Another Game “Banned” In Australia
By Aiden Chen |
Necrovision – which, to be honest, we’d forgotten all about – has been effectively banned in Australia, after the local Classification Board deemed it unsuitable for an MA15+ rating.
http://kotaku.com/250199/necrovision-+-an-evil-twist-on-the-war-fps
Those in the know will know that, in Australia, MA15+ is as high as the ratings for video games go, with no legal grounds (yet) to rate a game “adults only” (or, as it would be known here, R18+). So the game hasn’t technically been banned, but it may as well have been, since it’s the Board’s way of politely saying “well, we’d have given this an R18+ if we could, but we can’t, so stores aren’t allowed to sell it under Australian classification laws”.
[[link]]There’s been no explanation from the Classification Board as to why, exactly, the game was knocked back, but being a game about the undead in the First World War, it’s most likely go to do with gore and/or violence.
For the record, the game was released earlier this year in Europe on the PC to a decidedly lukewarm reception.
Necrovision banned [[link]] in Australia [GameSpot]