10. The Darkness

The Darkness is a first person shooter where the player uses guns and his newly found demonic powers to vanquish enemies. As seen with Mass Effect, Singapore also banned The Darkness as well. The rationale was more sensible as they were worried of concerns of “excessive graphic violence.” There is no doubting that the game does indeed have quite a bit of graphic violence – but that isn’t the entire story.

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Soon after the game was banned in Singapore, the Playstation 3 ban was lifted. Oddly, the Xbox 360 version remained banned. It’s highly unlikely that this was a simple oversight and the Playstation version was no different than the content found in the Xbox version. It leads some to believe a bribe may have happened to remove the ban. Would Sony care that much for one game? Who knows, but it does make the Xbox 360 ban to be quite intriguing.