Fallout 3 cancelled in India

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GamingIndians.com reports that Fallout 3's Xbox 360 version has been cancelled due to "cultural sensitivities", while the PS3 and PC versions were never set to hit that country.<blockquote>Here’s the statement from Microsoft India:

Microsoft constantly endeavors to bring the best games to Indian consumers in sync with their international release. However, in light of cultural sensitivities in India, we have made the business decision to not bring Fallout 3 into the country.

Games fail to release in India for various reasons - high prices, lack of distribution - but “cultural sensitivities” is a first, it would seem. With games like Postal, Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto and many more on stores shelves for anyone to purchase, it really makes you wonder what exactly it is that made the release Fallout 3 in India such a business risk.</blockquote>Via Kotaku, thanks Confalone.

Blend Games speculates the Brahmin are the reason for this.<blockquote>I consider myself largely ignorant about Indian culture but: could the cancellation have been about cows? In the Fallout games, survivors of the apocalypse use "brahmin" - two-headed cows mutated by radiation - as pack animals. In Hindu religion, cows are revered and it wouldn't surprise me if the ability of players to shoot up herds of "brahmin" in Fallout 3 factored into the cancellation. The name of the radiated cows probably didn't help matters, either, as the term originates in India. "Brahman" is the name of a breed of cattle from India and the name of a prominent concept in Hindu religion ("the primal source and ultimate goal of all beings"). "Brahmin" is also the term for "the class of educators, scholars and preachers in Brahminical Hinduism" according to Wikipedia, which is making me sound a lot smarter than I am here. Could any or all of this hit some sort of nerve? </blockquote>
 
It's the nekular war stuff. They didn't want to give terrorists ideas they don't need C:«

Ahah.
 
Well Brahmins in India are essentially priests, so...
That might be like having an Indian game with little rabbi dogs that you can dip over and even kill.
Hehe, when I learned about Brahmins in History class, I at once thought of Fallout. When I learned they were not two headed cows but spiritual figures, you can imagine my disappointment.
 
Brahmin being two-headed cows would indeed likely cause a stir...

now, if they made brahmin impossible to kill and if they made a cult around brahmin instead of nukes, maybe it'd work. ;)
 
SuAside said:
Brahmin being two-headed cows would indeed likely cause a stir...

now, if they made brahmin impossible to kill and if they made a cult around brahmin instead of nukes, maybe it'd work. ;)
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We had that in Tactics, remember?
 
Brahmin being two-headed cows would indeed likely cause a stir...
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They could just change the name in the Indian version. And make them unkillable, while they're at it.
 
Brahmin seems the most obvious explanation. Like a game with a mutated Muhammad being released in Saudi Arabia.

Does anyone know if the previous fallout games were released in India? Seems like that info might be telling.
 
they would have to take the cows out alltoghther, or replace them with non mutated cows.

that and make killing one subject to negative karma.
 
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