We Dare also not daring a UK release

@The Wicker Man
well if the picture is any indication of how your party will go while using this game i think they are just trying to stop you from becoming a giant douchenozzle.

@kojo87 people who say, "douchenozzle" do not get to smell the wiimote at the after party. :(

@Puertoricarious

North Korea.

@Puertoricarious

Right? It only has a EU release date, so I'm guessing it's hitting the rest of Europe?? Maybe just France?

@Puertoricarious
in my pants

@Puertoricarious
In Hell.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
I disagree. This isn't your average hastily-thrown-together minigame collection shovelware game, it's your average hastily-thrown-together minigame collection shovelware game for horny people! There's a world of a difference.

@PointlessPuppies
may god protect us from the horny people

@The Wicker Man

I totally agree with the well-constructed, genius art of words that is your comment. I think this comment has actually changed my life. I will never forget you, or this moment, for all of my living days.

@Mach2
The sarcasm is strong with this one...

@Nofriendo

I think it's time for a... sexy party.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-OnyuJTm7s

@Nofriendo
That image just screams the 90s. The people look like they could have been an alternate cast of Friends.

@VEX
More like Beverly Hills 90210

@Nofriendo
The blonde on the top right and the blond on the mid left both put out that night. Both lied about it at work.

@RonnocoMail
The only kneejerk reaction here is yours. The kinky trailer wasn't just a marketing guff, it was literally the way Ubisoft expected people to play it. The fact that the in-game content doesn't show any of these...erm..."actions" is precisely the reason for the controversy.

The only thing the 12+ PEGI rating showed was a shortsightedness to a degree. The rating board only rates the content of the game itself, but doesn't go so far as to rate the "context" of the game as they said. This doesn't imply in the least bit that the rating is suddenly supposed to be used for its target demographic instead of what's suitable for what age. The only thing this particular case does is show a "blind spot" of the rating system. Something that at face value SEEMS harmless but is actually of adult nature, and the rating board is required only to rate the face value.

Don't read between the lines. This isn't setting a precedent for anything. This is just a weird case where the rating on the box doesn't tell the whole story, and it's a freak case in that it's really not bound to happen again. Saying the implications of the ratings on the box are going to be completely turned upside down just because of this particular case is making mountains out of molehills.

@PointlessPuppies "It was literally the way Ubisoft expected people to play it."

So, again, if Nintendo releases an advertising campaign that says it expects everyone to play Mario Kart while completely drunk (and I wouldn't even refute it as a common state in which to play it), that suddenly means the game content is adults-only?

Regardless, Ubisoft already stated that the game is aimed at adults and isn't aimed at children. Just because the content isn't objectionable doesn't mean that it's suddenly for children. The documentary Ascent of Man isn't R-rated but that doesn't mean it's for children either.

"This doesn't imply in the least bit that the rating is suddenly supposed to be used for its target demographic instead of what's suitable for what age."

But this is how everyone took it. I even had one man, a video game developer of all things, decry it and qualified it by stating that the Wii was for kids thus the game must be for kids. It didn't matter that the game wasn't aimed at kids; it was rated as being okay for 12+ and suddenly that meant it was aimed at 12+.

"Something that at face value SEEMS harmless but is actually of adult nature, and the rating board is required only to rate the face value."

I suppose you resent the large amount of "innuendo" in family movies such as Shrek, then -- and feel that they should have adult ratings? What seems harmless usually is because it flies over the heads of little children -- even if they were intended to play the game, which they are not.

"Saying the implications of the ratings on the box are going to be completely turned upside down just because of this particular case is making mountains out of molehills."

This simply shows that the Daily Mirror and its ilk can get its way if it moans hard enough. Same with Rule of Rose. It's happened before, it will happen again.

I guess no one will care as long as they are "shit games", though. Hurrumph.

@Perfidious Sinn
It's already in stores over here in Austria.

@IrateGamer
May God have Mercy on your souls

@dosed150
Maybe I'm too cynical but I can't help wondering if Ubisoft somehow pulled it for the news value. Are they running TV ads in France or wherever with 'So naughty it was banned in the UK!' all over? :)

@Emmenthal

they should make the game do the spanking for you, call of duty doesn't try to make it's players kill actual people so it's not really comparable with we dare. we dare should have all the sexy in the game rather then making billy and his sister act it out.

@ND92 Alternatively, if it's for a mature audience, just add more, y'know, mature things to the actual content.