WBIE Seeks Reversal of Mortal Kombat Ban in Australia
Warner Bros. Interactive is testing the might of Australia's new videogame classification guidelines.
It wasn't terribly surprising when Australia gave the denied [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108045-Mortal-Kombat-Banned-in-Australia]. It's a franchise that's famed for its graphically violent content, after all, and the country's classification board was notoriously twitchy about that sort of thing.
But it's a new year, with a new set of Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121292-Australias-R18-Classification-Starts-Today] for classification under the new R18+ classification category," the publisher told GameSpot AU.
There's no guarantee that the game will get the green light, since the R18+ category still allows for the exclusion of content that would earn an AO rating in North America. Even so, the great likelihood is that it will pass with relative ease, since Mortal Kombat would seem to be exactly the sort of game the new rating is intended to accommodate: violent - really violent - but also very popular with mainstream audiences.
Source: GameSpot [http://au.gamespot.com/news/warner-bros-to-ask-for-mortal-kombat-komplete-edition-r18-rating-in-australia-6402414]
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Warner Bros. Interactive is testing the might of Australia's new videogame classification guidelines.
It wasn't terribly surprising when Australia gave the denied [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108045-Mortal-Kombat-Banned-in-Australia]. It's a franchise that's famed for its graphically violent content, after all, and the country's classification board was notoriously twitchy about that sort of thing.
But it's a new year, with a new set of Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121292-Australias-R18-Classification-Starts-Today] for classification under the new R18+ classification category," the publisher told GameSpot AU.
There's no guarantee that the game will get the green light, since the R18+ category still allows for the exclusion of content that would earn an AO rating in North America. Even so, the great likelihood is that it will pass with relative ease, since Mortal Kombat would seem to be exactly the sort of game the new rating is intended to accommodate: violent - really violent - but also very popular with mainstream audiences.
Source: GameSpot [http://au.gamespot.com/news/warner-bros-to-ask-for-mortal-kombat-komplete-edition-r18-rating-in-australia-6402414]
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Vita players were supposed to get it a few months back, but because it's been refused classification over here, we got the PSP version of Lego Batman instead...pretty poor tradeoff.