4. Battlefield 4

Back to a somewhat lighter ban and a familiar country. Battlefield 4 is a first person shooter that battles Call of Duty for the hearts and minds of gamers around the world. Yet, it wasn’t the original release of Battfield 4 that upset China – it was the “China Rising” Downloadable Content (why don’t countries come together to ban all DLC?!). In all seriousness, China did not take the DLC content very well.

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China stated the DLC discredited China’s national sovereignty, viewed “China Rising” as a national security risk in the form of a cultural invasion, and encouraged those already owning the game to remove it from their gaming consoles – yeah they really didn’t take it well. They went as far as saying that China had replaced the Soviet Union as the predominant enemy in video games, which isn’t the case at all. There are far more instances of terrorists originating from the Middle East being used as the enemy in video games.