After getting a couple years of catch-up light gun games from SEGA, we're finally getting to the good stuff. The House of the Dead: Overkill blends some great gameplay with an impressive style, some great humor, and enough violence and vulgarity to confuse the hell out of soccer moms looking for a new Sims game or Petz title.
I wouldn't put the overall production value or difficulty up there with WoW's offerings just yet, but for a relaunch of the series on Wii, Overkill is off to a very nice start. A few technical hitches can be found, and it's obvious that the team had its hands full trying to get this one out the door with as much as possible, but even more polish and refinement in the future could do wonders for the series on Wii.
Buy this awesome addition to Wii's hardcore library en mass, so we can all get another dose of Dead on Wii ASAP.
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Jerry from BagoGames says, "Let's honor the passing of the horror-film inspiration George Romero with these five horror video games that remind me of his genius."
Adam from GamersFTW writes "Are zombie games meant to be fun, frightening or something else entirely? Zombie media these days is like rubbish after a particularly rough party; it’s everywhere and somebody really should clean it up. So in that spirit let’s better define the different types of games we have in this pile and what mood they’re best played in."
Never really thought about discretising zombie games in this way, but have played and enjoyed most of these for various reasons.
House of the Dead Overkill is a laugh. "Critics say it's mother-f***ing good!" Classic.
I definitely reccomend looking at Killing Floor 2. To me, it is the next big thing in survival horror. While it's not exactly "zombies" the horror factor mixed with co-op and customization makes it feel like a standalone CoD zombies title. I just feel as it is only on PC at the moment it doesn't get enough publicity.
I was gonna say "where's DayZ" but then I remembered I haven't really noticed the zombies' presence in DayZ for the last 3 years
Im buying it.
A while back, one of my friends asked me if there was or were going be any Wii games involving shotguns. I directed him to the Overkill trailer, and he responded by saying "Sold!"
I did a good thing.
Lol, watch a fanboy say "finally a good Wii game", although it'll be like their 25th time saying that. Another HARDCORE, good game on the Wii. Way to kick off 2009.
lol at people saying wii is not hardcore.
i really wish the white handgun that came with the pre-order from Australia was available here though,that light gun is BA.
Im really excited for this game though because im a big lightgun fan and this is a nice reinvention of the HotD series.