Wow, I didn't know that it was this violent.  This sounds like my kind of game!

Awww poor babies down under

yet everything in that country is poisonous

Oprah Winfrey is considered too violent for Australia, ;)

@ Enacku:

*shakes head*.. moron.

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Its ashame they banned it but hey, thats their jobs. Thats what you get when we dont carry an R+ rating. But no doubt the decision will be appealed and they will most likely win. I particularly like the statement however, "not stylised at all". I find that quite amusing since the game is clearly a sci-fi horror title where the main protagonist is fighting monsters most of the time. Monsters. Doesnt that count as "stylised"? And does it need a story? I mean where does it say that a game needs a story. What about fighters? Are they gonna be banned because they dont have a storyline. Irrelivent arguments by the OFLC if you ask me and it sounds like a lot moer is going on behind the scenes then that they're really letting on.

I just don't understand Australians.  A former penal colony thinks video games are too violent... Crocodile Dundee would be ashamed...

Violence is such a funny thing isnt it? I dunno what its like in australia but I notice certain things about people's reactions to violence and how the situation changes with regard to the media used. The news, while not giving VERY grahpic images,  describes horric events in detail. Also, Horrificly violent films like Saw, Hostel and others are EAILY obtainable at a local vid store or even viewable on television. ...Trust me, I know kids as old as 9 who hacwe stayed up late enough to watch porn on TV, its not hard for kids to stay up and see adult films. The thing is, they LOVE that stuff.

Now with games, its simulated. They are nothing more than groups of moving pixels. Alos, all things considered, are not as easily available to everyone as say a DVD or a Tv movie, as well as being more controllable...now someone please, PLEASE tell me where the logic lies that games are allowed to get so much slack while movies and such (Which generally outclass most games in terms of violence) dont get a mention? I'm sorry if I''m bringing up things that have been brought up a thousand times before, but stuff like thiis just sickens me, even if it dosent affect me.

@ blachaze

WTF DMC4 should be happy it atleast got an 8 that game is about trash if you ask me nothing new about it.....it should just came out for ps2

what the board did is just to make the title go stealth....the aussies will get it somehow, through orders in the internet and underground sales...the goverment will get no tax out of it...stupid move

@Djrussel called me a "moron"

I'll let that one go, because i can tell that you and your buddies djdummy, djnobrain, djbackdoor, djbj and djimadope are saddened by the news.

psn id: gingo.... WOW!!!!! the australian ratings board are worse than the UK one, why cant they just have the same standards as a film because if this was a film it would have definetely been passed

you know what makes me sick? blachaze... really pathetic....

hmm i dont really know what to say about this violence thing...

but if it fits the game, sure. And Marcelis has a point

that sucks big time. All you guys from Australia have  to do if order it from the US. aand bam you have your game.

Thank God I live in US, but Japan is better cause they get AO games.

Maybe he was talking about burning ppl in a sec by a firey glaive,or maybe about cutting their throats with the glaive,or may be about electricuting your enemies with the glaive.I just can't seem to put my finger on it.lol

On a more serious note though,this game provides NOTHING that can't be classified as an M rating.

Bad luck aussies

Fortunately i live in America but this is rediculous nonetheless, It's a shame that bulls**t like this (and of course much worse bulls**t) happens in the world (including America of course.)

screw aussie ratings

Aww... did they hurt wittle old Australia's feelings.

Well you got a weapon that decapitates peoples head so...lol.

I've checked about 4 online game stores in Australia, and all are still taking pre-orders, set for release in late March.

funny usually its the other way around, usualy Europe is banning games and we are keeping them...

@IONIXX

I second that

violent?ok...lol

i'm glad that i live in france, we don't see games being banned like in australia and i hope it never becomes that way

I heard further into that they've decided to re-evaluate it or something...