The Evil Within - not as gory in Japan

In Japan a "zero" rating (equivalent of 18+) is a retail death sentence and publisher Bethesda wanted to avoid that for The Evil Within (or Psycho Break as it is called in its native Japan). So, the released a heavily censored version at retail with "Gore Mode" DLC thought to bring it up to the same level of gore as its Western brethren. However, Famitsu (via Kotaku) have now revealed that even with the Gore Mode DLC the Japanese version remains less visceral than the Western release. This includes main character Sebastian Castellanos not being completely blown to bits by bombs and some corpses not being quite as recognisable as humans.