A conscientious YouTube user has uploaded this video which demonstrates the differences between the censored Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 and the uncensored international version.

A word of warning: the video contains material that the Classification Board has deemed unsuitable for persons under 15 to watch.

While this may seem excessive, games like Dead Space and Mad World both feature equivalent, if not greater levels of violence, and yet both have been rated MA15+.

The arch-irony of all of this is that it took users all of two whole seconds to figure out the simple steps to unlock the restricted content so that they could play the uncensored version. Now anybody purchasing the game on the PC in Australia will be able to completely circumvent the censoring and play the game as it was originally intended – which just goes to further prove the pointlessness of trying to prevent the flow of electronic information.

Left 4 Dead 2 goes on sale on November 20 in Australia, under an MA15+ rating.

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One Comment on L4D2 Censorship Comparison

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   Glenn says:

   Quiet, Tim, enough of these types of posts like this one on other gaming sites and the OFLC will finally catch wind and decide to ban more and more games on the suspicion that they can be patched to remove the restricted content.

   Thanks for posting the link. So I’m assuming that all you have to do is change two files and that this method will also work on the full game, not just the demo?