(AFA Interactive), the game's distributor in Australia has confirmed today that Dark Sector has been refused classification by the OFLC. D3P will be releasing a formal statement on the ban shortly, but Adam Zweck, AFA's product manager made the comment that "This is certainly not the end of the line for the game however, just a pretty substantial, but temporary, set-back."
According to IGN, the OFLC's report on Dark Sector describes the title as a "violent and sometimes gruesome game with a sinister storyline and ominous outcome. The violence and aggression inflicted upon the protagonist is of a high level, naturalistic and not stylised at all."
Apparantly there are several paragraphs detailing some of the excessive examples of violence in the game and the impact it will have, the impact "exceeds strong and as such cannot be accomplished in a MA15+ classification."
One such example of the extreme violence is "When Hayden cuts off his opponent's limb with the glaive, large amounts of blood spray forth from the stump and the injured person screams in agony which increases the impact." The report also mentions that some of the most violent elements of the gameplay, including "decapitation, dismemberment of limbs accompanied by large blood spurts, neck breaking twists and exploding bodies with post-action twitching body parts" are "relatively easy to accomplish".
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