The Australian classifications board have taken the step of effectively banning 50 Cents new videogame down-under, having refused to certificate the new title. 50 Cent: Bulletproof features lashings of gang violence, gangster plotlines and other such 'mature' content. The three-member review board panel apparently spent a collective 42 hours playing the title before denying it classification. This effective ban means the game cannot be sold, rented, advertised or even seen across the country. Apparently, the game's story mode sees 'Fiddy' out to avenge the death of his former cellmate on the mean streets of New York's underworld. Violence, drugs and bad language are apparently justified in the context of the singleplayer mode's gritty plot, however the Australian censors were not so accommodating when it came to the arcade mode, which includes extreme violence and killing with no context whatsoever.

Maureen Shelley, convenor of the Classification Review Board commented, "The counter kills are enacted in detail, they are prolonged and take place in close up and slow motion. The most impactful of the counter kills involve knives and on-screen blood splatter. The Review Board determined that the impact of this mode was high and could not be accommodated at MA15+ classification. Therefore the game must be refused classification".

Publisher VU Games must now either accept that the game cannot be sold in Australia, or re-submit an edited version of the title for reassessment by the review panel. We'll keep you posted on this.

By Luke Guttridge

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  1. kristen Unregistered 3 years ago

    i think that smoking is bade even thow i smoke it has made a big chang to my life boys hve dumped me and said that they are sike of kissing a ashtrey wich has upset me but at the end of the day you can do what you wont because it is your life and there is nuthing eney one can do

  2. ghetto blasta Unregistered 3 years ago

    man thats wack!! what gansta

  3. chip Unregistered 3 years ago

    i think that australia should just use the same rating system that the u.s use's and let the peop,le who buy the game be responsible for themselves. I mean if some one buys a game then they would know what they are buying and if not they should what kind of dumb ass buys a game without looking at the cover first?

  4. RED ! Unregistered 3 years ago

    THE COUNTER KILLS ARE AWSOME!!!

  5. NaTh0 Unregistered 3 years ago

    That suck's.. i was looking forward to buying bullet proof..
    they let every other violent game in but 50's

  6. pat Unregistered 3 years ago

    ive been watein so long 4 dis game!
    this sucks

  7. pat Unregistered 3 years ago

    fiddy is the futer

  8. pat Unregistered 3 years ago

    wadup Gang$ta

  9. jakesta Unregistered 2 years ago

    Where do you live in australia because im going

  10. jimmy Unregistered 2 years ago

    I be playing this game, it s really cool. We all be playing violaence game but that one is dope.... my cousin sent it to me

  11. DIV MC Unregistered 2 years ago

    I DISAGREE WITH THE THE BAND OF THIS GAME

  12. DIV MC Unregistered 2 years ago

    FUK UR BITCH ASS 50 IS THA BEST BITCH IN HE KICK UR BITCH ASS IF HE HEAR U SAYIN AT IN THE GAME IS WACK IN A FINK HE SHOULD BRING OUT ANOTHER GAME SO SHUT THE FUK UP BITCH

  13. Rene Unregistered 2 years ago






















    Sentimental and nostalgic. Great.5

  14. William Unregistered 2 years ago



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  17. moses Unregistered 2 years ago

    dearmoses i want a 50cent bulletproof