http://ps2.ign.com/news/38412.html

Metal Gear Solid 2 Still On Track

Konami has confirmed that PS2's biggest game is coming in November, albeit with minor changes.

September 18, 2001


In a press release issued early on September 19 Japan time, Konami Co. Ltd. clarified the company's plans regarding the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 in the United States in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. According to the release, the game is still on track to ship in the states in November, albeit with very minor modifications to certain scenes which featured the World Trade Center.
"Because the main theme of this game is the pursuit of peace, the scenario will remain

I am glad they are still releasing this :)

Great News!!

So, it looks as if the Japenese one will still have these minor changes "intact" . . .

I can't see Konami destroying, and repressing the Japenese version of the game if they've already completed it. They'll probably only make changes on the domestic version, and we'll get a nice side by side comparison article on them a little down the road.

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I think they might eliminate the WTC from the Japanese version as well. I see very similar releases in this case, I could be wrong though.

I hope you are... I'd like the ORIGINAL unedited version.

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The reason I say it probably will be the same is because the initial Konami statement came from the Japan development group and not the American side. A lot of people wrote messages on the MGS2 Japan home page asking for them to release it on time and uncensored. Taking out the WTC to keep up with the times and the realism of the here and now isn't really censoring I'd say.

Um, isn't the point of the game to DEFEAT terrorists? Bring it on!

word.

If the WTC was originally put in the game, and if there were cut CG scenes in the game with it that are now being taken out... that is a form of censorship.

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Maybe there will be a some sort of code to include the scenes they cut out that will be released at a later date....

I don't think we know that there is even any conflict between, say, Hideo Kojima and Konami's US production staff. Kojima might be very interested in making appropriate changes.

Even if he was opposed, it would for the most part still be a normal function of a company which produces creative content. Calling that censorship would seem strange to me. Then again, in a country who thinks of censorship as what happened to Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show, it would be understandable if the term has become somewhat debased.