Post by Steve Farrelly @ 10:42am 30/06/11 | 21 Comments
The Ratings Board offered content warnings of "Strong horror violence, blood and gore", but sent the game through, unscathed, as we've just learnt from inside sources. Ironically (sort of), its country of origin is Germany - the only other stricter country than us when it comes to videgame classification. Moreover, the game actually just copped an 18+ Rating in the UK, pointing out the disconnect we have with our system here even more so.
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Posted 11:27am 30/6/11
Posted 11:33am 30/6/11
Posted 11:40am 30/6/11
Dead Island E3 2011 Trailer
Posted 12:00pm 30/6/11
Posted 12:06pm 30/6/11
whereas in Dead Island they're 'zombies' ?
I seem to recall something about this when L4D2 was coming out. pretty silly really since there is no graphical difference between what you call them, but what you name them makes all the difference to the classification board?
Posted 01:56pm 30/6/11
Yeah, this was my first thought too. Mortal Kombat is all over-the-top comical violence and gets RC'd, this is gritty and realistic looking but yeah, thats fine. No sense at all =\
Posted 02:26pm 30/6/11
However yes, the ratings board in Oz is far too inconsistent. Seems to be a matter of luck for game development as to whether a game is banned or allowed.
Thankful that it's not banned, hate to have to jump through hoops like I did with L4D2, looking forward to this game.
Posted 03:01pm 30/6/11
Posted 03:12pm 30/6/11
Posted 03:20pm 30/6/11
Posted 03:22pm 30/6/11
The main issue with the board regarding LFD2 was the violence. Can't find the video but there was an Ausgamers vid showing the dramatic difference of the same gameplay recorded in both the Uncensored & Australian censored. It was pretty much a joke, zombies were disappearing before they even hit the ground.
I wouldn't try to understand the current rating standards use to classify games in AU at the moment, it will just hurt your brain.
Posted 03:51pm 30/6/11
Posted 05:58pm 30/6/11
I'll have to look up the original R/C page, had it for a while in my favourites but formatted 4 times since.
Anyway, still glad this is MA15+ and not RC. Less loopholes to get it in Oz.
Posted 06:37pm 30/6/11
I've only played it about 3 times because without the zombies piling up & clogging up you're view which makes the game so hectic, they were just dissapearing, made the game so easy to play as it took the whole 'oh hell here's a s***-ton of zombies to wade through' out of the gameplay experience, which is what L4D is all about.
Posted 07:38pm 30/6/11
Posted 07:53pm 30/6/11
all you've gotta do is download it, or get someone else to obtain it for you.
sigh.
Posted 08:02pm 30/6/11
I put up with the lowered violence for a while to see how the game was, but found the bodies disappearing before hitting the ground interfered with the gameplay - had no confirmation much of the time whether i registered a kill or not. Just had to assume the zombie was dead and not running around the van/room trying to get at me from another angle.
Dead Island looks good, but from the previous vid I saw I think the gameplay might get boring very quickly!
Posted 09:04pm 30/6/11
Posted 11:05am 01/7/11
Out of all the games that have come out in the last 5-10 years and have recived MA15+ that have the same if not more Gore, zombies, infected giving yourself needles etc. Left 4 Dead 2 got the Ban Hammer?
Still all this classification crap reminds me of when Carmageddon came out and it was front page news that all the children would want to go murder everyone in cars Hahaha good times. Want someone think of the children.
Ohh yeah shameless link
http://atombomb.no-ip.org/blog/2010/12/10/how-to-play-carmageddon-and-splat-pack-with-3dfx-emulation-in-high-resolution/
Posted 11:26am 01/7/11
Also, I believe even if everyone wails and cries, the classification board can't change a classification until it comes out. Least that's what happened with GTA:SA.
Posted 10:07am 21/7/11