South Australian Attorney-General and the man stopping an R18+ rating for videogames in Australia, Michael Atkinson, despises the record breaking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Atkinson has announced that he'll be challenging the OFLC's MA15+ rating, after the game has already been released and broken sales records worldwide.
"I’ll be appealing against that classification, I think it’s wrong. [It] doesn’t surprise me," Atkinson told ABC radio."The Classification Board in Australia does everything to try to get games in under the radar. But just because the system is not being applied properly, it does not mean that the principles of the system are wrong."
"What I want the Classification Board to do is to apply the guidelines properly. What I don’t want is the extremely violent, sexually depraved, drug use games in Australia at all. At the cinema, we can stop people under 18 going in to see R18+ rated movies. We can’t stop these games that are extremely violent and depraved from getting into the home or getting into the hands of children."
Atkinson went on to further question the ability of the OFLC to apply rating guidelines correctly. By contrast, the OFLC has a reputation for being rather conservative in the gaming community.
If the appeal does go ahead, however, Modern Warfare 2 will be pulled from Aussie shelves until it is resolved and cleared with an MA15+ rating again (which it almost definitely will be).
News Article by: Ben
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23/11/2009
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