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Mortal Kombat receives R18 in New Zealand (which means it's coming out)

by Ben Gilbert on Mar 9th 2011 11:20PM

Mortal Kombat may be combatting release issues in Australia, but the game is being officially allowed to pulverize faces (and everything else) across the water in New Zealand. The country's Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) gave Mortal Kombat an R18 rating recently, which is to say the game's content is "objectionable except if the availability of the publication is restricted to persons who have attained the age of 18 years."

We imagine Kiwis responding to the classification by taking fistfulls of marmite and punching straight through box sets of Flight of the Conchords, while screaming "Get over here" in the general direction of WB Games Chicago. Or just quietly shouting "hooray!" One or the other.

Via: GamePlanet
Source: OFLC

Tags: microsoft, mortal-kombat-2011, netherrealm-studios, new-zealand, oflc, playstation, ps3, warner-bros-interactive, wb-games, wb-games-chicago, wbie, xbox

Reader Comments (37)

Solid Flight of the Concords reference. Respect.

@geoff0011
It's things like these that make Aussies hate us :3

@Inkopa *Ut's Thungs luck tease dut muck ozzies ate uz
fixed :P

with love,
- an aussie that won't be able to play MK.

@nighttime

haha I think you meant to say was...

Aw sweet as bro. Ut's Thungs luck tease dut muck ozzies ate uz eh.

:D

@eat it
Maybe he meant...
Chur shot cuz, fanks aye, iz fings like deez dat make ozzies fink were eggs...

Big thumbs up on that news though, I was wondering if it was coming out here.

Cant wait till this game comes out

I love how it says, "restricted to persons who have attained the age of 18 years". It makes it sound like you have to level up to age 18.

@My Prerogative

Achievement earned - age 1 year!

@My Prerogative

It's all part of the grand plan to get the "high score".

@My Prerogative

You'd be amazed how hard that is. I walked in circles to get random battles outside in the schoolhouse zone for 18 years to pull that off.

@My Prerogative 18 years GET!

@My Prerogative

Right. And yet, there's a rating that says you need to be OVER 18 to play, it, and if a game gets that rating, they don't release it. That 19th birthday must be some grueling rite of passage, like boxing a kangaroo.

(Assumed New Zealand fell under the province of Australia, and realizes he may look like an ass in front of the whole internet. Quickly leaves)

baaaa

baaaaaaa

@AntiVillian

I'm pretending to be a sheep, I should be getting up voted in the the new zealand thread.

This is good news! Looking forward to breaking faces.

Usually we just get the Aussie version of games, that have been watered down for their fragile little minds, so this makes a nice change

So Frodo's confirmed as a playable character?

Middle Earth has video games now?

I love it when games are spoken about in lawyer lingo, with all these suit types 'reviewing' their release and uttering comments along the lines of "Oh by gosh, the content in this computer entertainment medium (on a compact digital versatile disc) is of considerably objectionable quality, however we do take into account and propose that if one were inclined to partake in such aforementioned activities that they be of a certain minimum mental maturity in order to engage in such simulated recreations of aggressive acts," when all they're trying to do is figure out how to perform the fatalities whilst circling their clipboard survey answers on a rating scale of "inoffensive" to "objectionable".

Seriously though, for any of you Kiwis reading this article from Christchurch, all the best to you and your families and hopefully the city picks itself up after recent events.

@willooi

+100 internets for you. That was funny as hell.

@willooi
I have a friend that talks like that all the time, except you are actually funny.

brilliant

I wonder if Warner Bros pulled some strings to make this happen.. know what I mean?

@AriesWarlock oh, you mean "Release this damn game and you will receive your money, for God sake!" ?

Haha, everyone seems to have a firm grasp on what us Kiwis are like. It's horrible when Oz doesn't get games or get games that have all the cool stuff left out, such as GTA4 and Left for Dead 2 (codenamed 'Left for Bland 2'). I work in a game retail store and it's horrible trying to explain to people that they are getting the version of the game without the stacks of bodies.

Off topic: I still haven't seen any retail store over here to stock Two Worlds Two...

@Jermachi

Its ok NZ got the UK version of LFD2 with all the fun stuff.

Thats because no-one wants to play Two Worlds Two after the first miserable game =P

@Jermachi

Actually Pod, true story, the shipping container containing the stock was washed overboard, all gone :(

@Voltronimous

I'm calling BS on your story Ben =)

@TWC Plagu3

No no its actually true, talked to John in ak yesterday

@Voltronimous Must have been in there with my copy of TDU2.

How do I unlock Richie McCaw?

@simblor Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, X.

Always works for me.

Australia should have this in its R18+ glory by late-april. Last SCAG meeting the attourney generals all agreed, with the government, that the rating should be introduced, its taken this time since then to draw up the guidelines for it.

@Foetoid

Actually, scrap that. This link verifys the decision will be finalized at the July 2011 SCAG meeting.

http://www.scag.gov.au/lawlink/SCAG/ll_scag.nsf/vwFiles/SCAG_Communique_4-5_March_2011_FINAL.pdf/$file/SCAG_Communique_4-5_March_2011_FINAL.pdf

I dunno... I always thought they're too busy protecting their babies from dingos to care about anything else

@TheShaper

pssst. that''s the country on the other side of the tasman

Chance to use Kombatting missed.

Just order the game online. Check to make sure its PAL format and its usally 50% cheaper.

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