On its first attempt at trying to become accepted by the age ratings board in Australia, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), Left 4 Dead 2 had a miserable time and was ultimately rejected and denied a rating, which meant that Valve’s next zombie co-operative shooter wouldn’t be allowed to appear on store shelves in the country.

Valve recently appealed the rejection, however, by submitting a version of Left 4 Dead 2 to the classification board with altered content, in order to ease the board’s concerns over the game.

[Update] Details on what’s been cut from the Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 follows below:

It seems as though the plan has worked, because an official classification and age rating recently appeared on the OFLC website, stamping Left 4 Dead 2 with a MA 15+, and declaring it to contain “Strong bloody violence.”

Just the way we like our zombie games.

If it is the edited content that got Left 4 Dead 2 through the Australian ratings board, Valve has promised that a patch will be released to add the removed content back in, for PC gamers at least. Xbox 360 players may not be so lucky…

Source: VG247

[Update] In order to get the approval of the ratings board in Australia, some extreme cuts have been made by Valve including the fact that the game “no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment,” while “No wound detail is shown and the implicitly dead bodies and blood splatter disappear as they touch the ground.”

You can read the entire report made by the OFLC concerning Left 4 Dead 2 over here.