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Fallout 3 unbanned in Australia

Gamespot is reporting that the highly anticipated Fallout 3 has been unbanned in Australia. The game was initially getting banned due to in-game drug use, which made it so that the game couldn't get classified, and made it illegal to sell in Australia.

The Classification Board in Australia has now given Fallout 3 a rating of MA+15, with listing it as having "strong violence, drug references, and coarse language."

In Australia, movies can be sold that have a rating higer than MA+15, but video games cannot.

This same thing happened with the game Dark Sector, that came out a couple months ago. The distributors came out with a much "toned down" version that was deemed acceptable to sell in Australia, and is coming out in September there.

Gamespot also contacted the Australia Classification Board, and they responded by saying that the game was able to be passed because of "the reward and incentive" for the in-game drug use has been toned down. They did not comment further in what else was changed in the game.