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Australia's Classification Board is refusing to grant a rating to Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, effectively banning the sequel to everyone's favourite top-down f***-'em-up from sale in the country that brought us Mad Max. The Australian Classification Board said that "The computer game is classified RC [Refused Classification] in accordance with the National Classification Code, Computer Games Table, 1. (a) as computer games that 'depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.'"
According to Kotaku Australia, the offending material comes down to a rape scene. Kotaku has the full report, and it's definitely not for the squeamish, but if you're curious, here goes: It basically comes down to the player character gruesomely slaughtering some male foes, knocking a woman to the ground, lowering his pants, then thrusting into her rear while a red backdrop pulsates in the background. Contextually, the scene in question is part of a film that's being shot and you're playing an actor simulating this behaviour, rather than an actual rapist. Does that make a difference to you?
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