Starfield Receives "Restricted" Rating in Australia
Starfield, the highly anticipated space-themed action role-playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, has been classified as "Restricted" in Australia.
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Starfield, the highly anticipated space-themed action role-playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, has been classified as "Restricted" in Australia. The game's classification was determined by the Australian Classification Board, which noted that the game features "moderate impact" language and themes, "strong impact" violence, "very mild impact" nudity, and "restricted" interactive drug use.
Starfield represents the first new intellectual property by Bethesda Game Studios in over twenty-five years, and has been described by director Todd Howard as "Skyrim in space". The studio had been exploring space-themed games since as early as 1994, but it took a while to cement the ideas behind Starfield that would distinguish it from other science fiction games already released.
It is important to note that Australia has some of the strictest video game classification laws in the world, and games that are classified as "Restricted" are not allowed to be sold or rented to minors.
FYI, Skyrim and Fallout 4 were only rated "15+", so Starfield goes even further in everything.
https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition
To my knowledge, Starfield is the first Bethesda game ever to have this kind of rating.