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Most Surprising Game to Make it Past Aussie Censors

Another game banned in Australia? Is that even news anymore? Sadly, the home of Mad Max, AC/DC, and Wolverine (or Hugh Jackman, anyway) is now better known for its draconian game censorship policy. But for every game that gets refused classification Down Under, many more manage to make it past the censors with what seems like a similar--if not the same--type of "questionable" content. Since Left 4 Dead 2 and Aliens vs. Predator were banned in 2009, which one of the games below was the most surprising game to make it past Australia's Classification Board?

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26 Comments

  • Metalhed4lyfe

    Posted Dec 29, 2009 3:33 pm GMT

    haha leisure suit larry is only offensive to anyone who likes video games...its TERRIBLE

  • Tomrock101

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:11 pm GMT

    Leisure suit larry was quite offending I heard.

  • contentxcontext

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 7:30 am GMT

    what!??! compared to mad world??!!!!!

    the world really has gone mad! Well guess ive got to jam a signpost into someones head now.

  • sambob530

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 10:19 am GMT

    Madworld got released in Australia??? If so, why is everyone voting MW2, that wasn't that violent and you could skip No Russian.

  • HavQ-san

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 4:42 pm GMT

    Dragon Age. I'd never thought a game with a (potential) gay sex scene in it could ever break through those barriers.

  • bm1212

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 2:32 pm GMT

    Everyone thought MW2

  • myungish

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 2:04 pm GMT

    prototype for sure. killing innoncents, devouring people... maybe the censor board didnt care coz it was on manhatten

  • e1337prodigy

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 11:46 am GMT

    I don't think people understand this award properly. It's not best game to make it past Aussie censors, It's most surprising. So in my opinion it should be a GTA game since they seem to get the most press for being controversial.

  • oista

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 7:33 am GMT

    haha, what a category!

    Of course they let MW2 through...
    It -just so happened- to be the biggest selling game of all time.

  • linkyshinks

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 7:04 am GMT

    I couldn't care less about their lame censorship board.

  • efc91

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 1:12 am GMT

    COD

  • Quofan

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 3:28 pm GMT

    Im beginning to think CoD fanboys are voting for it just so it will win something regardless of whether it deserves it. Madworld is clearly the most violent.

    In what other game can you slam four signposts through someone's head and proceed to shove them repeatedly on a wall-mounted spike (called a rosebush)? If that werent enough, the commentary: "A rose by any other name, will still f*** you up"

  • gbrading Site moderator

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 1:43 pm GMT

    MadWorld. The game is nothing but dismemberment in particularly gruesome ways.

  • lukas1051

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 10:43 am GMT

    Prototype was really quite a sickening game...

  • dahui58

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:57 am GMT

    Madworld is a lot more suprising. I wasn't suprised when MW 2 got through, they'd be idiots to ban a game as big as that.

  • English-Lion

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:52 am GMT

    Dragon Age: Origins! this very good to!
    but will not win this one.

  • rht992

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:51 am GMT

    uh in call of duty you don't even have to shoot them?

  • English-Lion

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:50 am GMT

    Modern Warfare was always gonna win!
    Good one Modern Warfare 2 you win this one!

  • Hairygrim

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:48 am GMT

    Prototype had excessive levels of violence - chopping people in half, absorbing them bloodily, & pounding their faces into mush kinda won it for me.

  • TeeJ76

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:11 am GMT

    Modern Warfare was always gonna win this category the same way it will win in every category simply because it's Modern Warfare 2 and not because it actually deserves to win. For me Madworld edges it because of the extreme amounts of blood (albeit cartoony) and violent nature of the game.

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