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Left 4 Dead 2 receives MA 15+ rating in Australia, is un-banned

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Hello there, OFLC website. How are you doing? Oh, hey, what’s that you’ve got there? Is that… why, it is! It’s an MA 15+ rating for Left 4 Dead 2! Guess the game’s coming out in Australia after all.

Gabe, you crazy rascal. What’d you do? Oh… oh my. Wanna talk about it? Come here. Give us a hug.

6 comments

#1

Jadeskye
08/10/09, 6:21 am

any crazy changes? green blood? disapearing bodies?

#2

Gekidami
08/10/09, 6:54 am

Porobably, the first one had green blood and disapearing bodies. It’ll be interesting to know where melee weapons stand thats the reason it got banned in the first place so have they been totally taken out?

#3

Yoshi
08/10/09, 7:45 am

I thought the main reason it got banded was just becos when u used a melee weapon you could rip peoples heads off

#4

Filofax
08/10/09, 9:31 am

Just found this on news.com.au.

The sequel to a popular video game has been modified so it can be sold in Australia.

Left 4 Dead 2 has been given an MA 15+ rating after it was refused classification in September.

According to the classification board report, the modified version removes considerable amounts of gore from gameplay.

“The board notes that the game no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment,” the report said.

“No wound detail is shown and the implicitly dead bodies and blood splatter disappear as they touch the ground.”

The report confirmed that melee weapons, such as “axes, crowbars and chainsaws” were still in the game.

#5

Gekidami
08/10/09, 9:55 am

Well atleast Valve managed to keep the games main (*cough*only*cough*) new feature: Melee weapons.

#6

Patrick Garratt
08/10/09, 10:10 am

Thanks. I’ve done another story.

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