this is so stupid. if anything about it is inappropriate for 15 year olds its the shooting things. even 5 year olds have seen blood before. so i fail to see how removing blood from a game makes it more appropriate

ya all the cool dismembering and flesh falling off animations are gone boo

It actualy doesnt look THAT bad. is not as sloppy or detailed as the original version, but I expected worse.

Nothing is more satisfying for me than looking over the piles of bodies I create after alerting the horde. A zombie game without blood and guts just isn't the same.

It must be a sad day for the sexiest man alive.

not as bad as I expected...
still sucks though
I thought Australia was cool

Well, that was rather depressing to watch. I'm not the kind of gamer that needs gore to make a game good, but L4D2 just seems kind of...barren without any actual results from blasting a zombie in the head with a shotgun.

Too dinky.

Gore is to Left 4 Dead 2 as swearing to Pulp Fiction.

Are they the things that make the respective properties great? No.

Are they still really fucking important to said properties? YOU BET YOUR ASS, MOTHERFUCKER

Without blood and dismemberment would probably be ok, and maybe if the bodies faded away after 30 seconded like older games did to save memory. But this looked really bad the way the bodies barely hit the floor before they vanished.

Although it could be it's we're watching a video knowing what to look for rather than playing it.

As an Australian I can speak on this with SOME "degree of authority" I suppose.

Basically, I refunded the game because of the ridiculous censorship they placed in game.

The gore is not the only thing removed, the uncommon infected aren't in the game either because they 'represent an authority figure'(The SWAT team uncommon) and we aren't allowed to shoot them. This means any server an Australian joins has uncommon infected disabled meaning we'd probably get kicked from some not-so-generous American players.

I am however waiting to see how the dust settles once the game is released. I know our retarded OFLC doesn't reclassify games that have already been classified (MW2 got rated even with the terrorist scene, I'd probably consider that worse than L4D2. Point is, in light of the terrorist level some people are calling for reclassification but the OFLC has said they don't reclassify games. (know the double standards they have they'll probably break this rule anyway))

SORRY I DIGRESS. Point is, I don't believe game patches or DLC are rated by the OFLC so Valve can probably just release a patch once the game is launched to add delicious delicious violence, whether they will or not, I do not know.

I will also state that this censorship seems WAY over the top. L4D1 wasn't censored here and in its current form is more violent than L4D2...it almost seems as Valve has gone over the top with censorship (to the point of it being a joke) to simply ensure that the game got classified in time for launch.

This comment is probably poorly written and full of factual errors but I'm in a hurry so I apologise in advanced.

I think they should put little orange tips on the ends of all the guns to. You know, just to be sure nobody is offended and to insure the Australian / German youth aren't corrupted by those horrible guns!

*sigh* Don't worry aussie / german bros I'm sure you guys will have a workaround for these shenanigans when it releases.

Fark, it was super hard pretending to be immersed while playing this demo without gore. You'd have an epic battle with a horde and some special infected, only for the dust to settle and have one or two blood splatters on the wall...sigh. I miss you, blood.

I don't think they can just release a patch or DLC to bring back the gore and the uncommon infected...it would circumvent everything they are trying to achieve by blocking it in the first place. Now, I do not agree with what they are doing, but if it was that easy to against them...well...it wouldn't be such a big deal at all would it?
Companies would release games blood and gore free and just patch it in the day after release to get around any sort of rating system...

the worst part of this video was the magnum pistol. The lack of gore I can deal with since the gore in L4D wasn't really much more intense than this, but damn that magnum looks bad. ugly viewmodel, fills up half the screen, and the textures flicker around schizophrenically. Now THAT'S something they need to censor.

GOD DAMN IT PAUL HOGAN

It's not my blog, but Skribble detailed in the CBlogs how to add in the gore to the Australian version of the game.

@Solid Squirrel
Thing is, with L4D2 on PC at least, there are many console commands and the moddability to allow you to make the game just how you want.
Hell, I KNOW there's a command to slow zombies down, I've used it on my expert solo/nobots runs.

Alright, so if your gonna edit the hell out of it, I demand the zombies to at least bleed rainbows. And if we must edit their dismemberment, bunnies and unicorns can fly off them instead....*sigh* Need another beer now.

Oh Gawd, it's like playing Gears of War with the Adult content switched off again.

It's really interesting on a pure analystic level though. Whit all the fluff removed, this shows that the FPS genre gameplay hasn't really evolved since 1993. It's Doom but with more polygons.

That's the censored version of L4D2 ? Hah ! I was actually expecting to see candy as their blood and rainbows flying towards them instead of bullets. Oh well.

Further proof why New Zealand is better than Australia.

Hey dont blame Australia as a whole.

The entire Video Game Community is being held to ransom because of a Single, Solitary Attorney-General from South Australia.

Michael Atkinson.

So anytime you want to bash our lack of a rating system, specifically mention his name so hopefully we can get the bastard voted out, or at least show how flawed our system is that a single man can have this much power....

@Luigi
Which actually would've increased the value of the Australian version!

Dammit Valve! Oppurtunity missed!