 "Dead Rising Gets Green Signal in England")
Dead Rising’s man-on-zombie action has been causing problems for the game in quite a few countries now. The game that has you going up against a mall-full of zombies has been banned in Germany, thanks to all the gratuitous violence. The game has even managed to piss the Japanese off, and that’s saying a lot (Itchi the Killer anyone?), but apparently it’s not violent enough for the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). Recently, the BBFC gave Reservoir Dogs, Eidos’s tribute to Quentin Tarantino’s an 18 Rating and it seems their reason for giving this game such a rating was the exact same reason Dead Alive was allowed in England. “We would only intervene if a game was going further than any other game in terms of interactivity and the ’thrills’ it offers a gamer,” one spokesman for the BBFC said. So unless a game depicts “sadistic violence or terrorization”, it’s cool in England.
Nash, as he prefers being called, woke up to the wonders of gaming rather late but don't bring that up around him. It's a touchy subject. A self confessed Battlefield veteran, Nash spent a good part of 2010 on the Steam Battlefield - with Bad Company (see what we did there?). He has a zero tolerance policy towards RTS games but is currently showing an interest by picking up and moving people - who he refers to as units - in the office. Thank God he's not that enthusiastic about Angry Birds or we'd be seeing women flying all over the place. Bali... Bali, put the receptionist down now.