Australia has established a precedent of having a tough video game classification system thanks to recent bannings of games like Dark Sector and Shellshock 2, and earlier today an upcoming high-profile game joined that list as Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 3 will not be allowed to be sold in the country.
The reason for this Australia’s Office and Film Literature Classification System, whose ratings for games only go as high as MA 15+. Thus, if it can’t be deemed suitable for someone 15 years of age, it won’t be sold.
Some have already speculated that this is because of the game’s use of the drug morphine, which presents a conflict with the system’s explicit rule that “depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults”.
This has got to suck for gamers down under, as the only option they’d have to play this is through importing.
Fallout 3 banned in Australia - [GameSpot]
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