This video serves the dual purpose of being a gameplay demo for the new Left 4 Dead (I’ve only seen a handful of in-game footage thus far) and showing you what it’s like when the government censors video games. Australia recently banned Left 4 Dead 2 because presumably, it was too violent, something that I didn’t even think was possible for a video game these days, especially when the violence is being directed toward zombies instead of say, kittens and children. But they thought the dismembering of the undead was too much for its citizens, so they now have this version of the game.

Now it’s not totally devoid of blood, there are a few drops post-pan whacking, but the mist I thought might be blood is actually just smoke from the gun. It plays the same way I guess, but when a game is all about massacring zombies, you’re losing a lot of the fun factor my making it PG-13. This doesn’t really matter in most games (I could give a shit about blood spray in Halo 3), but here, I think it’s pretty necessary. Don’t you?

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