I still don't understand how despite the fact L4D2 seems relatively tame in comparison to eviscerating Marines as an Alien and tearing off heads as a Predator and yet L4D2 had to be edited out for gore and AvP not so.
I'd like to say 'change' but I don't have nearly enough that much faith to believe that.

;[ Stay mighty.

Wait what? Woah, to be honest I'm suprised this got through with a 15, but it's awesome news for Aussie gamers.

This is my favourite for FPS of 2010.

Will be hard for Rebellion to fuck this up based on their past experience with the franchise and how amazing it already looks.

Australia is asking its citizens for their opinions on changing the law to include 18+ games.

http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/SnatchTease/aussie-govt-considering-18-games-asks-its-citizens--157887.phtml

The Review Board unanimously determined that Aliens vs Predator should be classified MA 15+ with the consumer advice “Strong science fiction violence”.

The Board noted that “the violence depicted in the game can be accommodated within the MA 15+ category as the violent scenes are not prolonged and are interspersed with longer non violent sequences. The violence is fantastical in nature and justified by the context of the game, set in a futuristic science-fiction world, inhabited by aliens and predators. This context serves to lessen its impact. The more contentious violence is randomly generated and is not dependent on player selection of specific moves.”

Got that from the Kotaku AU article.

Makes me hope that people will see how fucking broken our system is and the rest of the civilised world hasnt plunged into Darkness and Chaos because they have ratings for Over 18's...

Swear to god we've gone from being the laid back country who never gave a shit, to the uptight Poms we used to hassle long ago...Sometimes I'm ashamed to live here.

Now you too can be as deranged as American youth, Australia! Congrats!

@Squidoris: For awhile some thought it was canceled alongside Aliens RPG. The dev confirmed it wasn't canceled but said updates would be slim to none until AvP was released.

Fantastic - we get Aliens Vs Predator. Wow. What a weight off my chest.

In other news, we Australians are getting a COMPULSORY INTERNET FILTER. You know, in the same manner as CHINA. You know, in order to "save the children". And don't think you can opt out of it even if you have no children in that house - oh no,

Faaaaaantastic people. Of course this won't succeed - over 90% of Australians oppose this filter. Oh did I mention that the list of banned sites or "blacklist" is secret and secretly determined by a panel of secret government employees with NO public scrutiny?

For you Americans, imagine if your voluntary classification board (which has no official power), suddenly gained the right to decide that anything rated R or above was suddenly illegal for you to see. That's what they are trying to do in Australia. Well, it's what ONE man is trying to do - Steven Conroy (or Comrade Conroy as we like to call him) - our communications minister and an utter idiot of the highest order, who understands absolutely nothing about the internet, yet is given the power to control it.

Of course, this filter will not succeed. On a technical level it cannot possibly process the hundreds of sites made every single day, and it cannot possibly block all the "bad" sites (although what the government determines to be "bad" is again, secret).

You know, in the past 2 days or so China launched a crackdown on "morally harmful" sites. Looks like The People's Republic of Australia will be doing the same next year. And to think my maternal grandparents LEFT China to get away from this sort of thing.

Comrade Conroy obviously thinks that Australian citizens cannot be trusted to monitor their kids. So he's offering to be our parent for us - our overseer as a matter of fact! Save us glorious comrade conroy! Save us from ourselves! Because the best course of action is to let the GOVERNMENT determine what's moral and what's not moral and to determine how we raise our children!

Yes it's the Government's job to protect kids you know! And raise them too! I certainly want my tax dollars to be used to do the job parents are supposed to!

There's two things you can take away from this:

1) Either our government is developing control freak tendencies or
2) Our government thinks we're all idiots and need the benevolent guiding hand of the supreme people's bureaucracy to lead us, LEAD US TO SALVATION!

BACK TO YEAR ZERO! TO A MORE MORALLY PURE TIME! THE STATE SHALL BE OUR SALVATION!

Look, it's great that you Aussies get the unedited version of the game, but isn't this going to complicate things in terms of ratings? It's rated for age 15 and up, when most other Western parts of the world (along with the developer) that the content is for those 17/18 years old and up. I'm glad you're getting the game, since I'm never in favor of censorship, but I can't see how the game is appropriate for that rating.

Atkinson must be turning in his sleep right now....BECAUSE THERES A FACE HUGGER ON HIS FACE!!!!

@snatchtease
I think you're getting confused there, those Nazi imigrants live in a magical country called Argentina, Brazil barely has any German immigrants at all.

FREEEDDOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!

@Korolev: Actually, the 'blacklist' will be determined by a non-government organization, which is probably worse.

It isn't all that surprising that bribes, threats and extortion still work is it?

I'm quite impressed by Sega's backing of Rebellion's decision to refuse an edit for Australia and even moreso that they accomplished a rerate.

I hope that some more well-known studios can muster up the ball strength to tell Australia to fuck off, then get a rerate, and lend credence to the claim that this might change their ratings system. All in the interests of our gaming friends in that place down and below something else.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

LFD2 was submitted twice, once as the original game and a second time with edited content. Once the censors had deemed the edited version to be okay, they were unlikely to revisit the original.

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I will never understand why this movie was banned in the first place. It's a game for crying out loud! And if I must say, it's a really cool and addicting game.

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