@19James89 @rawkstar007 games have been censored in the uk way back in the early 90's, since australia and euro is pal, australia most likely get a censored version
@CrouchingWeasel @darthturkey @rbereczki ok christians arent in charge, but the is a group called Australian Christian Lobby, who are in the goverment, and are agaisnt violent games and dont wont a R rating for games.
here is the r rated games guild lines here in australia, you will see that sexual violence and drug use that give effect isnt allowed
Interactivity and realistic drug use are still big issues in the rating of video games, even at the R18+ level.
The Australian Classification Board has jsut released the new overall guidelines for games classifiction, including the new R18+ rating, to be introduced early next year.
You can have a look at the entire document here, but the relevant section is pasted below:
R 18+ - RESTRICTED Impact test The impact of material classified R 18+ should not exceed high. Note: Material classified R 18+ is legally restricted to adults. Some material classified R 18+ may be offensive to sections of the adult community. Classifiable elements
THEMES There are virtually no restrictions on the treatment of themes.
VIOLENCE Violence is permitted. High impact violence that is, in context, frequently gratuitous, exploitative and offensive to a reasonable adult will not be permitted. Actual sexual violence is not permitted. Implied sexual violence that is visually depicted, interactive, not justified by context or related to incentives or rewards is not permitted.
SEX Depictions of actual sexual activity are not permitted. Depictions of simulated sexual activity may be permitted. Depictions of simulated sexual activity that are explicit and realistic are not permitted.
LANGUAGE There are virtually no restrictions on language.
DRUG USE Drug use is permitted. Drug use related to incentives and rewards is not permitted. Interactive illicit or proscribed drug use that is detailed and realistic is not permitted.
NUDITY Nudity is permitted.
It could be argued that this isn't that different from the previous MA15 rating, as the issues of, for instance, drug use for reward is still a no-no. So, effectively, random and meaningless drug abuse is A-okay in a game, so long as it's not realistic.
The guidelines on sexual activity or similarly vague, and actually make it sound like games such as Mass Effect 3 (where I'd say the sex is far from 'implied') would now become R-rated. And speaking of sex, where would this leave games such as the new Tomb Raider, or even Hitman: Absolution. There may not be any actual sexual violence in these titles, but it is certainly implied.
And then, of course, the guideline still takes the stance that interactive violence is more impactful. "...as a general rule computer games may have a higher impact than similarly themed depictions of the classifiable elements in film, and therefore greater potential for harm or detriment..."
At the end of the day, though, these are just guidelines, and their interpretation is what's going to have the most impact. We can only hope the people enforcing this new code are as game literate as possible, otherwise we're not really getting anything new at all.
@36Chambers93 read this guildlines from september last year
Interactivity and realistic drug use are still big issues in the rating of video games, even at the R18+ level.
The Australian Classification Board has jsut released the new overall guidelines for games classifiction, including the new R18+ rating, to be introduced early next year.
You can have a look at the entire document here, but the relevant section is pasted below:
R 18+ - RESTRICTED Impact test The impact of material classified R 18+ should not exceed high. Note: Material classified R 18+ is legally restricted to adults. Some material classified R 18+ may be offensive to sections of the adult community. Classifiable elements
THEMES There are virtually no restrictions on the treatment of themes.
VIOLENCE Violence is permitted. High impact violence that is, in context, frequently gratuitous, exploitative and offensive to a reasonable adult will not be permitted. Actual sexual violence is not permitted. Implied sexual violence that is visually depicted, interactive, not justified by context or related to incentives or rewards is not permitted.
SEX Depictions of actual sexual activity are not permitted. Depictions of simulated sexual activity may be permitted. Depictions of simulated sexual activity that are explicit and realistic are not permitted.
LANGUAGE There are virtually no restrictions on language.
DRUG USE Drug use is permitted. Drug use related to incentives and rewards is not permitted. Interactive illicit or proscribed drug use that is detailed and realistic is not permitted.
NUDITY Nudity is permitted.
It could be argued that this isn't that different from the previous MA15 rating, as the issues of, for instance, drug use for reward is still a no-no. So, effectively, random and meaningless drug abuse is A-okay in a game, so long as it's not realistic.
The guidelines on sexual activity or similarly vague, and actually make it sound like games such as Mass Effect 3 (where I'd say the sex is far from 'implied') would now become R-rated. And speaking of sex, where would this leave games such as the new Tomb Raider, or even Hitman: Absolution. There may not be any actual sexual violence in these titles, but it is certainly implied.
And then, of course, the guideline still takes the stance that interactive violence is more impactful. "...as a general rule computer games may have a higher impact than similarly themed depictions of the classifiable elements in film, and therefore greater potential for harm or detriment..."
At the end of the day, though, these are just guidelines, and their interpretation is what's going to have the most impact. We can only hope the people enforcing this new code are as game literate as possible, otherwise we're not really getting anything new at all.
@Earthbound_X yes australia has a problem with drugs, they mention last year when the R rating was introduce that if games had drugs which gave you some type of effect that will RC even with R rating
here is the new guildlines that was introduce in Thursday 13 September 2012
Interactivity and realistic drug use are still big issues in the rating of video games, even at the R18+ level.
The Australian Classification Board has jsut released the new overall guidelines for games classifiction, including the new R18+ rating, to be introduced early next year.
You can have a look at the entire document here, but the relevant section is pasted below:
R 18+ - RESTRICTED Impact test The impact of material classified R 18+ should not exceed high. Note: Material classified R 18+ is legally restricted to adults. Some material classified R 18+ may be offensive to sections of the adult community. Classifiable elements
THEMES There are virtually no restrictions on the treatment of themes.
VIOLENCE Violence is permitted. High impact violence that is, in context, frequently gratuitous, exploitative and offensive to a reasonable adult will not be permitted. Actual sexual violence is not permitted. Implied sexual violence that is visually depicted, interactive, not justified by context or related to incentives or rewards is not permitted.
SEX Depictions of actual sexual activity are not permitted. Depictions of simulated sexual activity may be permitted. Depictions of simulated sexual activity that are explicit and realistic are not permitted.
LANGUAGE There are virtually no restrictions on language.
DRUG USE Drug use is permitted. Drug use related to incentives and rewards is not permitted. Interactive illicit or proscribed drug use that is detailed and realistic is not permitted.
NUDITY Nudity is permitted.
It could be argued that this isn't that different from the previous MA15 rating, as the issues of, for instance, drug use for reward is still a no-no. So, effectively, random and meaningless drug abuse is A-okay in a game, so long as it's not realistic.
The guidelines on sexual activity or similarly vague, and actually make it sound like games such as Mass Effect 3 (where I'd say the sex is far from 'implied') would now become R-rated. And speaking of sex, where would this leave games such as the new Tomb Raider, or even Hitman: Absolution. There may not be any actual sexual violence in these titles, but it is certainly implied.
And then, of course, the guideline still takes the stance that interactive violence is more impactful. "...as a general rule computer games may have a higher impact than similarly themed depictions of the classifiable elements in film, and therefore greater potential for harm or detriment..."
At the end of the day, though, these are just guidelines, and their interpretation is what's going to have the most impact. We can only hope the people enforcing this new code are as game literate as possible, otherwise we're not really getting anything new at all.
@ferraro01170 i dont think they have problem with probe weapon now, it mainly just drug content in which that one mission had to be cut. we just have to wait and see if the dlc is banned or not, they could just simply change the probe gun to something else less sexual
@rbereczki this so called alien gun is only in the dlc not just australia but world wide now, and whoopy do its only one mission that they removed, and its a optional mission not a main mission, dont like what the classifiedcation done, dude buy it off e bay, or if you got a powerful computer download the pc version of torrents, do you know that the classifiedcation department are run bye wussy christians who like dont like drugs or sexual violence, get them out things might change, atleast we not getting the german version which are normally heavily cut due to violence
darthturkey's comments