The Ban-hammer strikes again!

It's never fun when gamers hear that their favourite game is banned. The game you have been waiting on for so long but will never reach your hands! Sure you can import it, but you want the game now, not in two weeks. Games like Manhunt, Shellshock 2: Blood Trails, Postal 2 and (more recently) Syndicate have received the “Refused Classification” label. Certain games like Alien vs Predator, Left 4 Dead 2, Fallout 3 and F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin found themselves in Australian Stores eventually (the reason being they got tinkered with to not be so brutally violent). Games for Xbox Original/360, PS1/2/3, PC/Mac and Nintendo (don’t make me start the Nintendo list) have been banned, but the new PS Vita (released recently) may be seeing its first banned game.

Last year (2011) in the month of February we saw our favourite game Mortal Kombat 9 being banned. Lots of copies were imported but that doesn’t mean they were legally allowed in Australia. Now it looks as though the new Mortal Kombat game for the PS Vita will be banned too.  Now Mortal Kombat for PS Vita is going to go through the same pain Mortal Kombat 9 did (not being advertised, displayed or sold here in Australia) and Warner Brothers had this to say:

“Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment submitted Mortal Kombat Vita for classification to the Australian Classification Board as we believed that the smaller screen of the PlayStation Vita greatly reduced the impact of violence. This view was not shared by the Australian Classification Board and as such has been Refused Classification in Australia.”

It's a shame that we have to lose yet another brilliant game to the rather random ban-hammer of the Australian Classification Board. Even though it has already been confirmed that games will be receiving the needed R18+ classification, we should still prepare ourselves for more banned games. Last year I imported Mortal Kombat and I loved it, it was a shame then and it is a shame now that we will be saying goodbye to a fantastic series and fantastic game, Mortal Kombat.

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