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Over on the BioWare forums the developer has come under a bit of an attack over claims it was forced to censor the sex scenes in Mass Effect 2, with one forum user suggesting EA gave the studio orders that nudity was not OK for a Mature rated video game.
It appears that this struck a nerve with BioWare, particularly Stanley Woo, a member of the Mass Effect 2 QA story team.
“It’s kinda funny that this topic keeps coming up over and over again. People who claim to be old enough and mature enough to handle sex and nudity in a game seem to believe that any lack of sex and nudity in the game is a sign of self-censorship,” posted Woo. “They generally don’t believe that a game can be called “mature” without explicit sex and/or nudity.
“Let me tell you, folks, that as a developer full of mature individuals, we are also free to not have explicit sex and/or nudity in our games, no matter what you, Fox News, the government, or Bunky the Wonder Clown has to say about it. We have never considered it a “problem,” it is simply a choice we have made and we have every right to make that choice.”
Graphic sex or not, we think Mass Effect 2 is great, as you’ll find out in our 10/10 review.
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Mass Effect 2
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, RPG, Science Fiction, Space
