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by Blake Ellison, Sep 26, 2008 4:09am PDTDouble Helix's Silent Hill: Homecoming (PC, 360, PS3) has been refused classification by Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification, meaning that the game will not be available for sale unless the game is changed from its current form.
The game has been effectively banned "presumably for excessive violence" according to The Age of Melbourne, Australia.
The Silent Hill sequel is the fourth game this year to be banned from classification, with Bethesda's Fallout 3 being the highest-profile case surrounding its drug content in the game.
Homecoming has not permanently been banned from sale in Australia. It is expected that the game will be tweaked to suit the needs of the OFLC and be released in a censored form. The North American release is still on track for this month, with Europe following in November.
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Why don't they just cut Australia off?
I mean seriously, it's always Australia being a problem. It's always Australia that has to censor the game and in the case of Fallout 3, Australia is the one that caused the game to be changed for everywhere.
It's sort of like American textbooks - California doesn't want something in a textbook and since the companies don't want to make multiple versions of the same book and California is the biggest single customer, California gets to set the textbook standards for the country.
Does Australia really make up that significant a percentage of game sales that they can't just say to heck with them?
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