After Left 4 Dead 2 was essentially banned in Australia following the country's Office of Film and Literature Classification refusal to assign the game a rating last month, Valve was no doubt left scrambling to come up with a solution. While the game's developer is undoubtedly hoping that its appeal will be met with a reasonable and level-headed response, an edited version of the game more likely to pass the OFLC's stringent guidelines has been created and submitted for approval. The hope is that even if the original is not approved, Australians won't be faced with a delay and the game will be able to make it out -- in one form or another -- on the game's planned release date.
The news comes by way of Valve head Gabe Newell (via AusGamers), who was in Australia meeting with a local modder who, with the help of an online community, managed to raise enough money to fly Newell out to see his work.
Should the original version of L4D2 be approved after the edited version is released, Newell promises that a free update will be released for the PC version of the game adding in the edited content. Owners of the Xbox 360 version of the game might not be so lucky due to the more complicated policies of releasing content for a console game.
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