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Australian gamers clamoring to get their hands on the upcoming sequel to Valve's zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead 2, were given the harsh news of the game's ban earlier this week. The Australian Classifications Board refused the game, denying it to be sold anywhere in the country.

As you could have probably guessed, this news doesn't sit well with Valve. VP of Marketing, Doug Lombardi, told IGN the company was surprised by the ban

"We were surprised to hear of this news. Obviously, everyone at Valve is disappointed," he said. "It would be a shame if folks in Australia, or anywhere else, are unable to purchase Left 4 Dead 2 because of a ratings issue."

The game was denied classification due to its 'high impact violence' against 'living humans infected with a rabies-like virus.'

EA Australia is currently working through the submission process to see what, if anything can be done. Valve, meanwhile, is still collecting the details as well.

"As for what's next, we don't really know yet," Lombardi added. "We're still getting information back."

That fails. But it does raise my hopes for how good and violent L4D2 will be

Good, Now just ban in USA and were good.. First one was too short and hardly had a story line at all.

hehehehehe, good job im not an AUZZIE

haha i cannot believe they gave it one of the highest ratings in australia, does that mean they are going to need seperate servers, as two different versions of the same game cannot go together as the others would cancel out, so whats gonna happen to them

Australia needs to get its act together...

oh it does, i dont get how they can place such a high rating on such a great game

that really sucks it's a game ffs!

are u serious omg (gdfgrty /76/6r/'=67p) <<<Smashes Keyboard

Thank god I live in the USA, otherwise we'd probably get that ban.