9 Video Games Banned For Ridiculous Reasons

Released in 2007, The Darkness is based on the popular comic book of the same name.

The game and comic and whatever other medium it happens to appear in follows Jackie Estacado, a Mafioso who receives unholy powers from an entity named 'The Darkness'.

Using his new powers, which mostly manifest as two eel-like tentacle creatures, Jackie paints the town red by going on a violent rampage through New York. This violent rampage can become an obscenely violent rampage, depending on the player's personal tastes.

Now it's not rare that a game gets banned for violence - Venezuela banned shooting games altogether, for example. So it shouldn't have come as much of a surprise when The Darkness was banned in Singapore for excessive violence.

Not surprising, no, but what makes this ban ridiculous is that it was eventually lifted but only for the PS3 version.

The Darkness was multi-platform and the initial ban covered all consoles, so why was it only dropped for one version? It's an honest question; Singaporean readers please get in touch!