Syndicate Remake Effectively Banned from Sale in Australia

The Classification Board in Australia has announced that the Syndicate remake from developer Starbreeeze and publisher Electronic Arts has been refused classification in the country, which means that no stores will carry it and players will have a very hard time getting a copy.

The rating agency does not say exactly which element in the game has persuaded them to ban the game from sale but it does deliver some information on the content that gamers might find questionable.

The report offers reason like, “Combatants take locational damage and can be explicitly dismembered, decapitated or bisected by the force of the gunfire. The depictions are accompanied by copious bloodspray and injuries are shown realistically and with detail. Flesh and bone are often exposed while arterial sprays of blood continue to spirt from wounds at regular intervals.”

Syndicate will launch on February 21 in North America and three days later in Europe on the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.