The ban comes after Atari's application failed to comply with the strict categorisation guidelines into one of the four available standards (G, PG, M, MA15+) currently available. Since Australia still has no restricted R18+ category for video games, Reservoir Dogs has therefore become unclassifiable and the title made illegal for sale or rental in Australia with strict fines and jail time available for merchants running the risk.

The decision follows closely on the heals of the denial of entry to Mark Ecko's Getting up: Contents Under Pressure earlier this year and will no doubt be met with anger by the same game-going public who anxiously awaited its release.

Tell us all about the gameplay. Is this full-on third-person action?

KG: The gameplay has third-person shooter missions and separate driving missions. The missions are in a non-chronological order and the player will get to play all the dogs. Primarily it's about escaping from the heist. So the player can choose to shoot everyone who gets in their way like cops and civilians which is considered to be acting like a psychopath or alternatively they can use hostages to avoid killing people which is considered acting like a professional. If you do kill people then it is likely cops will call for back up and more cops will arrive on the scene as well as SWAT. The game gets harder but it doesn't become impossible. Therefore there is an advantage to acting like a professional but of course things can still go wrong if you are not careful and you can up end up being shot or turning the place into a bloodbath. Oops.