It's certainly a great gaming period right now if you're into first person shooters, with the release or imminent release of big titles like Halo 3, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Unreal 3, Call of Duty 4, and Soldier of Fortune: Payback. However, if you were looking forward to the latest iteration of Soldier of Fortune, you're very much out of luck. The OFLC has refused classification for the title, and as always, their reasons are perhaps the most interesting part of the news. An OFLC spokeswoman from the OFLC board said that Soldier of Fortune: Payback won't be hitting our shelves because of "playing impact... was a high impact which exceeded the MA15+ classification". As reported from Gamespot AU...
Some specific examples included "close range shooting with substantial blood spray, blood splatters onto the ground and walls, [the ability to] target various limbs of the opponent which can result in dismemberment, and large amounts of blood sprayed which comes from the stump but victims sometime stay alive".
Perhaps Activision will go the way of offering this via digital distribution instead like Running with Scissors and their game Postal...
1. Jguzz007 Mon, 22 Oct
There really needs to be an R18 rating put in place for video games. Adults play games too!
So who's gonna pick this one up off ebay? haha
Banning games just gives the game some free publicity and promotes piracy.
You Australians need to get your self-regulated video game decency board a kick up the bum.
Love,
New Zealand.
Our what now?