Australia bans Fear 2
According to various reports, its now confirmed that Fear 2 has beed banned in Australia.
Australian gamers are once again forbidden to enjoy a great game as F.E.A.R. 2 has been given the axe via the Australian Censor Board as “Refused Classification”.
The strict standards provided by the Australian censor board has led to banning of other games too which included Silent Hill: Homecoming, Shellshock 2: Blood Trails, Dark Sector, and Fallout 3.
This ban means that its illegal to sell or even bring into the country. In Australia, the highest rating available for a game is MA15+, as opposed to other forms of media, such as film or DVDs, which have an R18+ classification that prohibits sales to anyone under the age of 18.
The reasons stated for the ban was its “high-impact violence”.
Here’s what the Board report has to say :
“The violence is considered highly impactful in such scenes as where Michael uses his sub machine gun to explicitly bisect an enemy, the two parts of the body lying separately on the ground, with copious blood spray. There are also a number of explicit close range decapitations involving both human and mutant creatures. The decapitations are the result of close-up throat slashing from behind and close-up gunshots to the throat”
Warner Bros. Interactive is said to appeal against this decision to ensure that this game gets released in Australia ! Lets wait and watch…..
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