Dead Island Logo Censored in NA
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Published: 14:15, 22/03/2011 by Kovacs.
30Darling of the censors, Dead Island, is back in hot zombie-shark infested waters. Not content with showing brain-munching schoolgirls getting thrown through a window backwards, it looks like Techland’s logo for their upcoming title has been deemed too gruesome for general public consumption in North America.
Depicting what we assume is someone not only dead but quite undead (we hope), the logo’s “I” is (well, was) a corpse hanging from a palm tree. The ESRB, protectors of moral decency and authors of some of the funniest content I’ve ever had the privilege of reading, has decided no; that’s a bit too much. Now we have the much scarier concept of an active zombie coming for us. Thanks ESRB!
It appears Europeans, with their crazy drug laws, open attitude to prostitution, and Jedward, are wholly morally corrupt as it is, so we’re still getting the original, sick, twisted graphic.
Check out the differences between the two below. Don’t blame us if you run out and set fire to a shopping cart or anything.
Source: Rely On Horror via Destructoid
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22/03/2011 at 14:20
Member since: Mar 2010
Mmm, Jedward really has screwed up the moral compass in Europe.
All the other stuff is fine… If it weren’t for Jedward we, as a continent, would be shining examples to the rest of the world. But alas, we must hang our heads in shame…
22/03/2011 at 14:23
Member since: Jun 2009
I think I prefer the second logo. What has a body hanging from a tree got to do with zombies anyway?
22/03/2011 at 14:42
Member since: Mar 2010
well im guessing he killed himself because his loved ones have become grotesque shadows of there former humanity and therefore denied such a fate for himself
which brings me to a question what is everyone’s infatuation with the zombies themselves because for me personally the intrigue stems from the environment created by the zombies and how ordinary people fight to survive and ultimately live in that environment
22/03/2011 at 14:48
Member since: Jul 2009
I like them because I’m a necrophiliac.
22/03/2011 at 14:50
Member since: Apr 2010
That explains why you insist I lie really still.
22/03/2011 at 14:59
Member since: Mar 2010
@bunimomike i dont suppose you watched the being human episode with the slutty welsh zombie
22/03/2011 at 15:15
Member since: Jun 2010
I like them because their not robots.God i hate robot games.
22/03/2011 at 15:53
Member since: Mar 2010
I like them because they make funny noises. uughhh… But yeah, it’s all about the environment. Like in The Walking Dead.
22/03/2011 at 14:26
Member since: Nov 2009
It doesn’t look like an “I” in the second logo…
At least, not as much as the first…
22/03/2011 at 14:38
Member since: Jul 2009
I agree, “Dead Sland” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
22/03/2011 at 14:39
Member since: Jun 2009
Maybe the Zombie should be pulling some “Shapes”
22/03/2011 at 15:05
Member since: Jun 2010
Ah fond memories of my old man encountering a Wii moshi ty:).
22/03/2011 at 17:44
Member since: Jun 2009
I can just picture it, grunts I’m guessing too just out of pure confusion .
22/03/2011 at 15:54
Member since: Aug 2009
Just about to say this, looks more like an I in the first one to me
22/03/2011 at 18:04
Member since: Nov 2009
With you on this one.
22/03/2011 at 14:36
Member since: Jan 2009
Eh?
22/03/2011 at 14:37
Member since: Aug 2009
Agree with jcor and MadBoJangles. I can’t see the connection betweekn a hanging corpse and zombies, but the second does not look like an I.
22/03/2011 at 15:59
Member since: Jun 2009
I agree with you about the second not looking like an I. The 1st one does look more like an I obviously, but when I think of zombies, I don’t think of a corpse hanging from a tree!
Maybe they should have asked whoever designed THQ’s new logo to do it for them ;)
22/03/2011 at 14:41
Member since: Jun 2010
Might not be down to censorship,possible it’s just to stop confusion with N.R.A weekend breaks.
22/03/2011 at 14:56
Member since: Oct 2008
Anyone would think nothing bad ever happens in NA
22/03/2011 at 15:11
Member since: Apr 2010
I honestly didn’t notice that the ‘I’ was a body hanging from the tree until I read this article. That’s the god’s honest truth, sometimes people make a bigger deal out of things than there was originally!
22/03/2011 at 15:21
Member since: May 2010
Thank god it isn’t just me who didn’t notice.
23/03/2011 at 01:09
Member since: Feb 2011
Nope, I didn’t either. Sticks out like a, well, like a hanging dead body now though lol
22/03/2011 at 16:27
Member since: Feb 2009
oh god, that almost made me throw up, never do that again, i’d just eaten as well, you know how hard it is to get vomit out of a keyboard?
well, neither do i, and i don’t want to find out.
so please, never,EVER, mention the J word again.
don’t make me type it. >:(
22/03/2011 at 16:43
Member since: Aug 2009
Whats the J word? sorry I don’t watch tv or follow news
22/03/2011 at 16:50
Member since: Jun 2009
Did you read the article?
There is a ‘J’ word that refers to a couple of cheeky irish chappies that everyone loves to hate.
See – I didn’t write it!! :)
22/03/2011 at 17:06
Member since: Feb 2009
First one looks a lot better, the zombie in the second one doesn’t really look like an ‘i’.