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Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia
An anonymous reader writes "According to Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification, Left 4 Dead 2's content exceeds that allowable for an MA15+ rating. Any such game is rated as Refused Classification, effectively banning it. From the report: 'The game contains realistic, frenetic, and unrelenting violence which is inflicted upon "the Infected" who are living humans infected with a rabies-like virus that causes them to act violently. The player can choose from a variety of weapons including pistols, shotguns, machine guns, and sniper rifles. However, it is the use of the "melee" weapons such as the crowbar, axe, chainsaw and Samurai sword which inflict the most damage. These close-in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore.'"
no, but there is such a thing as an R18+ rating for movies, not so for games.
That movie Cannibal Holocaust that was banned in many nations because of its graphical violence. It was banned in Australia but I don't know whether that ban is still taking place. Does anyone know for sure? Acai Berry Detox
The nanny state is a lie, it is typically used by con artists when they complain about the government preventing other people from 'choosing' to believe the lies of the fraudsters and buying into whatever product or service is being marketed. As for banning 'L4D 2' it really seems rather pointless L4D 1 got pretty boring pretty fast, whilst it's cooperative play was interesting at first, overall the game pretty shallow and re playability is pretty low. Nowadays you are more likely to be killed by a bored player than a zombie, so L4D 2, mhh, banned, who cares, plenty of other games to choose from.
As for only adults playing those games, everyone knows that is just a marketing lie, those games are sold in games stores, right along side games specifically targeted at children and, in multilayer it is pretty obvious that people younger than the legal age are frequently playing the game. As for statistics about the average age of game players, another typically marketing lie in the way it is used, let's try the average age of game players playing first person shooters to the average age of game players playing strategy games.
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Having spent time in real war zones and been in full on combat fire fights for 22 hours none stop literally pissing in my pants because if I did not lock and load again, I would have died. Therefore, you need to understand war is very ugly and this game has no place in "sane society". Ask yourself the question about what message this sends out to people? Do you really think this is a game which has no ramifications whatsoever. I would also question your mental state if you think that carving up people is fun and it means nothing. Psychologically, these traits end up with little value for human life, later in life.
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