Hotline Miami 2 verboden in Australië 

Hotline Miami 2 komt waarschijnlijk niet uit in Australië. De Australische keuringsdienst voor games weigert het spel van een leeftijdsclassificatie te voorzien. Dit keer komt een door een scène waarin een vrouw bruut wordt verkracht.

De Australische keuringsdienst geeft geen classificatie aan spellen die aan de volgende criteria voldoen: "Games that depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified."

Hier is een beschrijving van de bewuste scène:
In the sequence of game play footage titled Midnight Animal, the protagonist character bursts into what appears to be a movie set and explicitly kills 4 people, who collapse to the floor in a pool of copious blood, often accompanied by blood splatter. After stomping on the head of a fifth male character, he strikes a female character wearing red underwear. She is knocked to the floor and is viewed lying face down in a pool of copious blood. The male character is viewed with his pants halfway down, partially exposing his buttocks. He is viewed pinning the female down by the arms and lying on top of her thrusting, implicitly raping her (either rear entry or anally) while her legs are viewed kicking as she struggles beneath him. This visual depiction of implied sexual violence is emphasised by it being mid-screen, with a red backdrop pulsating and the remainder of the screen being surrounded by black.

Het klinkt in ieder geval vrij bruut.