So 3 people choose what the whole country can see and could not see.
Let me please stress that, before the wrong information becomes gospel:
No, they don't, and they can't
I imported Condemned for example and there's no law which would stop you from doing so.
If you ordered, and the toll checks the package, they could have kept it.
Did you know that we never had Contra III for the SNES in Germany?
That's the European version (and Australia?), so it is not just Germany.
1.) Don't you DARE to call Stromberg a "rip-off"! It's far too good to be called that. It's a German take on the format!
Episode 1, can be considered a rip off, it is pretty spot on in some areas. After that it went it's own path though.
Anyway, they makers of The Office had a good case to sue, they did, and they settled out of court. The exact details are undisclosed, as far as I know, but since then The office's creators are part of Stromberg's end credits.
Hilarious. Presumably games like COD are ok in germany, so its ok to shoot fellow people in the face all day.
But defending yourself in a fantasy world where made up creatures are all trying eat you is not ok.
a) COD games have a long history of being self censored in Germany
b) The way violence is portraied and justified in both games is totally different.
One could argue, that Dead Rising is built around killing human like creatures for the sake of fun and enjoyment of seeing them killed in unneedlessly cruel ways.