snip Firstly this game has very little actual gore unless you think red paint is scary. Secondly Australia will soon have its R18+ rating, as the law allowing it was passed federally. However ratings are managed on a state level so it still needs to be sorted out there before we actually get the R18+ rating. In the mean time it's important to note the sum total of all games that have been denied a rating or have been edited to meet the MA 15+ rating is about 50. A lot of the ones that didn't make it to our shores weren't very good anyway. (Think Postal). Thirdly, at least Australia doesn't have any states trying to equate games with pornography *cough California *cough. Finally (and on topic), the status of the hive needs to be better communicated. I only saw this topic after seeing a link in a thread about the server being attacked. Going to be ignorant here, but what's the deal with this? I don't know as much about AUS as I'd like, considering I should have been born there but my parents flew back to England to have me, but have you been denied 18 rated games/movies and stuff or what? EU is pretty lax on these things. Still, I don't think Americans have ANY reason to make jokes about it, after all, remember when Janet Jackson popped a nipple out? Oh what an embarrassment at how they over reacted, to a nipple...a NIPPLE. Actually I was wrong, there's hardly any banned/edited games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia Anyway, we for the most part have not been denied R18+ games. They've just been squeezed down into the MA15+ bracket, so funnily enough not having an R18+ rating is probably more "corrupting" than it would be to just have it in place. We get R18+ ratings for everything else, video games have just been a weird exception up till now. I'm not entirely sure why. Edit* Also I agree that overall I think Americans have had a much worse rap when it comes to crazy prudishness.