The Classification Board has provided R18+ Games Australia with the full text of their report on the recent Refused Classification awarded to CrimeCraft. According to the report, it was not the initially-suspected violence that was the problem, rather the drug use:

The Applicant has stated: “In CrimeCraft there are drug enhancements called “Boosts”. They are fictional drugs that improve a players stats [sic] while in battle for a small period of time.” In the Board’s opinion, there is insufficient delineation between the “fictional drugs” available in the game and real-world proscribed drugs. Boosts parallel the names, chemical elements, administration, treatment and addictive effects of real-world proscribed drugs and, when used, provide quantifiable benefits to a player’s character. This game therefore contains drug use related to incentives or rewards and should be Refused Classification.

You can download the full report from the Board by clicking here.

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4 Comments on CrimeCraft Classification Report

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   Glenn says:

   So what was OK in Fallout 3 is not okay in CrimeCraft?

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   Steve C says:

   It’s ok in practically every game, except ones the OFLC actually look at. Surely wearing a bra is acceptable considering practically every 15 year old female wears one, could strip down to one in Saint’s Row 2 and make suggestive gestures… maybe the OFLC are too busy looking at transexuals and trailer trash to know anything else… http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/find.nsf/ClassificationsByDate?OpenView

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   Miffy says:

   Okay, fine. But they looked at Fallout 3. Twice. They looked at MSG4 as well. Hell, GTA: Chinatown Wars had REAL drugs, on the DS – a console which is basically aimed at children with adults a close second.

   The way I see it, one of two things needs to change: >classification rules in general, so they make some damn sense.
   >R18 rating laws. I recently deconstructed the released statement by Atkinson, I’m just having some trouble hosting it.

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   josh says:

   @Miffy:

   In GTA China Town, you don’t actually take the drugs, so it’s ok.

   Fallout 3 had the drugs were re-named, so that is ok.

   I don’t know about MGS4.

   At any rate, this would have been RCed with or without an R18+, due to the hole thing of taking the drugs to make you better at what your doing.