Australia Bans Gta

[rabbits with hats]

Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification have ordered that GTA: San Andreas be removed from store shelves Friday, effectively banning sales of the game.

 

[Goity]

speaking of bans, has manhunt been unbanned? I saw it in WHsmith the other day.

 

[Wildheart Baby]

was it banned?

silly australian film board, its fantasy after all

 

[Twimfy]

The australians ban everything.

Vodka served with red bull (or equivalent) is one of their worst crimes, so what if I want to speed up and slow down my heart rate at the same time.

 

[Mark]

speaking of bans, has manhunt been unbanned? I saw it in WHsmith the other day.

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No games have ever been banned in the UK to my knowledge.

 

[spray]

dixons and its various affiliates removed it from shelves following them killin's.

whilst working at smiths at the time of the media frenzy i can say we followed suit and removed it from shelves the same day, but it was back on the shelves as soon as someone did a refill on the shelves.

 

[c0ncept]

Vodka served with red bull (or equivalent) is one of their worst crimes,

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uh. Wrong. I'm in australia now and last time I went out I got shit faced on vodka redbull.

 

[Twimfy]

Vodka served with red bull (or equivalent) is one of their worst crimes,

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uh. Wrong. I'm in australia now and last time I went out I got shit faced on vodka redbull.

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My mistake, it was something I heard on the grapevine.

Damn you grape vine *shakes fist*

 

[c0ncept]

Also, I went into EB the other day and saw that the psp version of gta is 'coming soon'. I wonder if its just the console version that got banned? Source rabbits in hats?

 

[GP40]

No games have ever been banned in the UK to my knowledge.

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I'm pretty sure the first GTA was banned briefly after release and then unbanned shortly after that.

 

[Mark]

How do you mean banned, though? I don't think it was actually outlawed, but as Spray said some shops have a knee-jerk reaction and take the games off the shelves to save their asses.

I may be wrong though.

 

[declaration]

I heard somewhere that Fable is apparently recieving the same treatment for apparently promoting violence against women.

 

[GP40]

How do you mean banned, though? I don't think it was actually outlawed, but as Spray said some shops have a knee-jerk reaction and take the games off the shelves to save their asses.

I may be wrong though.

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Its all abit hazy to me now but I seem to recall it being 'outlawed' for a short period - a week or a fortnight or so. Though I am carp at remembering stuff :unsure:

 

[Twimfy]

Soldier of Fortune 2 required a form to be filled in and signed to prove age in Whsmiths when it was released for the PC way back then.

 

[deadlychicken22]

I think that it was banned because of the "unlockable content" discovered by esrb. Rockstar is working on taking that "unlockable content" out of the game and then rereleasing it.

 

[digitaljez]

The Arctic text adventure games for the Spectrum were withdrawn by Boots and W.H.Smith back in the 80's because you can perform lewd acts. I have notified World of Spectrum that they can expect a sudden heavy load on their servers :lol: