Left 4 Dead 2 Ditches Dismemberment, Secures OFLC Rating

Actually it may surprise you to find out that there is nothing in the Australian Constitution that grants us freedom of speech, the only rights we have are trial by jury and freedom of religion. Decisions in the high courts have implied freedom of speech but there is nothing stoping the government from making legislation to censor speech *cough*web filter*cough* and every time the Issue of a Bill of Rights gets brought up it just gets swept under the rug as quickly as possible.

I think the word you're looking for is Discrimination. I agree.

O_O kids? with a baseball bat , slingshot , dustbin lid , metal pipe (or is that a shovel?) and a brick beating up other kids? *SHOCK HORROR* its vile FILTH *sarcasme*

THEIR EMULATING GAMES THINK OF THE CHILDREN

The thing is they wanted it approved in time for their global release, so they overcensored it, this isn't the stuff they HAD to remove but the stuff that would get it approved faster

oh and if the appeal is succesful then the AU version will be patched to the global version, but thats a big if

what I don't get is why they can rate a whole game faster then process an apeal on a game they already know

That's my question too. If that change is for every version then all I have to say is "way to go sucking Austrailia's **** for those few extra bucks, Valve."

I'm not really all that mad that that stuff is being taken out, it's what that change represents that pisses me off. I mean really what's the point of even making a zombie (or any other) game if you're going to easily bend to the will of an archaic classification system? You may as well just replace the guns with super soakers filled with rainbows and the zombies with cute teddy bears. That will appease all the rating boards and "family value" groups, but that doesn't make it a good idea.