WiiWare game too sexy for us
Classification Board deems Sexy Poker too sexy for Aussie WiiWare service
It’s not often we have to report on game getting banned: Most of the violent or sexually provocative games that do, don’t usually hit the Wii or DS – let alone the WiiWare service. Sexy Poker, like the name suggests, pits you against six different women who have stereotypical costumes.
The better you play the less clothing they wear, and eventually you’ll… well, you get the idea. But of course without an R Rating we can’t get such a wonderful game; the official report says –
"In the Board’s view, Sexy Poker offers depictions of nudity as an incentive or reward to interactive game play. In the Board’s view, the general rule in the Guidelines for the Classification of Films and Computer Games prohibiting depictions of nudity as an incentive or reward, applies to the game play described above, as the player is shown increasingly detailed amounts of nudity following successful game-play," the statement said.
"In the view of the Board, the impact of the game exceeds strong as, except in material restricted to adults, nudity and sexual activity must not be related to incentives or rewards. As such, the game cannot be accommodated in a MA15+ classification." Because there is no R18+ rating for games in Australia, the highest classification level for a game is MA15+.
Just don’t tell the Classification Board about the games like this on mobile phones – we wouldn’t want to poke holes in their infallible logic.
