Quantic Dream’s latest game Beyond: Two Souls will be censored in Europe. When asked by a user on the PlayStation Blog if the game would have any differences between the US and EU versions, Ross Alexander had this to say:
“There are only two amends between the EU and US versions of the game, amounting to about 5-10 seconds of gameplay that’s not been removed, just edited slightly to be in line with a PEGI 16 rating.
For BEYOND we wanted to make the game available to as many people as possible, hence applying for a PEGI 16 rating. The 5-10 seconds I mention above would have upped our rating to a PEGI 18, so it made perfect sense to make these two VERY minimal changes to get our planned 16 rating.
I can assure you that this does not affect the game’s story at all, and that if you didn’t know these scenes had been amended, you wouldn’t even notice.”
Beyond: Two Souls will be released exclusively for PlayStation 3 next week. In the meantime, check out the demo today (or tomorrow for EU gamers)
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