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August 12th, 2008 @ 07:44
Epic’s Mark Rein’s confirmed that Gears of War 2 won’t be shown by Microsoft at Games Convention next week.
“Microsoft doesn’t show Gears 2 at Leipzig because they don’t sell the game in Germany,” Rein told VG247 this morning.
Gears of War isn’t sold in Germany because of restrictions on violence in games in the country.
The action sequel was the Microsoft keynote headliner at E3. Shame it won’t be at GC: we wanted to play it.
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August 12th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Er… you sell the game in the rest of Europe, Microsoft! Whatever happened to ‘improved local focus’?
They can be a bit odd, the Germans. They’re like a slightly less consistent Australia.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:24 am
That’s just the games rating people, by the way. Some of my best friends are Germans.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Sony runs up against this too. They’re not allowed to show 18 games in the keynotes or on the showfloor period. Don’t expect to see a Resistance 2 keynote full of headshots, put it that way.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Surely then it would be better to hold this show outside of Germany?
August 12th, 2008 at 8:47 am
A lot of bigwigs have said that in private. It’s all a bit academic, really. It’s in Germany. Britain was too busy fucking shows up every year at the time and GC got huge. I like it. It’s great to see thousands of kiddies with their parents not being faced by hordes of exploding mutants
August 12th, 2008 at 9:55 am
They should stick it in France, or possibly Italy - I’d actually go if they did.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Isn’t Italy the software piracy capital of Europe?
August 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Yeah. And the game they’re seriously into pirating is PES
August 12th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Switzerland would be a nice place for Games Convention!
We don’t have any of these age or gore restrictions, plus for the most part there is no language barrier for german visitors.
August 12th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Dont worry for all u gears of war loving germans out there im pretty sure u will be able to pick up a copy off the game off of ebay
August 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Or import it from Austria or Switzerland.