Shock of the week: Australia bans Dark Sector

My God, if they're banning Dark Sector for this, what will happen to No More Heroes when it finally comes out there? If you're not cutting their heads off, you're splitting them down the fucking middle in that game (it's great, btw).

Methinks that more Aussies should start investing in either modchips, or consoles from countries that don't suck ass so they can import.

Neck breaking spurts? F'n sold.

How come it's always the minor releases that seem to get banned? Games like this and Manhunt 2. It will be interesting to see what happens with a game as big as GTA IV, will the censors dare to take on such a big title?

they ban Dark Sector but fully stand behind the SMUT fest known as Crocodile Dundy 2??

sickening.

So long as freedom of choice is devoid of any sexual content.

Its all good fellow aussies!

Ruddy's in power now, he's already ratified Kyoto, set a date for withdrawing all our troops from Iraq (and told Bush to STFU), apoligised to the stolen generation, scrapped all of howards multi-billion dollar ID card programs and scrapped funding to dozen's of other equally crappy programs.

I'm sure adding a 18+ rating to games will be coming soon, afterall he's had more important stuff to deal with since he took office. Until then, continue to pirate every game that gets banned, or more ethically, just order them from New Zealand, the 15% exchange rate bonus pays for the shipping :-).

lol @ chocobo knight. Zing!

I second Jim's sentiment: sucks to be an Aussie,

I'm with Snaileb... * Crosses Fingers too *

Even if we had an R18+ rating (which in Australia would be on par with AO in the US) there's a good chance Dark Sector would be censored anyway. I don't think many retailers would stock it, which means it would be a commercial failure. Besides, who says Sony or Microsoft would allow R18+ games on their system? They don't allow AO games. Can't win either way.

(In spite of this I do support the notion that we should have an R18+ rating)

LAYME.

Censorship is epic fail

Damn that sucks.

Now it's a must-buy in my book. That same thing happened to Manhunt and I was thoroughly entertained. This one doesn't look like it'll disappoint either.

lack of game ratings = lack of epic games

poor aussies

It might inspire glaive-terrorists!

game sucks anyways

What the hell? this doesn't even look that good, let alone violent or scary.

What does Nicole Kidman think?!



Oh, right.

Sucks to be anything but an Australian. Kiss my left nut, Yojimbo.

As the other aussies said, we are pretty used to getting games banned over here ;)

Its worse than the UK ffs.

I couldn't care less about Dark Sector, it looks pretty shit tbh, but I have a problem with the government telling me what I can and can't watch or play, especially when I am in my late 20s

This will just get an 18 in the U.K. I bloody hope so anyway.

I just sent a complaint to the OFLC. I urge all australian citizens to do the same. We need an R rating. All this banning is starting to get pretty fucking Orwellian, if you ask me...

Yeah thats fucking bullshit. Fuck you Australian classification laws. Next up on their list will be Ninja Gaiden 2 and GTA IV. They already banned us from being able to download Ninja Gaiden Black on the Xbox Live market place too

To the ppl mentioning No More Heroes, unless there's been a major change i wasn't aware of, we're getting the censored version(AFAIK all PAL regions are). What makes matters worse is that the NTSC version won't work on modded PAL wiis, so importing is a no go too. :(

As for Dark Sector, i can't say i was awaiting it with baited breath, but outright bannination is a joke. Seems kind of ridiculous to me , as from what I've seen of the game, it doesn't appear to be any more violent than say, Gears of War.

I really hope the OFLC pulls their collective heads out of their collective arse and realise an R (restricted to 18+ for our international friends) rating for games is needed. Not only do we have crap like this happening, but there's also the occasional game that slips through with an MA (15+) rating when it probably should have been rated R.( The original Manhunt springs to mind.)

Without wishing to get on the soapbox, I urge everyone in Australia who's bothered by this to write a letter (not email) to the OFLC.

Office of Film and Literature Classification
Locked Bag 3
HAYMARKET NSW 1240

Keep it civil, concise and respectful.

Consider that the game development community in Australia is thriving at the moment and IIRC has been pushing for the introduction of a R rating for a while now. If enough pressure is applied by both the developers and consumers, it will be enough to facilitate change.

You might not care about not being able to play Dark Sector, but what about Ninja Gaiden 2 ? Silent Hill V ? GTA 4 ? If we keep acquiescing to censorship, shit like this is going to continue unabated.