In case you haven’t heard, Company of Heroes is being launched in China as a persistent MMO campaign called Company of Heroes Online. Unfortunately, a couple of changes had to be made to the game in order to make it compliant with regulations in that country.
The biggest change is that the game no longer includes Germans. That’s right. This will be a World War II game with no Germans.
*cough*
In its place will be a new faction called ‘The Federation.’ The Iron Crosses in the game have also been removed but it’s unclear at this point what they will be replaced with. No news either on whether dead bodies will be replaced by sandbags.
Certainly, censorship laws can sometimes be wacky and China is stricter than most in this department. However, the original game already omitted all references to the Nazi party so as to make the game playable in Germany. Also, the Iron Cross has no historical baggage and is still used today on German tanks. So somebody on the review board must really dislike Germans.
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