Aliens vs. Predator Unbanned in Australia

[Vrex360]

YES!!!

Sorry, normally I would try to hold onto my excitement but this news is great, I get the game coming out in Australia and the violence is fully intact, just as Alien and Predator should be. This is wonderful, my sister gets married today and I get a game unbannned, this day pleases the mighty Vrex.

 

[Zing]

Fuck that's awesome. Score 1 for us.

 

[Zing]

Great news for the Australians! Looks like the classification board finally got some sense into them!

Tis a great victory against the attorney general too...heh

It isn't really the classification boards fault though, the game should be rated R18 but it can't be, so they have the choice to either refuse classification or rate it M15 when it shouldn't be.

Well technically it is, Atkinson's whole endgame is to keep these games away from children, so this is just another punch in the face for his backward logic, another violent game that children can pick up without even having to go through their parents. Which they would have to do(giving their parents a chance to...be parents) if it was R18+.

 

[Fox242]

Awesome news for the Ausies. Now they won't be left out. And a great victory for gamers in general.

 

[Zenode]

I couldn't stop laughing at how

GODDAMN INCONSISTENT IT IS...needless to say, i never expected this.

I must ask though, what if all Australia gets an R18+ rating, does that mean that all RC games will be released with an R18+ and the gore will be patched into L4D2 etc or will they just do it from there on out?

 

[Lord Krunk]

Aww, the censored L4D2 isn't that bad. Fading zombies do kill the immersion though.

 

[Andronicus]

My god I hate our classification board. Sure, we get the game, but at what cost? Common sense? Pfft, that went out the windows several years ago. The way these people rate games can be described simply as schizophrenic. There is no way on god's good earth 15 year olds should be able to get their hands on a game like this. It would probably be for the best that they just banned it and everyone else just imported it, as much as I hate to say it. Seriously, these people need their heads checked.

On the bright side: wooo, another game in which I shoot aliens. [/sarcasm]

Sorry, I'm actually getting kind of sick of this.

 

[accountdeletethis]

Congrats to Aussies for winning one battle. May you win the war in the end.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I'm actually rather ambivalent about the decision. On the one hand, it's great that Aussie gamers will be able to actually play this thing with no hassle. On the other, I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of 15-year-olds have open access to it. Based on what I've seen of it so far, plus what the Rebellion guys themselves have said, this isn't a kids' game.

As other people have noted, all this really does is highlight the desperate need for a proper rating system in Australia. All that Atkinson and his ilk are doing is ensuring that borderline games (which, like AvP, usually aren't very borderline at all) end up in the hands of kids.

So ironically, the war on games, much like the war on drugs, or prohibition just puts more bad substances in kids hands then it takes away.

Oh censorship, how your failure amuses me.

 

[Tron-tonian]

Well, it's nice that the game is going to be sold there, but Australia just told it's ISPs to get ready to bow to the gov't.s whims on internet censorship. :-(

By 2012, all ISPs are to have filtering tech in place. China will have it's great firewall, AUS will have the Great Barrier. Can hardly wait to see how much fun people have finding the loopholes.
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Edit: I'm *really* looking forward to this game. The last 2 have been loads of fun. Between it and Bioshock 2, that should fill my FPS quota for the year. (Not a huge fan of them, but sometimes...)

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Well, it's nice that the game is going to be sold there, but Australia just told it's ISPs to get ready to bow to the gov't.s whims on internet censorship. :-(

By 2012, all ISPs are to have filtering tech in place. China will have it's great firewall, AUS will have the Great Barrier. Can hardly wait to see how much fun people have finding the loopholes.
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Edit: I'm *really* looking forward to this game. The last 2 have been loads of fun. Between it and Bioshock 2, that should fill my FPS quota for the year. (Not a huge fan of them, but sometimes...)

Loopholes have already been found, the methods have been available for sometime now. Even China has admited that their Great Wall has been tunneled through and that they have no way to track it reliably. What chance does the Australian government have if a government as large and powerful as China can't stop people?

 

[ucciolord1]

Three cheers for common sense!

 

[Vierran]

This is really good news, but much like the article states i also believe that the decisions are made somewhat randomly and of course we will have to wait to see when Michael Atkinson launches a counter appeal because lets face it he will.

 

[aruseusx]

Well the revolution has begun, unite australian comrades and fight for the R18+ rating.

 

[Eatbrainz]

Whenever i hear about a ban in australia i cant help but imagine a tribe of aboriginals sat round a TV beneath a tree, the chief on a laptop and the children playing Tekken 6 on the 360

 

[qbanknight]

hooray for australians! glad you guys can play the game uncensored!

 

[S.R.S.]

As an AUS gamer my faith in humanity has been restored however Robert Patterson as Spider-man *exhale* looks like I have to go back to cutting

 

[traceur_]

Because Left for dead 2 is shit, that's why.

Also, this is hardly a "big win", it's another game on the shelf, whoop-de-fucking-doo.