Twenty years later in Germany they removed censorship from Half-Life

Since the release almost two decades ago, the German version of the classic Half-Life shooter was only available in a considerably chopped form due to censorship. Now local gamers can try the original version of the game Valve, when the company still did single-player shooters [sarcasm]. On Steam, users from Germany can now download a free copy without censorship.

Valve released Half-Life Uncensored as additional content to the original game, after the shooter's warnings were removed by local authorities.

The reason for the censorship is related to the fact that Germany has a council for protecting young people from malicious media. He developed an extensive list of standards to protect young audiences from products that are considered excessively violent, violent or contain other negative content in the country. If a product falls under prohibitions, it can not be sold to persons under 18 years of age or even publicly advertised. In this regard, companies are forced to voluntarily censor their games.

Here is an example of how the censored version of Half-Life in Germany looked.