We Support an R18+ game Classification

Smell that? I love that smell, smells like... victory. I'm sure that Apocalypse Now quote was thrown around the office at Rebellion at least once at the news the OFLC has unanimously decided to award Aliens Versus Predator an MA 15+ rating in Australia. Aliens Versus Predator will meet its release date of February 18 next year on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 with all its goretastic content intact (as evidenced above). While this is good news I can't help but have questions.

Such as, how can this be a Refused Classification one day of the week and then a unanimous approval the next? Is the above image really less controversial than the content of Left 4 Dead 2 considering it's an act of violence against a real human as opposed to a human like zombie type character? Was the appeal review handled by the same staff that determined the initial RC?

I would love, absolutely love, for the curtain to be pulled back and for us to get a very clear picture of how these decisions are made. I'm talking about minutes of review sessions, audio files of discussions, guidelines that are adhered to. Given that the OFLC's decisions and actions affect all Australians and aren't a matter of national security it stands to reason their process should be completely transparent to the public.

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Moko

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"CLEAR" *PUVVVVP

"BREATHE DAMMIT"

GAAAAAAAASP

It's ok guys, they resuscitated me.

Saturday 19 December 2009, 01:42

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Moko

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Bit smelly though. I wonder how many we'll lose "for the cause" when they see this on the shelves.

Saturday 19 December 2009, 01:58

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lorrie

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Aaron, what happens (from memory) is there are 3 different groups that classify games.
When a game is re submitted another group does the re classification to remove any bias.

Saturday 19 December 2009, 03:25

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Aaron.Mitchell

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Hmmm, well that would make sense. I wonder if we can just get group too to do all the classifications from now on?

Saturday 19 December 2009, 04:27

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hairydogau

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or just get the game makers to resubmit all the time sounds like if you do it enough times they will give in

Sunday 20 December 2009, 08:24

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lorrie

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It can only be resubmitted once and it costs them 10,000 bucks to do so

Sunday 20 December 2009, 11:20

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Serblander

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That's great news for all. For myself though, i'm still holding out for the version that has the best Collectors Edition/pre-order special. Hopefully there will be one and released over here as well. Can't wait for this one! (as well as for Colonial Marine)

Sunday 20 December 2009, 10:16

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