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C`mon we`re not kids, we can take stuff like this,the last splinter cell game also had torture scenes,they were called interrogation scenes but you don`t go up to a guy and slam his face in a wall just to ask him "Hey,how you doing?"

Has nothing to do with being M-rated.

The issue about torture is the efficacy. Simply put: it doesn't work.

I don't think that had anything to do with why they cut it Jonah -_-

They cut it because people didn't like it, too brutal I suppose. Might have been a lack of testicular fortitude if you ask me.

Or maybe it just didn't fit in with the game.

You are free to draw that conclusion :)

The only thing that matters is if this scene would be helping or hurting sales :)

Torture works. Everybody breaks. The trouble is, before then it's very hard to tell if someone is an expert, or really doesn't know the answers. Torturing someone into giving you info in a short time is very hit and miss, especially if they give you misinformation. If you have a few weeks up your sleeve, you can be pretty sure of getting the info you need from most people. Make them tell you the story in different ways, say it in reverse order, cross reference with previous results. Do not let them sleep.

Torturing a confession out of someone is pointless though. You get a lot of false positives. They'll typically just tell you they did it after a while.

Torture is ok in games and movies, but people generally don't want to be the torturer. It's an ikky business. While seeing it happen or having it happen to you is confronting and gritty, and people could probably be ok with playing a character that tortures someone in a cutscene (no pun), actually controlling the torture in anything like a realistic way would be just a bit too offputting for most ppl. Games should be fun. Intense is ok, harrowing is not.

Totally, I don't think I'd feel OK after playing the bad guy to such an extent.

Very good point Hammerjinx and very well explained,indeed i would rather not do such a thing even in a game but i guess that would depend on how far the torture goes,for example there was a torture scene in FarCry 3(i won`t say too much about it due to spoilers),it was short but showed how wrong it is to do something like that,if they were to make their scene similar to that one i think we would be fine.

I don't see this is bad, particularly with Americans running off the rails at the moment killing each other for all sorts of wacked-out reasons. We don't need kiddies to be learning how to painfully torture one another, and I believe it's a good decision by Ubisoft.
It may be realistic, but think of the gamer demographic for these games - it's not the adults I'm worrying about (although some scare the hell, out of me).

Anyhow: is there an _indication_ as to when this one is going to hit te shelves?

if it isn't delayed yet again, which it might be now, August 20th in the United States and August 23rd in the UK for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this year is the expected launch date. I guess PC and Nintendo will be the same, or not long after.

Ok great. Can't wait!