Australian ratings board refuses a rating for Syndicate reboot
Title contains "high-impact violence" says Australian Government Classification Board
The Australian Government Classification Board has refused to give Starbreeze Studio's Syndicate FPS reboot a rating meaning that the game will not be able to be sold down under.
The Aussie ratings body raised concerns over the impact of the violence featured in the game and refused a rating stating that it was unsuitable for those under the age of 18.
The report explained: "The game contains violence that is high in impact and is therefore unsuitable for persons aged 18 years to play. Combatants take locational damage and can be explicitly dismembered, decapitated or bisected by the force of the gunfire. The depictions are accompanied by copious bloodspray and injuries are shown realistically and with detail. Flesh and bone are often exposed while arterial sprays of blood continue to spirt from wounds at regular intervals."
Given that the new R18 rating is not yet legal MA15 is the highest rating available in the country and so Syndicte has effectively been banned.
Thanks Gamasutra.
