Soldier of Fortune: Payback Banned in Australia

[Andy Chalk]

Soldier of Fortune: Payback Banned in Australia

Soldier of Fortune: Payback [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune:_Pay_Back] has been banned in Australia as a result of its intense and graphic violence.

Australia's Herald Sun [http://www.classification.gov.au/special.html]website. "The violence seems to exceed the MA classification."

The Classification Board said, "The limbs may be shot off, resulting in large amounts of blood spray and the depiction of torn flesh and protruding bone from the dismembered limb," describing what sounds like a really cool game. Activision [http://www.activision.com]promotional material for the game included a description of the damage system as "shocking even to experienced FPS players."

Unlike most countries, Australia does not have a rating that corresponds to the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia [http://www.esrb.org] is currently campaigning for the introduction of an R18+ classification in order to make these games available to adults via local retail channels.

Soldier of Fortune: Payback is being developed for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and is currently slated for release in early 2008.


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[Automatic Meat [deprecated]]

To be honest I never got the fuss around SoF and its "I can cut a character's face in twenty distinct bits" routine.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Its called locaolized gibbing and to appese the rating boards of the world most games have dropped gibbing all together even Quake and Doom dont have meaty rain, Turok is going to have it for dinos but soliders seem to not be able to bleed, this is the good ship P'C,censor....

really Aus needs to put the barbi out of its ass and create a 18 age level since it seems to cap at 15.