We’re talking about the hand on the cover, of course. According to a report from 1UP, the new cover of Left 4 Dead 2 has a change in style: instead of two of the fingers being bitten off the hand, they’re only bent back, as you can see in the image that follows this article.
Initially, the pinky and ring fingers were bitten off just like the thumb, but that was considered too graphic by the ESRB, and Valve had to change the image. Strangely, just as in the first case, the thumb is OK to be torn – which kind of makes little sense if we are to debate what “too graphic” means: why one torn thumb is less scarier than two or three? I guess that we’ll never have the answer and probably we shouldn’t care either. Protesters should be the happier side right now: with a less graphic and less scary cover, Left 4 Dead 2 now might prove to be less appealing to more gamers, right?