12 released video games under review by Australian Classific

[GameDesigner14]

The Australian Classification Review Board today announced it will be reviewing its rating of 12 video games.

The announcement was made following an application by the South Australian Attorney General to request reviews of each game's rating. As a result, the classification board will be meeting on November 18-19th and December 2nd, 4th and 5th to "consider the applications". The games in question are as listed:

Alien Rage
Borderlands 2 Expansion Packs
Company of Heroes 2
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut
Deadpool
Fuse
Gears of War: Judgment
God Mode
Killer is Dead
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

Each game was originally granted an MA15+ rating by the classification board. Following the reviews, the Australian Classification Board will be posting the results accompanied by reasons for decisions made on the official Australian Classification website.

The MA15+ rating is the second highest rating which can be granted to a video game in Australia. An R18+ rating was officially introduced on January 1 this year. Since the introduction of the R18+ rating, two games have been banned from sale in the country. Both Saints Row IV and State of Decay were initially refused classification, which prompted developers to submit modified versions of the game to be granted an R18+ rating.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/12-rel ... 0-6416017/

[Everlong]

Why is it that Australia is so much stricter on their games than other countries?

[SortaCreative]

^ Politics

[The Milkman]

Fuck we are so lame sometimes.

I think the reason for this is that our government has control over our classifications, whereas in places like the US it has it's own governing body (ESRB). I believe the 1st Amendment of the US prohibits them from taking that over. Now, I could just be making that up, but I'm pretty sure that's what's up wid dat.

Any games that are censored when they hit our shores I buy from the UK. We use the same region format (PAL).