Adult game MadWorld receives adult rating in Britain, Australia envious.
The British Board of Film Classification has delivered its verdict on the stylised game MadWorld. It’s handed the surprisingly graphic black and white game a rating of 18, with the summary being “contains very strong, stylised, bloody violence,” according to Game Politics. This, of course, is an entirely reasonable conclusion judging by what we’ve seen of the title – it’s really not for the kids.
According to our Classification Board’s online database, MadWorld has yet to be rated. Given our complete lack of an adult rating for games – unlike every other form of media here – it’s entirely possible that Sega will have the game altered so Aussie children can also play it. Or maybe just take our advice and pass it by our more morally progressive Classification Review Board.
As commented last year by the action title’s producer, Atsushi Inaba, the game in which you wield chainsaws, rip out spines, and shove stop signs into the faces of opponents was clearly designed for the older market from the very beginning. Evidently, it’s aimed at filling a gaping hole on Nintendo’s generally cute-laden Wii. “It’s on the Wii, but it’s made for a mature audience,” he said at the time.
By ‘mature’ he really does seem to mean 18 and over, as the game’s latest trailers are self-rated as “not suitable for viewers under the age of 18,” due to containing “scenes of extreme violence”. This is why the amusingly, over-the-top gore-fest could have a challenging time passing our effective game censorship system, as everything must be fit for pimply 15-year-olds to enjoy, which clearly isn’t at all absurd.
Below is the game’s latest and rather festive trailer, oh mature gamer whom our government pretends doesn’t exist. There’s even a censored version which might be indicative of what the title will look like in our upsidedown nation.
Update: The Classification Board has just published its rating of Sega’s Wii game and found it meets the requirements of MA15+ with the summary “Strong bloody violence, Strong coarse language.” Whether the game was toned down for Australia remains to be seen. It could just be that an Australian 15-year-old is equivalent to an 18-year-old Brit.
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