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When Valve and publishing partner EA appealed the Australian rating board’s decision to refuse classification for Left 4 Dead 2 in the country, essentially making it illegal to sell down-under, Valve also sent through a cut down version of the game featuring altered content in order to pass classification.

That version of Left 4 Dead 2 received an MA 15+ rating, which meant that a censored version of the game would be allowed to go on sale, and would not contain “depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment,” which was a major concern for the Australian ratings board, the OFLC.

Simultaneously, though, Valve and EA appealed the original classification refusal of a fully featured Left 4 Dead 2, dismemberment and all, which has now officially been denied a rating and will not go on sale in Australia.

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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:

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