While it seems PC gamers may be able to bypass the censorship of Left 4 Dead 2, Xbox 360 gamers have no such luck. But what about importing?
There’s a few options here. You could import from New Zealand or the UK, as the PAL version released in both countries escaped the censor’s knife.
But you could also import the region-free Asia version from Play Asia. It’s uncensored, will work on your PAL console has an English language option, and best of all, is only $US50. That’s considerably cheaper than you’re going to find in NZ or the UK.
Note: neither the US nor the Japanese versions are region free.
Also note: Forgot to mention, you’ll be importing a banned game. Customs may confiscate it, if discovered.
Where are you getting your Left 4 Dead 2 hit from?
Buy Left 4 Dead 2 [Play Asia, thanks Paul!]
Bronix
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:30 AMI know it’s been said before that when playing with someone who’s got the edited version that it will render all people’s version to the censored version. has anyone taken this into account? So does this mean that if playing matchmaking and you get paired up with other aussies that have got the censored versions, won’t this mean that your version will revert to the unedited version anyway? unless of course you play with friends, or you play with people overseas, but the lag already is pretty unbearable.
clint
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:22 AMcensor switch
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1030857
works for me, online, lan, etc. only downside i see so far, is your stats dont get collected. and less servers available (eg, only join to others with this mod) however there were heaps last night, and the more that use this, the more servers etc. I noticed that non-modded players could join too.
so for fun, play modded, for competition/stats go unmodded.
Border Ninja
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 5:59 PMCustoms Can and will take any game that has been banned. the risk is low but is possible.
Funny enough it comes under the same laws they prosecute child porn offenders on.
Just make sure your package doesn’t have the name of the game on the consignment or its gone. Customs does read all the consignment notes.
Chris
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 7:01 PMhttp://www.play-asia.com/paOS-00-3-xbox360_compatibility_guide-49-en-84-t.html
this sais that the us version is compatible with australian…any truth?
Tom
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 6:20 PMI know this thread’s mostly dealing with customs/physically acquiring side of things, but does anyone know if Steam will have issues with a Aust profile & a UK version?
Will Steam recognise software as from another region (and hence uncensored) and prevent you from playing?
Philr
Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 10:50 AMI have import version and i cant find any games to join!!!!
kai
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 12:30 PMcan I buy it form NZ ??
Harry
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 4:26 PMcan you play uncensored PAL version on xbox live without getting a ban or something like that
Doug
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:28 PMwhere can i buy the UK version of left 4 dead 2? i’m looking on the net n gettn real frustrated at the search results…
Lucy Kovalenko
Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 6:31 PMAs for me i didn’t have problem. I got the game from play asia and i found a crack activation code gerator to it on the web.
Spiney
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 6:15 PMJust recieved mine through import from the UK. Very happy. I had to have this in all it’s glory. Feels good to slip through the system. :)