The previously-banned Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 has been approved for release by the Australian Classification Board - but at a price.
A database entry published yesterday reveals that the zombie sequel was approved an 'MA 15+' rating in Aus, upturning the previous 'banning' issued last month.
But, according to the board's notes, the Australian version no longer contains "depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment." At least it's coming out though, eh?
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"No wound detail is shown and the implicitly dead bodies and blood splatter disappear as they touch the ground," the board notes read.
The report confirms that melee weapons, such as "axes, crowbars and chainsaws" are still in the Aussie game, so you can still chop stuff up. It just won't bleed.
In other L4D news, Valve unveiled a fourth game mode today. Read up on 'Left 4 Dead 2 Scavenge'.
So a zombie-killing game without any disfigurement and no blood. Umm. Has the Aussie classification board ever seen a zombie movie? That's kind of the whole point.
I can see the European version selling a lot of overseas copies - they were talking about stopping people doing that but they haven't yet, right?
They'll probably target anything posted into Oz from a webbie that sels these games in Europe. Also they may bar financial transactions for purchasing said games from outside Oz.
To me that screams illegality but there you go. When the govt. does it it's legal, when we do it we get 15 years.
ffs Valve you've let me down. You should have said, "Hey Austrailia, you don't want this game as it is? You want to keep thinking of games as childrens toys? Fkuc you then, Fcuk you Austrailia".
As a result of Austrailia's rife 'dips**tism' now kids can play this game. The kids know they're shooting zombies to death, but now they'll be thinking that if you kill someone they'll just disappear, or that if you swing an axe at someones arm their arm will stay firmly attached to its shoulder. Because kids are so easily infulenced.
ffs Valve you've let me down. You should have said, "Hey Austrailia, you don't want this game as it is? You want to keep thinking of games as childrens toys? Fkuc you then, Fcuk you Austrailia".
As a result of Austrailia's rife 'dips**tism' now kids can play this game. The kids know they're shooting zombies to death, but now they'll be thinking that if you kill someone they'll just disappear, or that if you swing an axe at someones arm their arm will stay firmly attached to its shoulder. Because kids are so easily infulenced.
Stupid Austrailian politician asshats.
Exactley what drugs have you been snorting/smoking/shooting? delete as applicable.
I was just taking the Austrailian extremist logic to a strange place. Also I got interuppted by visitors and well, kind of just pressed submit before examining what I was trying to say, rationalising or indeed proof reading.
I think the thought train I was on (before getting off at the wrong stop) was taking me to the conclusion that by not having an adult rated games system in Austrailia and instead relying on developers making obviously Adult games fit into teenager shaped holes, their solution is actually adding to the problem it's supposed to be preventing - protcting the youth of Austrailia. Instead of Adults happily playing Adult themed games children can now play them because there's no blood when you shoot a guy in the face.
I'd be happier if kids played kids games, where no face shooting was involved and Adults could play games that allow them to shoot people in the face with realistic splatter.
If I still haven't got my point across FiltyMonkey it's probably down to either all the crack I've been snorting, the LSD or my keyboard turning into cubist art.
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