Welcome to Australia, a land of sunburn, scary spiders, beaches and a government that bans video games all the time! This time, our sunburned country has banned the new Syndicate reboot.
“… an intense sequence of violence commences when a player collect a g290 minigun, which operates much like a Gatling gun. A player moves through a building rapidly firing at enemy combatants.” The Australian Classification Board reports. “Combatants take locational damage and can be explicitly dismembered, decapitated or bisected by the force of the gunfire. The depictions are accompanied by copious bloodspray and injuries are shown realistically and with detail. Flesh and bone are often exposed while arterial sprays of blood continue to spirt from wounds at regular intervals.”
“The game also allows a player to repeatedly damage enemy combatant’s corpses. This is shown in realistic depictions. For example, it is possible for a player to decapitate a corpse with a headshot before individually blowing off each of its limbs. Depending on the weapon used, it is also possible to bisect a corpse, with realistic ragdoll effects noted. The depictions are again accompanied by arterial sprays of blood and detailed injuries that include protruding bone.”
Alright, so that does actually sound pretty violent, and probably isn’t a game that should be made available to just anyone as it would be with an MA15+ rating. Yet another example of why it’s time for Australia to have an R18+ rating for games.
It’s unknown at this time if EA will resubmit the game for classification, but given the amount of changes that would need to be made, it’s unlikely.
[Source: Kotaku]
