Blitz: The League Banned Down Under
Midway’s Blitz: The League, for the Xbox 360, has been banned in Australia because of its in-game drug use. The game was originally set for release on February 22, but thanks to an official ruling of Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification, the game will no longer be available in the country.
The OFLC has filed a report desribing how these drugs are used to enchance each member of your team’s performence. Blitz: The League will be refused classification because the game “depicts, expresses or otherwise deals 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.”
Ivone Bozzi, a marketing manager for Red Ant Enterprises, a local distributor of Blitz: The League, stated:
At this stage we haven’t decided if we are going to go ahead and appeal it. Quite a shame, as we did get some fantastic feedback from retail. It was unfortunately one of those games that are touch-and-go.
Blitz: The League has joined the list of games that have been banned from Austrailia, including Reservoir Dogs, Mark Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, Postal, Postal 2, Narc, BMX XXX, Manhunt, and more.
Read (GameSpot)