Resident Evil 3 Censorship

[Joehrex]

Okay, I checked the Online games Databank for "Biohazard 3: Last Escape" and noticed that all console and PC versions in Europe have been censored. In North America, the Playstation, PC, and the Dreamcast versions are censored but not the Gamecube version. The Japanese version has all consoles uncensored in Japan (Except for the PS3 download versions and SourceNext PC versions ).

1. The German version has all blood gray, censored, and bodies of enemies disappear like in the old arcade games.

2. European versions like UK English, Italian, French, and Spanish, have red blood and gore, except zombie's head stays attached when you kick a it's head as Jill or encountering Hunter in the hospital as Carlos.

3. In the U.S. for Playstation, PC, and Dreamcast versions, you kick the zombie's head and it's head stays attached, but the Gamecube versions in the U.S. you CAN decapitate zombies by kicking them or see it's head get decapitated by a Hunter. Completely uncensored!

4. The Original uncut Japanese version is completely uncensored for all consoles. But after you download the Japanese PS1 version from the Japanese PS3 store or bought the Japanese Sourcenext PC version and play it, the content is the same as the European or UK versions.

How come all versions (except the PS3 and Sourcenext PC versions) in Japan are uncensored and censored for all consoles (except the Gamecube version) in North America?!

http://www.onlinegamesdatenbank.de/i...le&titleid=124

[Pikminister]

Despite being branded as a "teletubbie handbag", the GameCube was for MAHTOORE audiences



Actually, they censor a lot of the RE games in Japan. The recent Lollipop Chainsaw game was censored in Japan.

[Code_R]

Apart from the obvious censorship issues inside of Germany, I never heard anything like that. By a coincidence I did however play a little RE3 on Gamecube recently, and head detach finisher is present. I don't have a PSX copy at the moment to compare this to.

Why would the Japanese PS Store version be different though? Sony Entertainment Japan will only have licences for the original version released in that region.

[alinhoalisson]

Because ever since RE3, CAPCOM started making a "no decapitation" rule. Not only in RE3, but check hunters in CV, Outbreak, Outbreak 2, Survivor, and some others. Instead of beheading the characters, they have that 1-hit kill claw attack.

[Wrathborne]

ALISSON!!!!*SHAKESFIST*

actually the US versions were the last to keep some gore, with the exception of the self censored RE CV

[Canas Renvall]

If I'm not mistaken, REmake had Hunter decaps as well.

[Code_R]

And decapitation is in RE4.

[alinhoalisson]

And decapitation is in RE4.

And some of them were censored aswell in newer ports.

[alinhoalisson]

If I'm not mistaken, REmake had Hunter decaps as well.

I've never played REMake, I have no gamecube :~(

[Joehrex]

If anybody has the original (non-Greatest Hits) PS1 lable version from 1999, check and see if the zombie's head is flying off after Jill kicks it.

[Det. Beauregard]

Can anyone confirm Hunter decapitations in Remake? I don't remember that.

[News Bot]

Can anyone confirm Hunter decapitations in Remake? I don't remember that.

Yup.

[BeefWellington]

There are no decaps in REmake

[I_Am_Nemesis]

I dont remember the uk version of RE3 being censored, I'll have to play it again, havnt played it in years, still its pretty gory in places.

[Wrathborne]

There are no decaps in REmake

So what happens at 40 seconds int his clip?

[PlopPlop]

That was beta footage that didn't get into the final game IIRC!

[Rick Hunter]

You don't recall correctly, that's just called a japanese version.

[Wrathborne]

decap from RE3

[Joehrex]

Does your version on PS1 have zombie's head flying after being kicked by Jill? If so, then speak!

[Canas Renvall]

Not sure about the PS1 version, but RE: Deadly Silence has that in the US, (I think, been a while since I played it) and it's a port/enhanced port, so I would assume it's the same.