that game are presented both as humans and as monsters. They even portray the Warsaw Ghetto clearing as well as a massacre of a village by the Dirlewanger Brigade.
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