Via Gamasutra comes news that the Australian Government has refused to classify Valve Software’s multiplatform follow up Left 4 Dead 2.
Electronic Arts applied for the rating and was issued a classification of “RC,” for Refused Classification, meaning the game will have to be heavily modified to have any chance of being released in Australia. The ruling (PDF) stated:
These close in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore.
Australia’s videogame ratings comprise four categories: G (General, very mild content), PG (Parental Guidance Recommended, mild content), M (Mature Audiences, moderate content) and MA15+ (not suitable for people under 15, strong content).
The original Left 4 Dead garnered a MA15+ rating in Australia.
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Re: Valve’s Latest is Left 4 Dead Down Under
His name is Michael Atkinson, FYI.
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I'm not under the affluence of incohol as some thinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the drunker I stand here, the longer I get.
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I'm not under the affluence of incohol as some thinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the drunker I stand here, the longer I get.
Re: Valve’s Latest is Left 4 Dead Down Under
What it boils down to is personal agendas, not children. Because why else would a government want to shape their policies for a demographic that has less rights than adults, including not being able to vote or participate in government?
Re: Valve’s Latest is Left 4 Dead Down Under
I always thought that all that is good and great is inevitable (ie. free trade, free speech) and all that is bad (racism, anti-globalism, big govenrment, and dare I say religion) will crumble. But it's countries like Australia that remind me that all it takes is for the wrong people to have so much power to turn that all into crap and set us back to the stone age.