The Singapore Media Developmental Authority has reversed its decision to ban
Mass Effect from the country. The game will go on sale next week and have an M18 rating. According to
The Strait Times, the Board of Film Censors will selectively use game ratings on high-profile games until January, when they expect to initiate a game classification system.
The decision to
ban the game earlier this week spurred from a
lesbian love scene found in BioWare's anticipated RPG. The Strait Times also noted that
Assassin's Creed was released this week with a rating for graphic violence.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JLynx @ Nov 16th 2007 1:59PM
Mass Effect = Insta-buy
ill trooper @ Nov 16th 2007 2:01PM
"Y'all lucky I like that shit"
- R. Kelly from 'Trapped in the Closet,' when he opts not to shoot two women kissing.
jake11 @ Nov 16th 2007 2:11PM
nice, now all thats left is to give gays equal rights and end corporal punishment for very minor crimes
Devils Advocate @ Nov 16th 2007 2:25PM
"corporal punishment for very minor crimes"
???
Who's spanking who and for what?
Jon @ Nov 16th 2007 2:37PM
Sexual intercourse between gay men is a criminal offence and caning is one of the punishment.
A truly sad country.
DemonGSides @ Nov 17th 2007 12:31PM
Which is somewhat ironic since they have one of the highest prostitution rates among children worldwide.
Devils Advocate @ Nov 16th 2007 2:43PM
Oh right, the caning...similar to the public whippings/lashings in Saudi Arabia. I remember reading a story years ago about a student who spit his gum on the ground in Singapore, and was sentenced to caning. Don't remember how that turned out though. That does seem a tad on the excessive side.
grapejoos @ Nov 16th 2007 3:58PM
His ass was caned, that's how it turned out. Singapore is clean - for a price.
potato @ Nov 16th 2007 5:26PM
Too high a price, grapejoos. For tidy streets and spotless sidewalks you've traded away any semblance of liberty, or heck, a democratic government (elections are a sham in that country). Singapore is like the tidier, cleaner, more skyscraper'ed version of Cuba, or China, or Burma, or name-your-own-dictatorship-here.
J_Teo @ Nov 17th 2007 5:00AM
Better check your sources, no gum has been sold in singapore for over 10 years and only recently did gum sales get reapproved. But an American student did get whipped a couple of times (6 I believe) because he and his gang of equally drunk buddies pulled down and took home traffic signs.
If you've never been to SG, you might be surprised if you go for a visit. Great for a 4 day visit - not so great to live in.
ed @ Nov 16th 2007 3:23PM
hmmm...you'd think the butt sex alone would be painful enough punishment....
Blast Processing Megadrive @ Nov 16th 2007 3:44PM
Hot alien lesbian action for all! Hoorah!
CSeraph @ Nov 16th 2007 5:05PM
Although Singapore haven't been that clean imho in the summers in the past few years, when I re-visited family...
BigDaddyBooth @ Nov 16th 2007 5:47PM
I can't believe that this game was ever banned in the first place.
ThornedVenom @ Nov 16th 2007 6:39PM
You did the right thing, Singapore.
REUYL @ Nov 16th 2007 8:37PM
If there really was graphic lesbo sex in the game I would have understood the ban, but as Mass Effect stands with its current PG-rated "sex" scenes, it totally doesn't need any censorship. Singapore did the right thing, un-banning Mass Effect.
J_Teo @ Nov 17th 2007 5:00AM
Someone finally pulled their head out of their behind. Good thing they unbanned it - I was starting to get requests from friends back home to ship copies of it over.
Jay @ Nov 17th 2007 7:14PM
^^ Blimey, Britney gets *everywhere* doesn't she?