A Rockstar Games game called “Bonaire” has been banned in Australia but no one knows what it is. The mysterious title has left fans scratching their heads as Rockstar hasn’t officially announced that it is working on a game after the highly successful release of cowboy epic Red Dead Redemption 2 in October 2018.
Australia has just refreshed its list of banned games that are prohibited from releasing in the country and as well as games like medieval RPG and new Game Pass title Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Rockstar’s Bonaire has been slapped with a ban too. Bonaire has been hit with an “RC” rating by the Australian games ratings board which means refused classification.
The classification listing doesn’t explain what Bonaire is or what it may have been banned for. However, Australia just handed out a ban to DayZ for drug use which isn’t in the game yet. So, Bonaire could have been banned for anything from drug use, to excessive violence or something that the ratings board just happened to find by poking around in the game’s files.
Rockstar has also stayed quiet on the issue, but the company’s silence is only making fans speculate harder. One popular suggestion is that Bonaire is the name of a Red Dead Redemption 2 expansion. Bonaire is the name of a Caribbean island and Red Dead Redemption 2’s story did take players to Guarma, a tropical island off the coast of Cuba, so the two could be connected. It’s the only theory that makes any sense as although many would like to see Rockstar Games announce Bully 2 or revive Agent, neither of these titles are officially connected to the Caribbean.
If Rockstar is going to announce Bonaire as a Red Dead Redemption 2 expansion or new Red Dead Online update, then that reveal could be happening very soon. Kotaku Australia was unable to find applications for Bonaire when looking at the Taiwanese, European, or South Korean games rating agencies and Rockstar would have to go through these before making a reveal. However, the Rockstar North office has just torn down the huge Red Dead Redemption 2 poster that has been on the side of the building for quite some time. The studio may be waiting to replace it with official art of Red Dead Redemption 2 Bonaire as soon as the company has officially revealed it.
Source: Kotaku Australia
