Drew Taylor, Editor of JumpButton magazine, has sent in an open letter to Australia's Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, encouraging the MP to overturn the decision to refuse classification for Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. Drew puts a case in response to the official press release by the OFLC Review Board on the grafitti game ban....
I write, urging you to overturn the OFLC Review Board?s recent decision to refuse classification to the computer game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure on the grounds that the ban was unfounded, given the guidelines set down in the Act and the Classification of Films and Computer Games 2005.I put forward the case that the decision made by the Board does not meet the requirements outlined, in that the videogame Getting Up does not provide ?detailed instruction or promotion in matters of crime or violence? when compared to previous OFLC classifications and decisions, and the large array of information already freely available.
Like that would do anything
I used to work for a large game developer/publisher in th UK. I know for a fact that they used to love it when Australia banned a game. Free exposure you see, Australia is a Non-market, that is, sales here are always going to be negligable even when they're good, but when kranky backwarks downunder land bans a game the whole world hears about the controversy, that's good publicity!
aside: Trust me don't bother with this game, spend your hard earnts on something else.