Gears of War 2: Too violent for some?

UGH! just as I post something about Mature content I switch to yahoo and read this headline! A article published by Yahoo news and written by Mike Smith tells us why the game is being banned in some places.

As the gaming press gathers on the West Coast for a week of preview events,
the sequel to 2006 smash hit Gears of War was by far the biggest news to come
out of Microsoft's Tuesday press conference. Gears 2 takes over the story six
months after the close of the original Gears, as humanity faces a new and more
deadly threat from its Locust enemies -- and features even more explicit
violence than its notoriously bloody predecessor. Could Microsoft's newest
action game have gone too far?

Gears of War was famously banned in
Germany, after the country's ratings organization declined to issue the game an
age certificate. Gears 2 covers much of the same ground, but adds in more
realistic visuals, a deeper plot, and battles that concentrate more on mobility
and dynamic combat than the original, which some decried as a prettier version
of the old "whack-a-mole" parlor game.

Graphics and plot aren't just
what raised eyebrows at the press event, though: instead, attendees caught a
glimpse of one of the game's many melee kill moves. Whereas Gears 1 included an
up-close attack that used a chainsaw blade on the lead character's main weapon
to dismember a foe, Gears 2 adds a reverse attack that actually slices an enemy
in half -- from the groin upwards. Elsewhere in the demo, presenter Cliff
Bleszinski, the celebrated lead designer behind the Gears and Unreal series,
showed off a new ability that let him use the corpse of a fallen enemy as a
"meat shield", soaking up bullets while he returned fire around its head.

One thing's for sure, though: the Gears of War gameplay Xbox 360 owners
know and love is alive and well, and although it's definitely kicked the
violence up a notch, like its predecessor it's going to be a good fit for the
"Mature" ESRB age category, which will bar its sale to youths under 16. Whether
or not the German censors will take a different view on its violence this time
round remains to be seen -- but we're not going to be betting on it.

Gears of War 2 is expected in November, just in time for the hustle and
bustle of the holiday season, but we're expecting to see more of the game at
this year's E3 trade festival in July.

At least this time we are not dealing with something too terrible to us. Just Germany has a little issue with the violence. Hmm, Germany huh? the same people who have videos of people shitting on onme another as well as some other very odd fetish material is saying the game is a wee bit to violent for them. Wow, this is a huige shock to me and seems a bit odd that they would wnat this. But oh well someone has to bitch about every M rated game on the market right? So whatever I dont care cause I will get my copy of Gears of War II and I will enjoy every second of it."