Try making yourself a http://last.fm profile, helps a lot finding other good bands. (Hint: it is a media playerplugin tracking your played songs and then doing the usual "people who listened to... also liked..." thing, whit a community around it).

Two things: 1. under the old "Youth Protection" laws (which were active until last year or so) concerned parents could not ask for games to be reviewed/abnned/whatever, only state officials (Jugendämter, "youth institutions", and the like). Don't know why the whole thing started ...

Yeah, just saw that Karstadt and Saturn here in Bielefeld had the UK-version on their shelves, but labelled as such (on the price tag).

Nonetheless Activision has announced a cut german version to be released later, rated 16+.

I guess it is kinda related to WWII, yep. It is all about not exposing the youth to too much violence, no matter the costs, even if this produces this kind of weird results for the community. The german regulation institutions are still drilled to be very sensitive with these matters, that's where i...

I am German, and I got the UK version of the game, because I knew things like this would happen. Not the pure server incompatibility, but the toned down effects and the like. Happens all the time, and I don't play their game (they = censorship dudes). Just sucks big time. But then again, this was ve...