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Written by Beatrix | Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Australia seems to uphold one of the strictest sets of standards when it comes to the censorship of advertisements, television shows, and now computer games in the world. Last year, two computer games, Fall Out and F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, were both rejected by Australian censorship officials. This year, a new online poker/casino game has been rejected by the Australian government as well.
This most recent game to be denied for play by Australian citizens is “Sexy Poker,” which has been formally discarded by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification Board (OFLC). The game was developed by Gameloft, a gaming software development company, and is based on the Nintendo WiiWare, the Internet-based gaming platform counterpart to the Nintendo Wii gaming system.
Sexy Poker was scheduled to be released in Australia sometime this year, but it is doubtful that it will ever even make it to store shelves, nor will players ever even play the game in Australia, legally anyway.
The game is being restricted in Australia due to the fact that it is likened to the idea of strip poker or the representation of taking off one’s clothes as a motivation to win.
Under the control of the OFLC, the R18+ rating (Restricted to viewers age 18 and older) does not even exist in Australia. All of the games that are sold in Australia are rated on a scale that sets the highest rating a game can legally carry at the MA15+ (Mature age 15 and older). What’s gotten Sexy Poker, though, is the no nudity rule upheld by the Classification of Films and Computer games standards, especially when it deems a reward in the game.
As in any everyday game of mainstream strip poker, players must use their clothing to bet. The same is true in Sexy Poker, which offers players the option of choosing from six different female competitors, each one styled and dressed in a sexy themed outfit. Characters include a police officer, a business woman, a nurse, an athlete, and some others—you get the picture.
As each hand of poker is carried out, clothing items are bargained for and ultimately taken off. Because removing clothing to reveal nudity is the underlying theme of Sexy Poker, it is not likely that the game will be able to uphold the strict MA15+ rating in Australia.
Have no worries, though, many countries in Europe and other countries as well, have already approved the game. Soon, Sexy Poker will be made available via WiiWare through the Internet.
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