Last month we discussed news that Valve's upcoming shooter
Left 4 Dead 2 had been
denied classification in Australia, which meant the game could not be legally sold there. Now, after a series of edits which removed "considerable amounts of gore from gameplay," Australia's classification board has
given the game an MA15+ rating. Their
new report (PDF) says, "No wound detail is shown and the implicitly dead bodies and blood splatter disappear as they touch the ground. ... The board notes that the game no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment." The unmodified version of the game
may still be approved, pending a review that concludes on October 22nd.