Digital Extremes are no strangers to the shooter genre - they had a defining hand in the creation of the Unreal franchise, as well as the largely forgettable Pariah. They first unveiled their Sci-Fi title Dark Sector in 2004 with an in-game cinematic; hardly likely to instil much confidence in followers of fast-action titles who generally prefer actual game footage. With the news of a complete restructure in 2006 to remove a lot of the sci-fi elements, it seemed Dark Sector was to be relegated to the status of vapourware, and with the market absolutely flooded with similar titles we can't say for sure that anyone would have missed it.

Fortunately however, it appears Dark Sector is now nearing completion, and it must be pretty damn good because it's been refused classification in Australia. Apparently, a collection of pixels moving in a certain fashion have produced a "violent and sometimes gruesome game with a sinister storyline and ominous outcome." Sounds mint!

The Dark Sector story isn't much to write home about, unless your home hasn't seen a video game since the early 80's. You have the basic requirements for any third person shooter - a protagonist with an unlikely name (Hayden? Really?), a supervirus threatening to destroy the world, and a mad scientist who needs to be taken out at all costs. Plus, it's set largely in Eastern Europe, because virtually nobody goes there on holiday and the developers can make all the scenery up.