House of the Dead Overkill HD has been refused classification, essentially banned, in Australia. This is despite the Wii version sailing past with an MA15+ rating in 2009. The issue of contention with the OFLC is a new ‘Hardcore Mode’, this mode increases the requirement for headshots and the number of zombies/mutants needing to be killed to progress, which in turn increases the amount of gore on screen. There is also mentionin the OFLC documentation of a baby mutant that leaps onto the screen and then explodes into bloody chunks when shot.

Yes this does seem massively inconsistent with many games available for sale right now that feature all of these things, Dead Space springs to mind for monster babies. But that’s the judgement, needless to say Sega of Australia are unhappy, “There are far worse titles currently available in the marketplace which involve more than shooting down mutants in humorous circumstances,” claimed Managing Director Darren Macbeth, "We will do everything we can to prove that House of the Dead: Overkill is worthy of an MA15+ rating in Australia.”

There can only be one logical explanation for this, the OFLC are zombies and this ban is another in a long list of their attempts to restrict access to zombie elimination training simulators from the public. People of Australia, import this game immediately, for the sake of the children, before they become walking happy meals for OFLC zombies! Import this game! Train your children! Rent Army of Darkness as an educational tool!