Devastating news for aussie's this week, Left 4 Dead 2 will be banned from being sold down under. The Australian Classifications Board has refused to give a rating to the shooter zombie survival game. Why do all Aussies miss out on the chance to kill zombie in new, imaginative and graphically enhanced? We miss out because of the refusal of our government to allow distribution/sales of R18+ games. Australians getting a maximum of MA15+ games is just plain stupid. Its as if our goverment believes us to be more sensitive, or prone to violence, than the rest of the world. Ill bet theres no gamers in Australian politics. Boards reasons for banning the game were due to
'high impact violence' against
'living humans infected with a rabies-like virus'. Firstly, zombies are not living , they are the re-animated dead and second, who doesnt like a bit of high impact violence. I am a huge fan of zombie games and i say the gorier the better. The report goes on the say that the game has
'copius amount of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as location damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore. Projectile shots to infected humans can cause abdominal wounds which can reval innards or even cause intestines to spill from the wounds'. I'm sorry but does that sound freaking awsome to anyone else or is it just me? Being an 18 year old gamer myself and knowing that the average age of a gamer in Australia is 28 i really dont understand why Aussie gamers have been denied our gore-fest all-round awesome gaming experience!
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full report here
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