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GTA 4 gets censored in Australia >:(
Boolean | 11:42 PM on 04.09.2008 14 comments


Despite promises back in February that GTA IV would not be censored in Australia, Rockstar has now said that because of the lack of an R18+ rating that they have had to censor parts of the game. Just what has been censored? Who knows, they aren’t saying.

-Sydney Morning Herald
-Somebody think of the Children! - discussing censorship and moral panic in Australia (cool site I found while looking for information on this)

“A Rockstar spokesperson confirmed to Screen Play yesterday that the company had produced a special version of GTA IV to comply with the Australian classification system, which does not currently contain an R18+ rating, but declined to reveal what material had been cut.

The game has been rated R18+ by the British Board of Film Classification, New Zealand's OFLC and the German Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle. It has been rated M17+ by the Entertainment Software Rating board in North America.”

This comes after Soldier of Fortune 2 was banned, Manhunt 2 being censored, Vice city being censored, GTA3 being banned but later allowed with censorship, Reservoir Dogs banned, 50 Cent: Bulletproof banned, Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under banned (because it features graffiti...yet Jet Set Radio was allowed..ok?). Of course these are just the recent ones.

God bless Australia and its ability to put its hands over its ears and go “LA LA LA LA” for more than 10 years. The result of this will naturally be everyone importing the game, hurting the local industry as a result. Bravo OFLC you pack of retard fucking monkeys, bravo.



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MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 00:16
MrSadistic
are you drunk
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 00:22
Puppy Licks
Yeah it sucks balls, I'm definitely importing
Boolean's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 00:25
Boolean
RobotFart: The only thing I am worried about is if they put region encoding on it. Just about every game on the 360 is region free apart from all the Japanese games and anything from EA, so I'm optimistic at the moment.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 00:37
Aaron Mxy Yost
I blame the stingrays.
Boolean's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 02:32
Boolean
GODDAM STINGRAYS
Sarin's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 02:53
Sarin
It does suck balls.
I cancelled my pre-order and importing now.
Even though its cheaper to import I would have liked to get it on release day :(
Boolean's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 04:24
Boolean
^^

So do you know for sure if it works on a PAL console?
joepaniic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 05:54
joepaniic
the second Crickey made me lol in the office. thanks.
Sarin's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 06:41
Sarin
@Boolean
I'm getting it for the ps3 so its not gonna have region locking for me.
Also its a japanese ps3 anyway
Boolean's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2008 11:42
Boolean
Lucky =)
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