"House of the Dead: Overkill-Extended Cut" is dead on arrival here in Australia after it was refused classification from the Classification Board.

Sega's "House of the Dead: Overkill" on the PlayStation 3 has received the non-rating, which bans it for sale. It was due to go on sale Oct. 27 with support for the PlayStation's Move motion controllers and additional levels. It was the new levels that apparently did the game in with the Classification Board.

"The game contains very frequent, unrelenting and detailed violence accompanied by copious blood and gore detail inflicted on zombies and mutant beings," the board report states. "The player can use a variety of weapons including a crossbow that causes the zombies/mutants to explode on impact as well as handguns, hand cannons, machine guns, mini guns and assault rifles that may cause decapitations, dismemberment and blood spray," according to board report.

"The 'Hardcore' game mode allows players to play in a manner that exceeds strong in impact," says the board, "engaging a headshot-only mode which results in frequent, detailed blood and gore as the zombies and mutants [sic] heads explode into bloody pieces that spread around the environment and onto the screen. The game also contains an 'Extra mutants mode' which increases the amount of mutants the player must kill to proceed, resulting in an increased intensity and frequency of violence. In addition the game contains a baby mutant that jumps onto the screen and explodes into bloody chunks when killed."

The board had already allowed the release of the game on the original Wii version as an MA15+ game but apparently the new "Hardcore mode" was too much to handle.

SEGA Australia has announced it would be appeal the decision and that it will be resubmitting the game for reclassification.

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