10 Horror Video Games BANNED For Being Too Scary
5. Left 4 Dead 2
As ludicrously enjoyable as the Left 4 Dead games are - and, with a few friends, they're even quite hilarious - Australia's pesky OFLC stuck their nose in again, refusing to classify Left 4 Dead 2 because it failed to meet the standards of a MA15+ rating, the highest rating in the country at the time until 2013's R18+ was introduced.
The OFLC cited Left 4 Dead 2's "realistic, frenetic and unrelenting violence" as making it unacceptable for sale in Australia, despite the first game being released without incident.
Valve fought back against the ban in the weeks leading up to the game's planned release, but the Classification Review Board upheld the ban, largely due to the "insufficient delineation between the depiction of zombie characters and the human figures."
Valve had to ultimately settle for releasing a heavily cut version of the game which removed "decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies" - basically, all the fun and creepy stuff - until almost five years later in August 2014, when the uncut version was finally reclassified as R18+ and authorised for sale.