Left 4 Dead 2 -- Banned in Australia

[DarkKnightH20]

Uh oh. Looks like Australia is being picky about Left 4 Dead 2. Some of you may not care much about this, but it looks like they want to ban the game.

In an interesting development, Australia has banned Left 4 Dead 2. The former prison colony failed to rate the game, which means that the game will not be release there. The main reason on why the game was banned was because the game had “high impact violence” and...[ Snip ]

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Obviously, people in Australia will grab this game despite the ban, but that's pretty dumb to ban the game out right. Oh well.

[Uzu]

I personally think it won't be forbidden but censored as in many other countries, such as germany... so austrian ppl dont need to worry, but they can importan l4d2 from amazone or so easily so it's no matter at all

[youshi]

lol it will get only censored, but its not that bad. go download it somewhere if that happen.

[FLaMeS]

Man People are some damn whinny *itches.

Like how they were saying RE 5 was racist blah blah blah....cuz its in Africa and it's blasting heads off black zombies.... but no one said anything when RE 4 was based in Spain and u were blasting heads off people there....

They just looking and waiting to censor or ban games now...dumb

Seriously it's a damn game, shouldn't be taken so serious.

[Raine]

Just pre-ordered it on steam, I think it will be the full version available for download through steam even in Australia.

Edit:
Oops just saw the latest article posted this morning:
http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/103/1033083p1.html

It's been MA15+ rating, I have a feeling this whole thing served quite well as a marketing ploy.

[Eric]

Just pre-ordered it on steam, I think it will be the full version available for download through steam even in Australia.

Edit:
Oops just saw the latest article posted this morning:
IGN: AU: Left 4 Dead 2 Classified

It's been MA15+ rating, I have a feeling this whole thing served quite well as a marketing ploy.

seriously GTFO since when do you play zombie FPS games... I've played L4D1 since it came out and lead competitive teams in leagues.

[sacrid]

Australia can lick on it...

[crackurbak]

the government is considering a 18+ game rating for gory games like these.
but its still under constant fire from whiney as politicians here, cuz of the impact it has on little kids.
buttt yeah, we have a strong catholic background, thus why so much shit is banned

[expo]

wait why they got banned wat happened

[expo]

that must suck really badly

[expo]

is usa gonna have any trouble?

[Raine]

seriously GTFO since when do you play zombie FPS games... I've played L4D1 since it came out and lead competitive teams in leagues.

Since L4D1 but nowhere near a pro like you? lol
Got my mate to gift it to me from UK through steam to get around the stupid Australian censorship for L4D2.

[Uzu]

wait why they got banned wat happened

that must suck really badly

is usa gonna have any trouble?

lol some1 needed 50 posts...

[Trashst3r]

this game rocks and sud not be banned :P

[storm]

are they afraid i might go out and kill zombies in real life? wow gtfo if this passes