My plan to import this after the BBFC banned it has failed (It passed with an advisory 18-rating in Norway which would work fine on a UK PS2). It looks like Sony & Nintendo themselves have banned it after it was awarded a Adults Only rating in America (seemingly equivalent to a 18 rating in the UK). Apparently their policy is not to licence 3rd party games that are awarded an AO rating. This seems quite ridiculous. Nintendo I can understand, but Sony? Surely Adults can be trusted to make their own decisions. Imagine if the licensees of the DVD technology banned all 18-rated films?

The problem (in the UK at least) comes from too many shops/parents not taking the age ratings as seriously with games as they do with films and then mass hysteria in the media when a 13 year old kid decides to go and copy what he saw in real life and then say "they did it in the game, so I thought it was alright" (which personally doesn't wash with me - when I was 13 everyone knew it was wrong to go kill people in real life and could see games/films/books were just fantasy.) the fault is not placed with the parents for buying him the 18-rated game but with the developer for making the game.