If there’s one thing that seems to get Bethesda in trouble with their games, it’s that they make their worlds too open. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion featured drug addicts, brothels, and full-frontal nudity of burnt corpses that gave the game a M rating after its release. Yum.
Well, they didn’t pull any punches with the Fallout 3 material they submitted for a rating from the Australian Office of Film & Literature Classification. The the jump to see how that turned out, though I bet you can guess. Our readers are pretty sharp.
According to Kotaku AU and the website for the Australian Office of Film & Literature Classification, Fallout 3 has received a RC, or Refused Classification. Since games in Australia aren’t allowed to receive R18+ rating, titles like Dark Sector initially received the RC and was forced to be edited before being able to be sold in the country. Other titles like Grand Theft Auto IV submitted an already edited version of the game to avoid the RC and recieve the MA15+ rating.
It’s starting to seem like the rating systems in many countries around the world are becoming more of a burden to the industry than it should be. I personally believe that developers should be able to make any game they feel like, and get a rating for it, even if it means only older folks like VinDali would be able to buy it.
As for Fallout 3, there’s no information on just why it got the RC. My guess would be the amount of violence and drug use that’s in the game. It will likely be edited for release in Australia, but the most hardcore of gamers will probably import it like they did for GTAIV when it got censored.
Fallout 3 is set for release later this year. Hopefully rating problems don’t cause any sort of delay.
Siurce: SarcasticGamer.com
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