"Yes, the rumour was true. The Office of Film and Literature Classification has handed an RC to Bethesda's Fallout 3, making it illegal to sell the game in Australia. It's not known at this stage if the ban was for drug use, as the original rumour states, or gore as I was predicting.

I was ready to dismiss the rumour when I first heard it, but my suspicions were raised when Red Ant failed to confirm or deny it. It's not unusual for a publisher to do this, but it seemed particularly odd as Red Ant had no problem in the past commenting about Fallout 3 and the OFLC.

We'll be on Red Ant and Bethesda's backs to see what they plan to do. Most likely the game will be edited to remove the offending content and resubmitted, as AFA Interactive did with Dark Sector."

http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/07/its_official_fallout_3_refused_classification_in_australia.html

I know some here will probably import if this comes to fruition.

Not that I was going to play this game (too busy with Fable 2, Banjo and KH 1 & 2, but this is bullshit.

Australia really, desperately needs an "R" rating like we have for movies and music.

If I decide I really have to play it I'll import it from the UK, but it would suck to have to resort to that.

So will they be releasing an altered version? Hope so.
But if not, those who own a PS3 and PC can import right? Or just PS3? I'm not sure about PC.

Edit: Forgot that it was just Aus and not PAL territories. So people who own a 360 should be fine as well?

Yeah in theory at least we should be sweet.  Just get an English version from the UK if you want an unedited version of the game that badly.  Im 90% sure that Australia will get a slightly dumbed down version of Fallout 3 officially though.

The Aussie game rating system is a joke, but it could be worse like Germany.

YAYAYAY MY COUNTRY LOVES TEH CENSORSHIP. I hope this helps fallout 3 fail!

On a more serious note. We need an R18 rating badly.

@Starcraft: Didn't they dumb down the AU version of GTA4 by taking out the sex scene with a prostitute?

That's going to suck if this is to be believed.

Yes.  Yes they did.  Bitches.