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I started watching the series yesterday, and man oh man is it a great story. I am thinking of getting the game as well.

The game is excellent.

Interesting, Jonah. I just attempted to purchase it on Steam and it allowed me to get all the way through to the final purchase option. If it truly is banned here I would not have even gotten that far, or Steam is yet to catch up on the news (which is possible). Unless of course this only apllies to the console versions.
Have to wait and see.

Ps. New Zealand has a R18+ rating so why they'd have it banned is ridiculous.

Hm is it singleplayer only? Was just going to buy it but can't find anything with MP info on it. I'm still playing L4D2. Could use a change. Though, can they make that better.

It's an adventure game. Of course it's single player.

Yep noticed afterwards :)

It wasn't banned! Telltale never submitted it for review, they just assumed it would be refused classification. It's written in the original article. Jonah is misquoting it.

@Anathem
Actually this headline has been carried by almost all gaming media sites including XBox360.com, PSU.com and PS3Trophies.com. It has also been debated on the Telltale Forums quite openly as well.
Mind throwing us a link to the original article?

What ISN'T banned in Australia and New Zealand.

@JamesDay: Zumba Fitness!

HEY, don't knock Zumba Fitness!





That's MY job.

"Zumba Fitness" - the definition of Western Corruption. It will be the first against the wall come the Revolution (I'll bloody put it there).

Nah. If I want to do dance excercising, it's Dance Dance Revolution, baby.

@herodotus Well, for a start, there's the article that Jonah refers to: http://www.gamesradar.com/australia-wont-see-walking-dead-game/

Also, all submissions can be searched and viewed at http://www.classification.gov.au/. There's only entries for the TV series, but nothing for the games.

I think it's a shame that Telltale didn't even try to get it rated. No doubt, they figured, due to how Left 4 Dead 2 was treated that they wouldn't get it through, but Dead Island was released here.

On the other hand, the OFLC is nothing if not inconsistent with their classifications.

The fear it appears was that the console version would not pass classification, and the PC version was not even considered. With "L4D2" Valve just caved for a quick buck, knowing full well that the international version could easily be purchased via a third party or VPN (most disgraceful action by a Developer I've seen with regard to the OFLC).
What's worse with Telltale is that they did not even research NZ laws which of course are different from the OFLC; they have the R18+ Classification already. In SA there is of course a move in the opposite direction with MA15+ games to be restricted fro sale to Adults only:
http://www.r18games.com.au/2012/04/south-australia-to-restrict-ma15-games-to-adults/
Why Telltale would feel threatened for the console release is obvious, even if we did have a R18+ classification now - teens would not easily be able to lay their hands on it. That is, after all the target demographic.

Thanks for the link, btw. I had looked up the OFLC listing myself and saw that it had not been submitted (bunch of horse's arses). However it would have brought some never-to-be-shunned PR if they had and it had been refused. Look at the number of poor fools who imported "SoF: Payback" simply because it was "banned".