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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 2:35PM Shadowbender said

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I like the statement they made. Australia Ratings Board really needs to stop being a bunch of jerk-offs and let people have the entertainment they need.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 2:53PM (Unverified) said

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thanks for adding insight to the conversation. i'm glad you didn't just repeat what the article said. this is not sarcasm.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:52PM Ryuk said

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that was the dumbest comment i've seen in a while, replier.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 9:39PM (Unverified) said

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Uh, guys - the game isn't banned here. It's being released. It's been classified for almost a month now.

You can put away the pitchforks.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 2:37PM Sordid State of Eclairs said

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I'm glad they didn't hold back in their opinion on the subject at hand.

Also glad that they called out AUS govt with the comment "..treating adults like adults" and letting it be known that if it's out there, somehow people will get their hands on it.

Kind of surprised at how candid they were though. Glad to see reps of a company do that for once instead of all the double talk.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 2:40PM Elmoogle said

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Kind of fitting, considering the studio name. I'd be pretty dissapointed if they conformed.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 2:48PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said

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If more of media took this opinion and fought against it, the ratings would change, believe me, if they continue to surrender and water thier games down, the ratings boards will have no real reason to change things unless people rose up against it.

Movies and games alike just have to refuse to sell adult games over there until things change.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 2:52PM s256 said

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"We're not going to water down the game for countries that can't treat adults like adults,"

THAT'S THE SPIRIT, MAN! :D:D
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 2:58PM MonKENy said

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LOVE IT!!! Thanks Rebellion Studios for speaking thruth and standing up for your product. Like a few other have said when the rest of the studios start doing this we may have better results...

Maybe this Rebellion will become a Revolution???!
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:18PM (Unverified) said

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revolution? that's those violent videogames talking again
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:34PM MonKENy said

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why do you assume a revolution has to be violent? I think your comment is those violent video games talking again..

Main Entry: rev·o·lu·tion
Pronunciation: \ˌre-və-ˈlü-shən\
Function: noun

2 a : a sudden, radical, or complete change

b : a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed

c : activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation

d : a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm

e : a changeover in use or preference especially in technology

nothing there speaks of violence...I know you were prob trying to make a joke but we needs less negative stereotyping towards gaming and changes in the progression of gaming.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:54PM Ryuk said

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monkeny, explain how you overthrow a government without violence?
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:28PM MonKENy said

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One word....Impeachment...
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:40PM Sandok said

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AvA (ice~), you do know that some skinny Indian dude called Ghandi overthrew the British Goverment from his country without violence?
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 8:52PM (Unverified) said

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Dude in my 10th grade History class we were learning about a bunch of different revolutions, one of those revolutions was named "The Bloodless Revolution" you should read about it was pretty interesting
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Posted: Jan 11th 2010 3:08AM MonKENy said

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why despite all the positive replies to my statement was I Down voted? Do you tools have any free thought processes what so ever?
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:16PM The1stMJC said

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Hey Rebellion made Rogue Warrior right? If so than this is going to be the best game ever
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:28PM Mister Servo said

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Maybe that game sucked so much because they were putting all their effort in this game? One can hope.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:42PM peternography said

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omg dude people he is being sarcastic please do not believe rouge warrior was any good that damn game gave me an anxiety attack i could probably sue but im glad that game is out of my life

oh and do not confuse rouge warrior with rouge trooper rebellion made both but rouge warrior was blahh im getting sick again
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:15PM The Pirate said

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Rebellion are known for some plain shit games. They are the reason people thought the PSP was good for nothing but crap ports. Any video game company that brings something as horrible and as against nature as Rogue Warrior to the world, has serious issues. That said i am a massive fan of AvP2 (Which Rebellion did NOT make).
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:35PM The1stMJC said

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I enjoyed Rogue Warrior as a bad game kind of like when someone watches a movie they know is bad, but still watches it to make fun out of it.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 6:52PM (Unverified) said

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Rouge Trooper was a damn fine game. Rouge Warrior not so much. Rebellion made both.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 6:02PM finnith said

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@1stmjc

Yea, me and my friends did the same thing with Driv3r. The Go-Kart was designed so that it could drive underneath cars and flip them over. Endless lulz.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:29PM m0c3 said

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"We're not going to water down the game for countries that can't treat adults like adults,"

Boooom
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:31PM (Unverified) said

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You expect this sort of censored nonsense from China, NOT Australia!?
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:49PM (Unverified) said

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Germany and Australia have a sort of guilt similar to that found in white people in the USA. They feel they need to make exceptions for certain things to I suppose make up for their ancestors transgressions. White guilt is a powerful thing lololololol.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:37PM OZJD said

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Silicon Siren "White guilt?"

LOL

You dig too deep for answers to a very simple problem.

Simply do-gooders trying to enforce their ideas on everyone. These people do not believe in freedom of speech OR expression.

They are the same the world over regardless of skin colour or nationality or "white guilt" hahahaha.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:45PM (Unverified) said

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Nope it's most certainly a modern guilt society has. That is the majority of the reason behind the censorship of video games in Germany and Australia. The whole modern guilt thing is rather silly though, considering no one makes a connection like that these days anymore. Australia doesn't need to worry about the types of people that founded their country and Germany's political leaders need to realize WWII is over and people aren't really upset about it anymore. I just thought I'd make a humorous connection to the public idea of "white guilt."
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:35PM MonKENy said

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Hes right (as far as the german government goes I cant speak for australia) They have a huge guilt about what happened in WW2 and so are extremely overly cautious about what they do/dont do to offend everyone right now..I just had a girl from Germany staying with us for a few weeks and we talked pretty heavily about this.

On the one hand they do need to atone for the mistakes made in WW2 but if all you do is apologize and dwell on the past transgressions you can never truly move forward.

When the largest most globally know atrocities have been commited by white people over the past couple hundred years than I would say that "white Guilt" is a fairly accurate representation of what is happening but "Global Fear of Misrepresentation" would be a better one.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 7:56PM (Unverified) said

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The German people do not in fact have to atone for anything. It was one man, and he's dead. Leave history where it belongs, in the past.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 8:07PM (Unverified) said

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@Avatar

I agree, the politicians need to grow up in both countries. I'm not saying it's the right thing just the reason why they are so harsh on media. I think it's silly.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 8:53PM TheDarkWayne said

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whoa whoa whoa, one man? One man? There is such historical inaccuracy and over simplification in that statement it took everything I have to keep my head from exploding, let alone possibly explaining how incredibly flawed that idea is
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 9:23PM HighFiveJesus said

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One man is all it takes. actually one idea.

I agree we should leave history in the past, but somehow the ever growing neo nazi movement in America ran with that fuckers idea and taught their kids to believe it too. What is worse is they see the "tea party" glen beck worshippers and they've realized they can merge with these folks since their message to establish the same goals of their own, except where the old republicans stop with trying to get obama out of office, the nazis just go one step further and want him hanged. Its no secret that these rallies are 99.99 percent white people using some of the nastiest imagery i've ever seen in politics.

sorry, don't turn this into a political debate, i know i am not helping.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 3:58PM CrimsonRyan said

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I really want a demo. I NEED A DEMO. I want to know if this game will be bad or not. Rouge Warrior pretty much got me paranoid, but it looks amazing.

Of course, with their whole "We can't say anything" deal, it'll probably come out after the game. Which I hope not. Because I need this. It's the only thing keeping me on the wagon right now.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:16PM (Unverified) said

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They made the last AvP game and it was fantastic, you have nothing to fear.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:16PM The Pirate said

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Exactly. If this game is everything they, and the trailers, say it is...it could be my GOTY. Please dont fuck this up Rebellion
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:17PM The Pirate said

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Rebellion did NOT make the last AvP game! Monolith did.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:23PM (Unverified) said

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AHEM the last GOOD AvP title. I didn't care for the AvP sequel that Monolith did.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:30PM The Pirate said

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But that was the better game (by a lot)
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 4:41PM (Unverified) said

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Nah I didn't like how much changed from the original, it erked me. I'm excited about this reboot though. The 2.5 AvP was awful though, truly awful.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:00PM CrimsonRyan said

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I've never played any AvP games so that is the reason I'm worried. So far if you guys say its good, I'll take your word for it. Just hope it comes out in February so I can pick that and Heavy Rain up for my Birthday.
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Posted: Jan 11th 2010 10:24AM (Unverified) said

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Correct me if im wrong but arent these the guys that made the Alien Vs Predator game for the Atari Jaguar? That by far was the best version of AVP hands down. I always wanted a remake of that game and it looks like were getting one with this game as far as style goes (different classes, etc). I hope this game kicks ass... Extremely hyped.
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Posted: Jan 11th 2010 11:05AM (Unverified) said

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(It's "Rogue".)
"Rouge Warrior" sounds like a drag queen with a machine gun.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:21PM emperorzeroxx said

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Finally a smart company!!! More need to start doing this... F Australia and censorship
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:38PM MonKENy said

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what he said except minus the Australia..why F Australia? Its the Government (actually one person) not ALL of Australia but DEF Ferk Censorship!
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:32PM CEEarl said

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You guys refuse to water your game down? Well, I guess in that case I'll be one of the people that buys it for sure. Thanks for making a real Alien Predator game and not that PG-13 crap we got for a movie. If you're giving us an Alien Predator game bring on the skinned bodies and chest busters! Yeah baby, baby! You guys had me at "Get away from her you b*tch!"
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 5:53PM (Unverified) said

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http://kotaku.com/5429337/aliens-vs-predator-unbanned-in-australia

Read it. It's not banned in Australia... Unless they over ruled the over rule?
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 8:00PM (Unverified) said

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No it's still classified MA15+... this article is poorly researched and Joystiq hasn't updated the original banning article they link in this article.

I can only imagine this interview is old, i.e. before they won the appeal.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 6:05PM (Unverified) said

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Played this game in October at a game convention thing in Leeds, UK. Was insanely awesome! Out of all the games at the show, me and a friend spent our most time (pretty much all day) at their station. Obviously the gameplay was a little buggy at the time, but everyone viewing and playing was very impressed and its definitely something worth waiting and saving for (if you need to :). I'm really glad that all the content is staying as it was because it looked really impressive; getting stabbed through the stomach by the Aliens’ surprise attack, only to see its tail whip round and pull your eye out, was one of the most amazingly captivating stealth kills I've seen in a game. Gameplay wise it’s also really well balanced; though saying that my mate was the only guy to win as marines the whole day (of the first day), right at the end, heh but no surprises there.
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Posted: Jan 10th 2010 6:35PM Magic Whiskey said

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The game has been confirmed for a solid release in the UK and USA on February 16.
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