well lol ofcourse they are going to be displeased

It's funny how Americans think they are so much better than Australians and are saying crap about our government, but i ask you americans is it not your country that has one of the most dangerous crime-rate? Maybe your 'super fantastic so-called leaders' need to start banning violent games and then maybe the world would become a better place. Stop bagging Australia you violent pieces of s hit.

What a bummer for Australians, however the first poster wrote about Australia rules on weaponry. And guns aren't banned, just the ones that are dangerous = smgs.

Hey guest we have the 24th most violent country that's not even in top 20. I don't see how you can support censorship in you're country but I suppose it's people like you that decided for no ma18 rating. We wouldent want your twenty somthing year olde tramatized by violence. Have fun without the game!

Australians that are for the gun ban, bend over and take it in the keaster!!!


good da mate!!!

I would just like to throw something on the table for those questioning why the Australian government enforced a national firearms agreement was because of the Port Aurthur massacres and the public outcry it caused.

According to Australian bureau of statistics homicide rates have actually fallen since 1996 when the buy back occurred. Other examples include between 1997 - 1998 murder rates in Australia fell by 12% leaving It at a six year low, this being two years after the gun buy back. There was also a decrease of 12% in the firearm suicide rates between 1992 - 2002. If these figures lead you to believe that the gun buy back did not have at least a small positive effect on the safety of the Australian public and instead inversely had a significant negative effect on the safety of the Australian public then I simply cannot understand your logic.

The previous maybe wrongly interpreted so feel free to correct me if I have done so.

My Opinion (Not factual):

I for one do not buy into the paranoia created and believed by other poster's in this forum that criminal's are deterred by hand gun wielding public when they have the easy access to high powered assault rifles (excluding New York, New Jersey and Connecticut). With over 200 million firearms in the U.S.A it seems that more than anything the gun laws (or lack there of) are more than anything the ultimate defense in times of war against invasion, the safety of the individual merely a smoke screen.

P.S (to stay somewhat on topic) I agree that the classification board In Australia are horribly out of touch with the modern gaming demographic and seem to naively assume only kids play games. In reality nothing could be further from the truth, I feel such double standards between movies and video game classification grossly inappropriate for developed country/continent such as Australia to have. I also however feel that dead space and Fear 2 (haven't played the original, didn't hear great things about it) are far worse than left 4 dead (assuming l4d 2 is similar). In such I begin to wonder how the board determines the ratings on games, probably by the headless chicken method as seen on south park.

If you cant tell I am from Australia.

Wh1tebum

Haha wow this thread went from computer games to politics,government corruption and 'my country is better then yours' war

Interesting..

Interesting perhaps, but certainly nothing new or unique. :rolleyes: :haha: :wave:

This statement perhaps should have been followed by "typical".

It is typical Captain

And rather enjoyable to read.

Which = Interesting

Being an inhabitant of "Killadelphia", a video game ban seems like much ado about nothing.

For us, "left for dead" is, (sadly), our way of life.

Damn i hope the ban gets lifted i really wanted this game