By now we all know that Silent Hill: Homecoming has been refused classification in Australia. But why? Was it the violence? The gore? The horror? What makes it different to the other Silent Hill games that were all approved of a rating?

GamesonNet have got their hands on the OLFC's report that explains why the game has been banned. Go to the source for the full article.

With a quicker-than-usual turnaround, I have here the Classification Board's report on Silent Hill: Homecoming.

Those of you thinking that all the killing and violence involved in the series had something to do with the restrictions are correct - the Board found that the game contained violence that is "high in impact", and that is what prompted their decision.

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"The violence is considered highly impactful in such scenes as where an electric drill is explicitly forced through Alex's right eye socket, remaining there for an extended period as Alex screams and blood sprays from the wound. There are several scenarios in which this means of death is used, on one occasion the drill being wielded by a zombie-nurse and on another by a woman named Margaret. In an alternative scenario, Alex turns the drill on his attacker and the drill is explicitly forced up through the woman's chin until she falls to the floor with the drill embedded in her skull."

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"The monsters Alex encounters are a strange mélange of human and monster. In one scene Alex encounters a creature with a human body shape and a long, barbed, spade-shaped head. Using his head as a weapon, the creature explicitly bisects Alex, the two parts of the body lying separately on the ground, with copious blood spray."

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The Board considers that the cumulative effect of this type of violence is high and as such cannot be accommodated at the MA 15+ classification.

Miss Razz via games.on.net »