IGN has the details on why Silent Hill: Homecoming was denied classification in Australia. Here's what they learned:
Atari plans to modify the violence and release the game during the beginning of 2009.
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In terms of the 'offending' violence in Silent Hill: Homecoming, the OFLC cited several high impact scenes in the game, mostly focusing on drilling into and severing body parts. One scene in particular that was highlighted as a problem involved Alex (the main character) having a drill forced into his right eye socket, which caused a lot of blood to spray out. A couple of other scenes mentioned include one where Alex forces the drill up into an enemy's skull and another where Alex is cut in half by an enemy.
As the article notes, they denied classification for those scenes, but allowed Resident Evil 4 to pass with its graphic chainsaw head decapitation scenes.Atari plans to modify the violence and release the game during the beginning of 2009.
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