Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back banned down under

Quote:

"The censor said that when the enemy is shot from close range, the blood spray is substantial, especially when a high-calibre weapon is used, and blood splatters onto the ground and walls in the environment.

Targeting limbs of the opponents can result in the limb flying off with large amounts of blood spraying forth from the stump. Sometimes the pixel person may remain alive before eventually dying from the wounds."

Cool :)

Got to try that.

Its strange to think that convicts dont like violent games ;)

Andy

PS: Rugby - HAHA

well by the sound of it UT3 (unreal tournament 3) will not make it to AU.
they have a new weapon called the impact hammer which obliterates your opponents and splatters the screen with blood.

fyi its still a beta demo but its sweet.

Aww

Looks like ill have to import another game


Gay government

shuttup and eat your teabag

So now my government is promoting piracy... 


The entire classification system here in Australia is arse, almost as much as the english soccer team. 
I haven't been to fussed over missing the banned games to date, but i did want to play this one. Now I will have to import the bastard from Singapore. The OFLC has it's head stuck in the 19th century, they'd be banning dickens if they could. Oh well. lets see if it takes another 16 years for you to get ashes back. Tally-ho boys, pip pip.

Hey,

Just because some old fart censors ludicrously ban what is probably a fun game doesn't mean us Aussies are wussies.

Personally sounds pretty cool to me.

Why don't you go back to your grid iron or whatever other fairy game u probably play.

I wonder if customs is going to inspect every incoming shipment for copies of this game, bought (for a much lower price) online from overseas.

No, I didn't think so. So it's been refused classification, that's not going to stop people who want it from buying it, much less warezing it.

There is bigger picture to this censorship than the previous moron knows. Australia has become the #1 country for total control and along with our censorship laws all our public assets have been sold off to foreign corp's and we are the most over regulated country in the world. This is what is coming and everything gets tested here first so act now or lose your freedoms.

Sadly they are making the game go from awesome to crap. People dont get scared from exploding limbs, its realisim.. Its no different from de sensitising people when they shoot Players or non player characters in games.

I think this is an awesome feature and if they block it in australia Many many gamers will just download it through torrents... Way to go to promote piracy.

@Bryan

The impact hammer has been around since UT 1, it's not new at all.

Look like all the vegemite is getting to the politicians heads :p

GREEEEAAATTT...

I may have bought it if was on the shelf, else I wouldn't have known about it.

NOW I'm just going to have to pirate it to see just how bad it is...Government is giving me no choice but to break laws :(

I live in Australia, and our government is crap at everything except managing the economy. 

We don't even have the right of free-speech here.

They also decided a couple of years ago that GTA: San Andreas was too crude for our senses due to an optional add-on, that allowed the player to initiate in sexual conduct with an AI character. Even though this add-on was optional they saw fit to ban it.

Not that I would have played it on the Xbox360 anyway cause that controller sucks for fps... but having some old bustard with his head stuck in the 1950's tell me that I am not allowed to play it.... that really p*sses me off.

What are they thinking? Anyone else here watch the Saw and Hostel movies in the cinema? not to mention countless war movies depicting exactly what is in that game only in a vastly more graphic and realistic way...

Way past time for a change of government methinks.


I think the censors are going too far and it may well be counter productive. 

By sanitizing killing they are almost making it acceptable.

Some of the most powerful anti war films I've seen are those that show the full horror of war or at least as close as you can get on a screen.

The impact hammer is not new. It's in the original Unreal Tournament.
http://www.wshin.com/images/games_2/Unreal_Tournament/weapons/Impact_Hammer.jpg

Maybe they could change the spilling blood to something else, like flowers. That way teenagers would learn it isn't so bad when you shoot someone.

I'm a 20yo aussie and all the ban does it make me want to check out the game more. If people would just come to there senses that video games aren't the root of all evil, and asign a decent rating scheme thats in line with the intended audience then we wouldn't have stupid decisions like this one!

...currently means Australian *adults* are banned from games and movies if it does not qualify as R16 rating.

Australian adults are treated like 16-year olds!

Do what I just did, write to your local house of Reps member, complain and then go and pirate the software.

The current system is doing nothing except encouraging piracy. Do you really think a 15 year old kid wont manage to get their hands on the software because its been banned?

The government is just saving teenagers from spending 90 bucks and buying the game.

I men for God's sake, when is the OFLC going to do some freakin research?!!? 

Yes, the average age of gamers is 2-bloody-8. And how about this, it promotes drug use. And what exactly do various shooting up locations do? Discourage drug use??? 

Stop the insanity! Give us an 18 rating!

And yes, I WILL illegally copy this game now.

Don't think good
Don't think not GOOD
It's a game how many firms have more in them,think grey not in black and white.
Take care all and happy sailing