Silent Hill: Homecoming, the latest game in the survival horror franchise from Konami, has been refused classification by the Australian Classification Board.
A screenshot of Silent Hill: Homecoming. Decapitation, whilst effective, will also make the censors squeamish.
The local distributor of the game, Atari, told GameSpot that the ACB found issue with the high impact of Silent Hill’s violence. Examples used by the board in its report include copious blood spray in the game, decapitations, partially dismembered corpses, and numerous scenes of attacks, fights, torture, and death.
If the developers decide to edit the game and resubmit it for classification, it will not be until 2009.
This is the fourth game to be banned in Australia this year. Dark Sector, Shellschock 2, and Fallout 3 were also victims of Australia’s classification system. This latest ban has some gamers worried that Resident Evil 5 may suffer the same fate in 2009.
Update 30/09/2008 8PM: Atari plans to get Konami to modify the game’s violence so they can resubmit it for a Q1 2009. Via IGN. I’m sure most fans will order the unedited version.
4 comments
Sean the Blogonaut says:
Sep 29, 2008
When will they realise that these games are being created by adults for adults.
Stevian says:
Sep 30, 2008
While the game designers were adults with adult sensibilities, designing games for adult sensibilities, the marketers are only interested in profits. Most adults have adult responsibilities (car payments, mortgages, bills) while it is the kids that have the discretionary income. So the marketers market towards the kids. Of course the parents, 20 per cent of whom are unfit, don’t care. It’s like with “South Park”, it’s a cartoon = it’s for kids. People, for the most part, are idiots.
Kody says:
Apr 22, 2009
This is gay it is a good game and it doesnt deserve to be banned just because of the bllod spary and the amount of blood.
domino says:
Feb 19, 2011
Well if these people have seen on the cover they do have an age restriction of 18+ so its the parents fault if the kids get scarred for life. i am a huge fan of silent hill even though it scares me half to death its awesome!!!