It's only a few weeks into the New Year and Australia's restrictive game classification system has already taken its first scalp, with Xbox 360 sports title Blitz: The League being refused classification down under.
Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has refused classification for Midway's American football title, effectively banning it for sale down under. Blitz: The League was set for release in Australia on February 22. The official ruling from the OFLC states that the game was refused classification because of in-game drug use.
This generation has seen the demise of many much-loved videogame series – some cruelly cut down in their prime – what courses of action must a publisher avoid to prevent a slide to inevitable failure?
Lol, some games died because of some bad choices... actually, that's not that funny.
Sometimes great games simply don't translate into great sales. Enslaved, for example, deserved to sell MUCH better than it did.
You Activison it. By that I mean look what they did to the Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero series. I'm sure there were more but I don't feel like searching for them online.
Professional sports have dealt with doping from track & field, to cycling, baseball, pro football, wrestling, boxing, and just about any sport you can think of. Taking that information and looking at many of athletes that have existed in the gaming world has resulted in suspicions that maybe some of these digital athletes were doping like A-Rod and the real players.
Without further ado, here are 10 game characters suspected of using "power ups" to enhance their game.
Marcus and Dom are Defiantly Injecting
All be it Each other
But them two Butch Gears are Defiantly Injecting
yeah. They do look like they are on roids.
I was laughing my ass off when i saw Mario in there
From 10-Yard Fight on NES to Next-Gen Madden, UGO.com gives you a rundown of gaming's gridiron greats. It also interviews 23 NFL players.
Video interviews include Shaun Alexander, Vince Young, Michael Strahan, Trent Green, Marshall Faulk, Warrick Dunn, with many, many NFL players talking about broken TV sets and controllers after playing Madden.
drug use in a sports game.
ha ha ha ha ha ha.
what the hell.
i would give it an 18 certificate .
call it blaze. the green.
and get it out.
Not because of the subject matter...it just flat out is a sucky game. This is what we get for the NFL selling its soul to EA. American Football without licensing is well....crap. Maybe 2K can comeout with something to prove me wrong...but I doubt it. EA won big when they got the exclusives on NFL licensing. Its a shame too....
should be banned on every planet of every solar system!