Rusti
22-12-2009, 09:00
In an article on the News.com.au website (http://www.news.com.au/technology/aliens-vs-predator-game-ban-overturned-for-ma15-australian-release/story-e6frfro0-1225812391001), it was announced that an appeal against a prior decision to BAN the new Aliens vs Predator game (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/alien-and-predator-no-match-for-australias-fearless-censors/story-e6frf96f-1225807125322) had succeeded and the game would now be granted an M15+ rating.
The decision was made without requiring any changes to the game play or graphical content [unlike with Left4Dead 2 (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,26182654-2,00.html)] due to the game violence being "fantastical in nature and justified by the context of the game, set in a futuristic science-fiction world, inhabited by aliens and predators".
In other words: It's not set in a real world setting, so it's ok.
Sooooo... Zombies ARE real and are coming to eat your brains?! :eek:
Well, this would appear to be the case according to the Australian Government. Either that or they're just big Sci-Fi fans and don't appreciate Zombie movies/games.
So it's a win for the Australian Gamer, who can now purchase the unmodified new Aliens vs Predator game and play it in it's original uncensored glory and it's also a win for the software publishers who will now not have to worry about quite so many people pirating the game in order to play it, but purchasing it instead because it now WILL be on the shelves and it WILL be the same as the international releases.
Yet we still don't have our R18+ rating - and until we do, this dance of the so called 'guardians of the moral fabric of Australia', the Australian Censorship Board, against the rights of adult Australians to be able to choose for themselves which games they want to play or not, will continue.
The decision was made without requiring any changes to the game play or graphical content [unlike with Left4Dead 2 (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,26182654-2,00.html)] due to the game violence being "fantastical in nature and justified by the context of the game, set in a futuristic science-fiction world, inhabited by aliens and predators".
In other words: It's not set in a real world setting, so it's ok.
Sooooo... Zombies ARE real and are coming to eat your brains?! :eek:
Well, this would appear to be the case according to the Australian Government. Either that or they're just big Sci-Fi fans and don't appreciate Zombie movies/games.
So it's a win for the Australian Gamer, who can now purchase the unmodified new Aliens vs Predator game and play it in it's original uncensored glory and it's also a win for the software publishers who will now not have to worry about quite so many people pirating the game in order to play it, but purchasing it instead because it now WILL be on the shelves and it WILL be the same as the international releases.
Yet we still don't have our R18+ rating - and until we do, this dance of the so called 'guardians of the moral fabric of Australia', the Australian Censorship Board, against the rights of adult Australians to be able to choose for themselves which games they want to play or not, will continue.