Silent Hill Banned in Australia

The Aussies are way too strict on violence, blood and core. Their classification board decided against the sale of the newest Silent Hill title, Silent Hill Homecoming in Australia.

IGN reports on the situation and said that Australia’s OFLC (the regulatory board) has “refused to classify it for release because of its high impact violence and excessive blood effects. Atari plans to get the violence modified so that it can be classified and released during Q1 2009″

Meanwhile, the board cited scenes in the game that were ”mostly focusing on drilling into and severing body parts. One scene in particular that was highlighted as a problem involved Alex (the main character) having a drill forced into his right eye socket, which caused a lot of blood to spray out. A couple of other scenes mentioned include one where Alex forces the drill up into an enemy’s skull and another where Alex is cut in half by an enemy.”

Silent Hill Homecoming is available for the PC and Xbox 360 and was recently released worldwide last week (September 30)