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September 16, 2009

Left4Dead 2 Banned in Australia? [Update]

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Written by: Dalibor Dimovski
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Our friends over at Icrontic have a doozy of a bombshell for the Australian Left4Dead fanatics:  Apparently the OFLC, Australia’s media ratings board — much like our ESRB for games — has rated Left4Dead 2 as “RC”, or “Refused Classification”.

What does that mean?  Well for one it means that it cannot be sold in the land down under.

Icrontic are on the case and have contacted officials in Australia.  Dear Australia:  How do you expect your citizens to be prepared for the coming Zombie War if they are not trained properly???

Tsk!

UPDATE:  Here’s the official reply from the OLFC, as the game was pretty much deemed “too violent” even for adults!

[Check out Icrontic for the full article]



About the Author

Dalibor Dimovski
Dali is the co-founder of SideQuesting, as well as the co-Founder of CarDesignFetish and the founder of MakLink. A long-time blogger/web-designer, Dali currently works as a full-time creative Product Designer in the automotive industry and a deejay. His passions are music, contemporary and classic art, video games (naturally), and his family.




  • tiger-spy

    “However, it is the use of the “melee” weapons such as the crowbar, axe, chainsaw and Samurai sword which inflict the most damage. These close in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore. Projectile shots to infected humans can cause abdominal wounds which can reveal innards or even cause intestines to spill from the wounds.”

    that makes me want to play this game right there.

    come on! jebus h keeripes, people are so godamn sensitive these days. i will never understand why people always get so upset over the depiction of violence in film and games. it’s fantasy. it’s an escape from reality. it’s not real! that’s exactly why it’s fun.

    if i ever saw a real zombie i’d run for the hills much less “melee” the hell out of it with a chainsaw. are you effing kidding me?

    why don’t people also ban books that depict “abdominal wounds which can reveal innards”? that’s fine though because obviously literature is a higher form of entertainment for intellectuals, where as videogames are for idiots who can’t tell the diference between fantasy and reality. hey jeb, why dun’s we’s chainsaw all y’all neighbors like dem zombiez in dat dere left’em fer dead game huh? oh yuh dat be purdy kewl.