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Shooting fish is worse than shooting humans!

Synergized | May 11, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 XBOX 360 Company 
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was released a little while ago, but there was an issue that has now been brought up. Apparently, there used to be a feature in the game that allowed you to shoot fish and even had death animations for them, but was removed since it was a threat for moving a 'teen' rated game to 'mature' according to ESRB. Just to make it clear, you can shoot humans in the game, so it must be a worse crime to shoot innocent fish.
You can shoot plenty of human enemies in Uncharted, but the fish are a no-go, as Evan explains:

We had hit reactions and even some death animations for the wildlife in the game but we chose to remove it. It was flagged as a potential issue by the ESRB and it seemed like a small concession to make in order to maintain our “Teen” rating. It may have also affected the rating in Europe.

That's kind of crazy, really. I can only assume that the next Sega Bass Fishing will now get an Adults Only rating for the gratuitous violence depicted toward the fish community. We are training our kids to be fishermen with these violent simulators and I won't stand for it!

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  • 0 thumbs!
    The Don | May 11, 2008
    That's pretty dumb. Sure, shoot at the humans as long as you don't go for the fish!
  • 3 thumbs!
    Linkin Park Fan | May 12, 2008
    Hey they fish aren't shooting back now are they.
  • 1 thumbs!
    TurMoiL911 | May 12, 2008
    ... Wow.

    Shooting hundreds and hundreds of people ? No problem. Shoot a couple of fish in a river ? Suddenly there's a public outcry.
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    tallteen86 | May 12, 2008
    Kinda messed up...

    Animal activists would be all over this, if fish were shootable in the game....I can't remember, can you shoot the birds? I think I tried, but they didn't die? I can't remember....
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      Ameer | May 12, 2008
      Those slacker human activists.
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    Bale Fire | May 12, 2008
    For some reason people find it harder to watch most animals die than other humans. I guess were used to seeing humans dieing

    But I doubt anyone would care if a fish died
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    StarJet | May 12, 2008
    Didn't the people at the ESRB eat fish when they were kids? If it's good to eat fish, then what's the big deal with killing fish?
    This is just plain lame.
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    ShinyMilotic | May 12, 2008
    Lol what the hell, must be some pretty animated fish deaths.
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    Xtrordinary | May 12, 2008

    That's not how it works...

    The ratings are extremely percentage-based; Meaning that being able to kill fishes pushed the supposedly already high number into crossing the boundary to Mature.

    If you couldn't kill human, you would have been able to kill the fish. They probably just thought it was a better idea to remove the fishes rather than humans.
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      kik36 | May 12, 2008
      Thanks for that info, it makes a lot of sense.

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