It was a home-made modification for Half-Life 2 which was pulled from the hosting mod site shortly after release. School Shooter: North American Tour 2012 isn't actually a game.
In the yet-to-be-released School Shooter: North American Tour 2012, the player mimics the activities of mass murderers such as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. His next example of an awful game goes one better. Probably because, when taken out of context, it sounds even more disturbing: In a sequence in the popular Grand Theft Auto game that was required to be removed in Australia, the player has sex with a prostitute in his car before shooting her and stealing the money he paid her. Salusinszky acknowledges the scene "was required to be removed in Australia" but mentions it anyway.
Read the iGEA's rebuttal to Channel 7 making identical claims here. Nonetheless, Salusinszky back this up by once again referring to the discredited scene from Grand Theft Auto which was never officially part of a game and was never, nor ever will be, launched in Australia.
Those that are banned are invariably freely available to purchase online and are rarely as disturbing as other titles that are available currently at MA15 - Manhunt 2 is arguably the only exception in the past five years. This troubling development suggests that the ten-year-long wait for an R18 rating for games has once again been hijacked by morally-outraged groups who are still unaware about the truth of games launched in Australia. Once again NSW Attorney General, Greg Smith gets involved and is reported in the following way, Concerned over the changes, NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith has written to his state and federal counterparts warning that the new system must not dilute laws by giving banned video games a new R18+ rating. You can read it here but most of it is behind The Australian's new, easy-to-hack paywall. This casually-outraged, out-of-context and factually-wrong opening statement sets the tone for the rest of the article. Salusinszky's piece, " Legal change may allow killer games" opens with the following: Computer games in which the player has virtual sex with a prostitute before killing her, or moves through a school cafeteria shooting helpless students, could become available in Australia under a new classification system planned by the nation's attorneys-general. What's more, the expert used to validate the article says, "it is a long time since I have been so egregiously misquoted." Today in The Australian, columnist, Imre Salusinszky cites Channel 7's piece as reference material before mirroring its content and then embellishes the matter with even more outrageous examples. It was roundly slammed as one-sided, inaccurate and painted a misleading pictures of games and people who play them. Last Thursday, Channel 7's Talitha Cummins presented a news segment called, 'Video Games Under Fire'.
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