Top 10 most popular video games banned in world

Top 10 most popular video games banned in  the world

 Today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 video games banned in entire countries. There are some surprises in store here as well as a couple of usual suspects were you unable to play a certain game in your country. let us know in the comments.

10. Everquest

 

It might seem more commonplace nowadays for players to choose whether they want to be a righteous paragon of good or a bad anti-hero protagonist in their video game journey but brazilian fans of massively multiplayer roleplaying game. Everquest a game where players go on an everlasting quest this feature caused a legal quandary nine years post release in 2008 the 17th federal court of mina jedi state ruled that everquest led to players loss of moral virtue and took it off the shelves basically because he could choose to be good or bad it was banned the brazilian national ban was lifted except for in minas gerais who maintained their state's court order.

9. Postal 

Two no way you freaking pinko [ __ ] look just sign the stupid petition i've got stuff to do we know what you're thinking how can a game that's based on an innocent mail delivery service be so offensive alas the game in which you play a protagonist going postal delivers little but rather obscene violence so it shouldn't be surprising that the 2003 sequel which escalated the violence to nihilistic levels and carried the tagline remember it's only as violent as you are would be anything but controversial in fact there are 13 countries that have banned this game altogether including new zealand where it's a final offense of 50 000 new zealand dollars for retailers to distribute a copy yet this didn't deter game makers running with scissors from taking it further as postal 4 no regrets was released in 2019.

8. Football manager 2005

 We know what you're thinking how does a game that's based on an innocent soccer management structure managed to offend fm05 is definitely the most innocuous game on this list of banned video games after all it is essentially a series of lists of countries and independent nations which is the issue for classing tibet and taiwan as independent countries the chinese government released a statement saying that the game seriously violates chinese law and has been strongly protested by our nation's gamers and took it off the shelves in china it's illegal to go against the government narrative that they are independent nations whether you regard them as such or not and so football manager 2005 was sent off. 

7. The guy game

 

I don't know what do you want to be when you row up an fbi agent this could potentially be the only game that has been banned in the united states first actual content but not because of any particular copyright law infringements.The guy game was an awful trivia gameshow style video game that featured footage of real life models every time you got a question right but when it came out that one of the models featured was underaged at the time of filming at 17 years  and was unlawfully coerced by not telling her the content she was. filming for the game was promptly  recalled and banned.

6. Left for dead

Two kill all sons of [ __ ] that's my official instructions valve's left for dead sequel has had an interesting life in the australian and german markets upon its release. The game was banned in australia as the rating system did not go higher than the ma15 plus that the first game was labeled however after valve censored parts of the original game it was unbanned in 2014 with a newly minted restricted content rating of r18 plus to date the original uncensored version of left 4 dead 2 has never been available on the australian market a similar situation happened in germany with a censored edition on the shelves until 2021 when the original version was released after a review.

5. Grand theft auto series

As most of rockstars games have been banned somewhere they could probably have a list of their own so here's the cliff notes version the original 2d game is banned in brazil as is the gta 4 expansion pack for using music from brazilian musician hamilton de silva lorenko without permission gta 3 was recalled in australia despite its ma15 plus rating but after rockstar modified. The game a censored version was released a year later similar censored versions of gta installments were released in germany prompting their own ban to be lifted in 2012. after a taxi driver was killed in what was alleged as a copycat crime thailand banned the game although gta 5 is still available for digital download.

4. Carmageddon video game.

 Carnage has been considered taboo in some countries since the very first red pixel represented blood however even the most tolerant of governmental agencies did take exception to some titles in the earlier days of video game classifications and that is true of this entry banned in germany completely carmageddon was removed from the uk market for 10 months to give developers an opportunity to nullify the game's violent content this involved removing all of the people from the game and replacing them with zombies or robots turning their red blood green so that the players weren't mowing down humans in game but the undead.

3. Pokemon trading card game

Pokemon is many things to many people but did you know that it was supposedly sacrilegious the video game adaptation of the popular trading card game has been banned from saudi arabia due to its promotion of zionist views yep you heard that correctly this stems from the believed usage of the jewish star of david and other religious imagery inserted in the game and on the cards. They have also banned subsequent games in the series for its promotion of gambling and evolution the ban is slowly being lifted on the rest of the franchise but has yet to be moved on the original gameboy releases. 

2. Bully

Guess you don't suck contain your shock another rockstar game was banned except this time it was only one country that did so brazil and even then bully wasn't off the shelves forever the ban was based on findings from the state's psychology department that believed the game would be harmful to young people however in 2016 the decision was reversed interestingly. There were calls for the british board of film classification bbfc to ban or at least reclassify the game's initial 15 rating in the uk in florida activist and former attorney jack thompson claimed. It was a columbine simulator but his attempts to ban were overhauled by a judge order thompson was eventually disbarred after his numerous attempts to get families to sue rockstar games come on russell we've got a house call to make.1

1. Manhunt 2.

What a surprise that the final boss on this list would be rockstar manhunt was a pretty controversial game upon its release in 2003. its successor certainly lived up to that level of infamy spurred on by the game's unrelenting displays of violence in the uk the bbfc refused to classify manhunt 2 and were even pressured to reclassify the edited version as well somewhat ironic given that the game was made by rockstar's british offices the game is completely banned in germany malaysia new zealand and south korea it was never released in australia thanks to a similar non-submission to the australian classification board and banned in Ireland in a then unprecedented decision by the irish film center's office in the mood for more awesome gaming content be sure to check out this blog.