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Typically, whenever “Australia” and “video games” are mentioned in the same breath, you know you’re going to hear about some violent game either being banned or censored.
But today, you’d be wrong in your assumption, because, as Kotaku reports, the Australian Ratings Board has reversed its ban on Sega’s shooter Aliens vs. Predator. Despite the fact the game will not receive a single edit, the board has deemed it worthy of Australia’s highest game rating, MA15+.
The board explained its decision to grant the rating, and overturn its previous ban – the first such reversal since 2008’s F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origins apparently – thusly:
“The violence is fantastical in nature and justified by the context of the game, set in a futuristic science-fiction world, inhabited by aliens and predators. This context serves to lessen its impact. The more contentious violence is randomly generated and is not dependent on player selection of specific moves.”
From what’s been shown of AvP up to this point, it’s pretty clear that players will be committing some pretty horrific acts of violence, including the ability to slit throats, skewer people with your alien tail and performing the alien’s iconic face-spearing kiss of awesomeness. And yet killing zombies in Left 4 Dead 2 in an epic battle for survival was so shocking and disturbing, and not nearly as “justified” as eating dudes in AvP, that it needed to be censored? O...K...
This news has me torn, because, while I’m pleased that Sega is going to be able to released AvP in the form they intended, but it also, once again, reveals how broken Australia’s classification system is, and why the whole thing needs a serious overhaul immediately. In the meantime, congratulations Australian gamers!
Source: Kotaku
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mad maxio
Okey dokey... i just wanted to start off bye saying i fully love this game and personally i think its better than modern warfare 2 but i dont want to start a full on argument with all those fanboys about how great they are with there overpawered guns like the ak47 with noob tube or the people who use marathon ,lightwieght ,comando and a tactacle knife but personnaly i would rather play a game were you rip off people faces and head bite them with the kiss of awsomeness but i am an australian citizen and i like the way they govern the country and you get payed when you dont even hav to work but i hate the stupid classifacation system im 12 and i cant play games uncensored???? i can look at stuff im not even gonna say but i cant play l4d2 uncenserd the fact that thats true makes you think dosent it.... wowzers wut a long comment i dont reely hav a life do i??? p.s. to all those 35 year old virgins get off ur mums lounge and go nail a whore
theangrygimp
You would think they'd just come out with an 18+ rating already, and just classify all those super violent/adult games as that and be done with it. Unfortunately, ratings groups are in a positions to influence what the general public sees (PG family movies almost always make more than big budget R films, regardless of content), and they will inject their own morals into what is "acceptable", and possibly, even open to bribery by movie companies wanting a lower rating, guaranteeing them more revenue. With all the death and violence, and cursing in transformers 2, you'd think it would be rated R when much milder movies have been. I laughed at it when those robots called that annoying kid a *kitty*, but how that passed as 13 year old speak is beyond me, lol. Not to mention when that one giant robot at the beginning rolled over about 30 cars, completely destroying them, and though no gore was shown, it was acted like it was no big deal. Just good ol' ...no just old, double standards. I do think there should be a ratings system, there are some things that people should not be subjected to until they have had time to learn knowledge necessary to handle intense situations and ideas in a rational manner, but to ban adult things from adults is to ignore the entire idea of the ratings system in the first place.
topgamer101
It's possible the harsher treatment of L4D2 was because the monsters resembled close to human form, where aliens and predators are less human?
Yeah I know weak arguement. Even if it were true it's still messed up. :/
EKG
Australia seriously needs to get their act together. I don't know whether or not to take this as a sign that their loosening their grip on their country wide censorship, or that their ratings system is so severely broken that games may pass or be banned on personal taste rather than a strict set of rules and a platform for them to stand on.
Something needs to give here.
SSJ4Pedestrian
Just for fun they should make a sting-ray survival game were you haft to fight mutant sting-rays, just to see how badlhy it gets boycotted in Australia. They be would really pissed expecialy if you made Steve Irwin an ulockable character.
ezeraeze
Who cares about australian pathetic government? That is a very stupid and irrelevant problem. Really? So I guess the never played gears of war1 and 2 or God of war(some of the bloodiest games ever) Do their govt also control their food, water and clothes to wear? Do they have R rated movies or even dirty movies?
Hydrafiend
Australia is not some backwards communist country. Why dont they just put whatever freaking rating they want on games and then just let people play it. The whole idea of some government panel deciding what kind of violence is okay and what is not is pathetic.
elite_hoster
I PLAYED L4D2 UNCUT AND ITS GORY BUT GETS BORING ITS LOST ITS SPICE L4D2, JUST BRING OUT HALF LIFE 3 AND JUST RETIRE VALVE YOUR OLD NEWS, PLUS ALIEN ISWORSE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS ONE DEPICTS DEATH IN LOCATIONS IN AMERICA, IF YOU PLACE ZOMBIES IN SPACE IT ES EXCEPTABLE. ITS A POLITICALLY CORRECT COUNTRY GRAMMER AND ERROR IS NOT WELCOME, IF YOU BELEAVE IN ALIENS YOUR IDIOT BUT IN AMERICA YOUR JUST AMERICAN
TheCommonHours
In Australia no one can hear you complain
mastered
i predict a huge spice in illegal gaming in Australia. dose anyone now were i can get some stock in that. i will be an overnight millionaire.
IcemanMX
Australia: Drawing arbitrary lines in the sand since 1788
-M
sarid
Australia has tons of things right in that country like in the whole way they govern it but their rating board is so stupid i mean do they not know that when they 'ban' games over there that actually makes them sell more due to the people importing it?
KevinJames23
In other words: "We're getting too much bad press so we're going to overturn out moronic decision but pretend like you guys had nothing to do with it so we can act like we can still do whatever we want in the future."
PiMD360
Why do stupid governments and committee groups think that gaming is a "child" thing. The average gamer last time I checked is 35 or damn near close to it. They need to start allowing a S load of AO games to usher in the new Era of gaming. If I can go and buy porn in a video store or look at online because I am 18, why can't I play or buy an AO game with gratuitous violence, c-word slandering, and hardcore 3d models doing things to each other? Why the eff not?
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