Censor Watch

11 responses to “Censor Watch”

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   Gertrude

   January 19, 2009 at 10:42 am

   Thank goodness Imagine: My Restaurant got a G rating! I don’t know how I would have coped if it was banned from Australian shores.

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   Cav

   January 19, 2009 at 12:27 pm

   I’m guessing there are some new staff on the Board!

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3. 

   Gladice

   January 19, 2009 at 12:37 pm

   That’s surprising. I presume “Imagine: My Restaurant” is somewhat like cooking mama, teaching you how best to chop things with kitchen knives. That should have been the first one to be banned. You might as well give the kid a chainsaw and teach them how to use it on unsuspecting elderly folks.

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   cs

   January 19, 2009 at 1:09 pm

   Good post,Happy to hear we got another game into Australia with no edits.

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5. 

   HotDamn!

   January 19, 2009 at 2:26 pm

   @ cs

   However, whether or not the game (GF II) will actually be any good remains to be seen. For something that’s coming out so soon, there’s been very little coverage. The trailers have been meh…

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   Peter

   January 19, 2009 at 2:54 pm

   Lets see how the rest of the world rated The Godfather 2 Game.

   BBFC: 18
   ESRB: M (Mature 16 and over)
   PEGI: 18+
   USK: 18

   Australia loves to let 15 year olds play adult games. We might as well lower the drinking and driving age to 15 as well since they are classed as adults… 1 man in S.A believes all 15 year olds should be playing adult games. He is just too stupid and mixed up to understand. Just sack him already, he has no idea.

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7. 

   Tiger2010

   January 19, 2009 at 3:54 pm

   Does anyone know if Tiger Woods 2010, or Fifa 2010 have passed classification? I’m getting worried as I havent heard anything yet… *sarcasm*

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8. 

   Clocks

   January 19, 2009 at 4:32 pm

   I wonder how much of each of these games the board plays before they decide what rating to give it. Wouldn’t it be great if Ubi slipped in a massive cock right at the end of Imagine: Babysitters or whatever. G rating, all the way!

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9. 

   NegativeZero

   January 19, 2009 at 4:49 pm

   I hate to be the one to point this out since it’s a bit of a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory… but does it strike anyone as odd that the games that the OFLC went after recently were all well-known game series? GTA, Soldier of Fortune, Fallout, Silent Hill… the only one I remember getting RCed which wasn’t an established name already was Dark Sector. Also Dead Space getting through where Silent Hill didn’t should raise some eyebrows too, since it’s a game that has dismemberment as its core mechanic, and it has some remarkably gory and violent bits. But no power drills.

   I’d really love to know the specifics of how they operate. What do they actually do to classify a game?

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    thalgor

    January 19, 2009 at 11:16 pm

    I have come to the conclusion Micheal atkinson is actually the devil, his real goal is to let children play violent games hence why he keeps the rating stuck at MA15 so the worst games won’t be restricted, he knows that games will be censored but he alos know that they can be pacthed/pirated imported too and the level of content being censored is far outweighed by the amount being put in the wrong classification.

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11. 

    bootsy

    January 20, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    .. and according to some US podcasts Godfather 2 has full frontal boobage shown in the strip club in the game…. what the hell? maybe the OFLC have removed the stick from their collective asses, either that or they are still on xmas leave & the janitors are filling in for them….

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