We reported a while back that the forthcoming inter-species murder-fest, Aliens vs. Predator, had been effectively banned in Australia, being denied even the courtesy of a rating. Well, the publisher appealed - as publisher's are often forced to do in Oz - and to the utter shock of all, they won.
Not only did they win, but the game was approved for release with no edits whatsoever. The "classification board" - so horrified at the intense depictions of violence - apparently decided upon further review that it was all in good fun.
The words "arbitrary" and "capricious" come to mind, especially since Australian gamers have been forced to play a sanitized version of L4D2 as the result of the same farcical rating process. One hopes that some form of bribery was involved in AvP's case, as that would at least make sense.
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