Vice City Stories rated ’16’ in Germany

It appears that German gamers will miss out on the more ‘adult’ features of a Grand Theft Auto title, this time with Rockstar’s latest title due to hit the PSP in October, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK), who control software ratings for games released in Germany, has tagged the game with a ’16’ rating for the country. Now some of the 16-year old German gamers out there may be rejoicing, but all is not how it seems.

Due to the age restriction of 16, the game will be stripped of some of the adult features that the UK and US versions have such as headshot animations, not being able to kick pedestrians corpses, as well as the prostitution ‘feature’ of the game. These features will most likely be taken out of the Australian version of the game too, as the Australian office of Film and Literature Classification have labelled GTA:VCS as an ‘MA 15+’ title, although the platform mentioned is the PS2 version.

Via GTAPortable

It appears that German gamers will miss out on the more ‘adult’ features of a Grand Theft Auto title, this time with Rockstar’s latest title due to hit the PSP in October, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. The Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK), who control software ratings for games released in Germany, has tagged the game with a ’16’ rating for the country. Now some of the 16-year old German gamers out there may be rejoicing, but all is not how it seems.

Due to the age restriction of 16, the game will be stripped of some of the adult features that the UK and US versions have such as headshot animations, not being able to kick pedestrians corpses, as well as the prostitution ‘feature’ of the game. These features will most likely be taken out of the Australian version of the game too, as the Australian office of Film and Literature Classification have labelled GTA:VCS as an ‘MA 15+’ title, although the platform mentioned is the PS2 version.

Via GTAPortable