Change to Fallout 3: Morphine becomes Med-X - briefly
(hx) 11:07 PM CEST - Sep,10 2008
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Online is reporting that the censored version of Fallout 3 originially
created to get around censors in Australia will infact be released in all
countries. That means no morphine.
UGO GamesBlog got in contact with Pete Hines and found the name-change of
morphine to Med-X to be the only change Bethesda made in response to censorship
questions.
UGO: Just wanted to confirm the annoucement that all versions of Fallout 3
would be indentical, with the changes being made to the names of specific drugs
(changing them from real-world names to in-universe names). Can you be more
specific? If I recall, all of the drugs in the builds we've played were made-up
names like Buffout and Mentats.
Pete Hines: The chems in the original Fallout used fictional
names...Buffout, Jet, Rad-X, etc. Those all appear in Fallout 3 in exactly the
same way as before.
We had added a new chem to Fallout 3 and had given it a real-world name,
Morphine. Questions were raised about the use of that real-world drug, not only
in Australia, but other territories as well. We decided there was no reason it
needed to be named that and it should be a fictional name like the other chems,
so we changed it to "Med-X".
That’s the change we made in response to those concerns, nothing else.
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