Fallout 3- Banned in Australia
By Andrew Ramadge, Technology Reporter
DEBATE over the lack of an R18+ rating for video games is set to be reignited after another game title was denied classification in Australia.
The video game Fallout 3 was this week denied a rating by the Office of Film and Literature Classification, banning its sale and promotion in Australia.
Video games in Australia must qualify for a rating of MA15+ or less to be available locally, due to the lack of an adult R18+ classification similar to that given to films.
Fallout 3, developed by Bethesda Softworks, is set two centuries in the future and follows a survivor who ventures out of a fallout shelter into a post-apocalyptic world.
The game is the third major title in the popular Fallout series. The first two titles were jointly named one of the best five games of all time by PC Gamer magazine in 2001.
According to documents given to Australian Gamer, the classifications board denied Fallout 3 a rating due to its depiction of realistic drug use.
"In the Board's view these realistic visual representations of drugs and their delivery method bring the 'science-fiction' drugs in line with 'real-world' drugs," the board's report said.
"The player can also select and use 'Morphine' (a proscribed drug) which has the positive effect of enabling the character to ignore limb pain when the character's extremities are targeted by the enemy."
Link:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23998431-5014117,00.html
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http://www.gameplayer.com.au/gp_documents/Facts-about-fallout-3.aspx?catid=Features
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2 Comments:
Who the hell do they think they are stopping?
There's a little thing called the Internet.
Yeah, who the hell do they think they are?
Beyond a joke, they are just kill joys.
It's just a game.
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