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Radioactive IT Silent Hill banning, now we play the ‘waiting game’
Radioactive IT Silent Hill banning, now we play the ‘waiting game’ | Silent Hill banning, now we play the ‘waiting game’ |
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Wednesday, 01 October 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 3 So far this year there have been three games refused classification for the Australian market by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC). Silent Hill: Homecoming is number four. According to an update to the banning on the local IGN site , the OFLC; "cited several high impact scenes in the game, mostly focusing on drilling into and severing body parts. One scene in particular that was highlighted as a problem involved Alex (the main character) having a drill forced into his right eye socket, which caused a lot of blood to spray out." There were other scenes cited by the OFLC who seem to have taken a stand against the use of power drills in interactive entertainment. The OFLC has it hands tied in regard to classification of games, banning a game by refusing classification is done under the legislated guidelines currently in place. In order for the legislation to be altered, a directive needs to come from Australia’s own Silent Hill, Parliament house - or more specifically the States Attorneys-General. CONTINUED |
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