NEWS FLASH! Left 4 Dead 2 not as good when censored.

As you've probably heard, the Australian government had previously banned Left 4 Dead 2 from being sold in the country. This forced Valve to either censor it, or lose out on a nice chunk of change. They chose to censor their content. Here's a playthrough of the first map of the demo on the Australian version, in all of it's non-gore glory.

As you can see, the blood has basically been completely taken out. Dead bodies almost immediately disappear, the fancy new limb dismemberment of the sequel is completely disabled, and the infected are unable to catch fire. Bad news for L4D fans from down under, as this version looks pretty dull compared to ours.

Luckily there's a way to bypass this censorship! At least if you're a PC gamer that is. Thanks to the PC's nature of being open and moddable, you can edit some files to bring all the blood and gore back to where it should be. No guarantees that this will continue to work on the full version, but for now have fun and check out the process HERE.