Once "that" footage of Modern Warfare 2 was leaked earlier this week, we knew there was going to be trouble. It was only a matter of time.

But while many of us may have been expecting the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman, perhaps even Jack Thompson to go ballistic over this, the first reaction seems to have instead come from a most unexpected source.

Spoilers follow, as it pertains to the footage, so read on at your own risk.

Though revealed to be optional, the portion of Modern Warfare 2 that places you behind the sites of a terrorist/undercover agent shooting up an airport, the story was picked up by the Associated Press, and has now led Australia to reconsider the game's MA15+ rating.

As MA15+ is the country's highest rating, bumping it up could possibly see Modern Warfare 2 banned from sale down under.

The rating report states:

"Several civilians are shot with blood burst bullet wounds; civilian corpses are strewn across the airport floor, often in stylised pools of blood; injured civilians crawl away with lengthy blood trails behind them."

It goes on to note that damage cannot be inflicted upon civilian bodies post-mortem, and that all other missions result in failure if civilian casualties are incurred. As previously noted, Activision has stated that the scene is meant to "evoke the atrocities of terrorism."

Jane Roberts of the Australian Council on Children and the Media notes that even with the MA15+ rating, it would still be available to children. "The consequences of terrorism are just abhorrent in our community," she said, "and yet here we are with a product that's meant to be passed off as a leisure time activity, actually promoting what most world leaders speak out publicly against."

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the lobby group known as Electronic Frontiers Australia, Nicholas Suzor, is using the controversy to call for a new R18+ rating for such games released in the country. At the same time, he dismisses that a game could actually foster terrorism:

"Films often show the villain's perspective and, by doing that, they get across the character's story and the heinous nature of people who carry out atrocities. Games, too, are becoming more expressive, and are telling more involved stories. We may make an argument that these sorts of topics are not suitable for children, but I don't at all accept that it is unsuitable for adults."

Time is growing short, however, as the game is due to be released in Australia on November 10th.