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Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is finally being released in Japan later this year. Yes that's right, finally we got a game months before Japan! The latest installment in the GTA series will also be the first DS game to be given an Adults Only Z rating in the region.

The two PSP GTA titles managed to receive 18+ ratings in the land of the rising sun, but no other DS game has been 'mature' enough to reach the feat. The game received an MA15+ rating Australia, and would have been reused classification, and effectively banned, if it were deemed to only be suitable for an 18+ audience here.

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JPrincess
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So, in Japan they have games about poking and prodding half naked girls but GTA gets the R18 rating?

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16/07/2009
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G-Ramsey
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it's an M 17+ rating over here in the u.s. we are strict about games over here but obviously not strict enough to kill a fantastic game.
08/07/2009
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Sumguy0 said:

Alex_TXD said: There is no sex or nudity so why R, strange!



course language, strong violence, drug content etc.



Adding to that, sex and nudity don't always determine whether or not something is rated R.
07/07/2009
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Sumguy0
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Alex_TXD said: There is no sex or nudity so why R, strange!



course language, strong violence, drug content etc.

07/07/2009
GTA: Chinatown Wars
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Alex_TXD
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There is no sex or nudity so why R, strange!
07/07/2009
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ken_64
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maybe ili get it
07/07/2009
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Ryoon
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Well of course we got it before them, its not a Japanese game. The only reason that Japan usually get games before western countries is because the games are developed in Japan by Japanese in Japanese.
Anyway, I think it is kind of interesting to know that other countries rate games so differently.
07/07/2009
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