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Home News Australia Scared of Zombies, Bans House of the Dead

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Australia Scared of Zombies, Bans House of the Dead

Posted on Wednesday, August 24 @ 15:40:46 Eastern by Sebastian_Moss
SEGA Australia has confirmed that House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut has been refused a classification in Australia.


The PS3 game was supposed to launch on October 27th with Playstation Move support, but the Australian Classification Board gave the game a 'Refused Classification' rating.

SEGA responded to the middle finger from the board:

SEGA Australia are determined to appeal the decision immediately and hope to have the classification overturned without making any changes or amends to the final game.

Darren MacBeth, managing director of SEGA Australia, continued:

There are far worse titles currently available in the marketplace which involve more than shooting down mutants in humorous circumstances. We will do everything we can to prove that House of the Dead: Overkill is worthy of an MA15+ rating in Australia.

It is also interesting to note that the original Wii game was classified as MA15+ in December 2008, so the board seems to believe the two new levels make the game too dangerous for the Australian public. In other news, the board recently rated films such as I Scored a Soccer Mom! Vol 7 and 8th Street Latinas Vol 7, along with films that have far more NSFW titles.

Luckily, the Attorneys General have reached an in-principle agreement to introduce an R18+ category for videogames in the country, but they said it won't be more lenient than the current one.
Related Games:   House of the Dead: OVERKILL - Extended Cut


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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
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    Posted: Aug 24th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
    Oi...oi...oi...
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
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    Posted: Aug 24th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
    Thank God I live in the good ol’ US of A where we don’t have government ratings boards. Who ever thought of them was a real “genius.”
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  • damo_rox619
    damo_rox619
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    Posted: Aug 24th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
    hate living in australia. leaders are wusses
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  • OdiousLupous
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    Posted: Aug 24th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
    Australian government needs to remember it spawned from an english penal colony and grow a pair.
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
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    Posted: Aug 25th, 2011 at 12:40 am
    a pair of what?
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    BALLS MORON
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  • dirty_f
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    Posted: Aug 24th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
    our government is a mess. this is a good example of them putting their priorities in the wrong place. how hard can it be to get video game retailers to ask for i.d to sell an R18+ game?
    they can do it for booze, hardcore porn (not that id know anythin bout that...), cigarettes and brothels () so do it for games, god dammit!
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    Posted: Aug 26th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
    You have the internet, who the hell "buys" porn?
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