According to Microsoft, they use three game regions (not to be confused with DVD regions):

NTSC: North America and South America (United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil)

NTSC-J: Asia (Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan)

PAL: Europe, South Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand

(In case you didn't know, the terms NTSC and PAL usually refer to TV systems.)

So yes, an Australian XBOX can play the European version of the game, but unfortunately those of us with NTSC-J region XBOXs can't. Which totally sucks, since I haven't been able to find any information about a possible NTSC-J release.

I hated DVD region encoding (and happily hacked my old DVD players to get around it), and think this region encoding for XBOX games is ridiculous as well. PS3 games DON'T use this system -- their games are all region-free.

Region encoding is just another way of companies ripping people off. The fact of the matter is that the technology is identical and its only an enforced software limitation. This is so that people simply cant buy games cheap online from anywhere in the world, which in turn puts up profits for MS.

So it's very likely we might never see it? If so, looks like I'll be forced to get heroes over europe instead.

yeah its released in Asia, you Singaporean by chance?

It's released already?I can't seem to find it anywhere.And yes, I am a Singaporean.

you want? i got spare copy, i sell for $80 SGD ( i imported 1 more copy by mistake, it says region 2 on it(my current one is region 1, i tested it and it works soo its safe.)

and yes i am singaporean.