The gimped Australian videogames rating system has struck again, with Left 4 Dead 2 being forced to edit out a heap of stuff to get an MA15+ rating. David at Kotaku has a full run down of exactly what’s been edited out, plus a way that you can put it back in (on the demo, at least) with a simple bit of file editing.
Here’s a YouTube video showcasing the differences between our version and the rest of the world:
There are only so many times you can voice your frustration at a government who thinks it knows better than you. But let’s do it one more time in comments… And if you want to know how to get the gore back, hit up Kotaku…
[Kotaku]
Stephan
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 1:50 PMmy god that sucks. Guess whos ordering from asia/america
kalem
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 2:28 PMWell so much for buying it locally…
Does anyone know a good website that I can import games?
Shane
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 2:39 PMHow can we be living in a democracy when the minority of the governor generals can prevent changes to these laws AND withhold information pertaining to discussions they have had about the introduction of an R rating??
This is yet another example of why we no longer need a “state” based system and should move to unify this country under a single government. One people, one country, one law!
Ivan Prasad
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 3:37 PMFuck those bastards at the fucking classifications board
Gumby1008
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:08 PMThank god for new zeeland XD
Gumby1008
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:15 PMsorry zealand
Peter
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:24 PMI’ll just buy it online.
Daz
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:30 PMI can officially say now, that i will NOT be buying this game. As a PC user, even if i did buy the US verion, wont it be censored when i install it anyway? I would honestly prefer that they didnt release the game here. It’s insulting seeing the changes they’ve had to make. There are so many games out on the shelf now where if i shoot a barrel which explodes they ‘baddies’ catch fire… and they arent alloud it on here? and with the bodies dissapearing so suddenly! every single fps game that i can buy doesnt have such a hideous disappearing time. GAH!!!
NOT HAPPY JAN!
JJ
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:41 PMWell, forget buying the aussie version
Stephen Parry
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:52 PMomfg left 4 dead was such a good game…
this however looks like a game made in 2003…
will import or wont invest in this game
Ollie
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:21 AMMeh, even the uncut version has shite physics… letting off an assault rifle at something 1 foot away and they react like they got hit with the force of an air rifle at best.
Mattaus
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:43 AMI really don’t get some of the items they censored…why no burning zombies? They burnt in the first game. Why do the bodies have to disappear? They stayed there for a little while in the first version as well. I can under stand dismembering to a degree though it was also in the first game.
Seriously, the only difference between this game and L4D is the fact you can do it all in hand to hand – something you couldn’t do in the first game. It’s just censorship for the sake of it.
matt
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 2:49 PMthey didn’t make a special version for us, they just made a normal version and a low violence version, with the low violence version having to cater for the strictest countries like Germany. and we get stuck with this one this time, that is why it is less violent than the first one, we got the normal version of the first one.