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House of the Dead: Overkill | 
| From: Sega Of America, Inc.
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  130 reviews
Sales Rank: 1092
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 65020
Model: 65020
UPC: 010086650204
EAN: 0010086650204
ASIN: B001ET07O0
Publication Date: February 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Pulp funk horror Zombie cool at its finest as one of the most popular shooter classics returns injected with a whole new retro b-movie look. | | • | An utterly in-your-face zombie-dismembering blast Non-stop light-gun shooting action on the Wii as you blow apart zombies for high-score thrills. | | • | Gripping co-op action on the Wii Grab a friend and play the game as intended in your own buddy action movie as two of the coolest characters in video gaming. | | • | Use ¿Slow-Mofo Time¿ to make the perfect head-popping shot and ¿Evil Eye¿ to spot moments of opportunity that¿ll send the whole environment up in flames. | | • | Lightning quick Wii Remote reactions Get knee-deep in the dead with motion-sensitive Wii controls. Pump your shotgun, slam a fresh mag home in that 9-mil and work your lever-action rifle. |
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House of the Dead: Overkill Wii
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 130
 Awesome XXX Adult Gaming.... February 27, 2009
Hunter's Wife (Pennsylvania, USA)
31 out of 34 found this review helpful
This game is, to date, the best Wii game I've ever played. As a fan of the previous HOTD games, this is the best version for the following reasons:
- If you died in the previous II / III you had to start from the beginning, EVERY TIME. This version allows you to save after completing each chapter.
- Graphics are great. The 70s cinematic feel. Total 70s-ploitation. Anything cliche off these movies is in this game... gore, 'big guns' and vulgarity.
- Of which, the vulgarity is rampant in this game, which I love. I think the gaming industry is completely missing the aged-gamer. I want my games like I want my music and movies... unedited and uncensored. I am so sick of imported anime creatures and doe-eyed fetishes. How much longer can that genre last? aauh! The vulgarity is so overused that its hilarious, to the point it loses its effectiveness as obsenity.
- Game play. I like games where it doesn't take every button on the controller to move your character. A previous reviewer called it 'rail' play (or something), which enables you to spend more time killing off zombies.. and the creepy flipping clowns.
- Difficulty. Aside from the bosses, game difficulty seems easier than other shooter games.
- Co-play. Co-op mode is awesome. My husband and I grab a pitcher of margaritas, our guns and play together. No one has to control the character (Like in Call of Duty), and both people play off the same screen.
I have noticed a minute delay in the gun tracking during bits of game play, nothing that is critical, nor nothing that would cause me to change my rating. Don't confuse it with the slo-mo mode which you get when you shoot a specific icon on the screen.
A big kid game for a big kid gamer. I'm sure it won't take long for some parent to buy this for their tween and freak out. So, if you are considering it for your kid and you're cool with hyper-sexuality, extreme vulgarity and an excessive amount of gore and violence then buy it, if not, DON'T.
A Real Blast March 4, 2009
D. C. Blanton
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you were looking for a more adult oriented Wii game, you've certaintly come to the right place with House of the Dead: Overkill. The game has over the top violence with it's blood and gore effects, and defiantly goes over the top with the language.
First off, if you're easily offended by harsh language, then you may want to steer clear of this game. Literally, like every other word out of one of the character's mouth is F this or MFer that. I know a lot of people will find offense to the amount of F bombs dropped in this game, but for me personally, it didn't bother me. I felt it went right along with the theme of the game.
Graphics wise, it's a very good looking Wii game. The blood and gore effects are awesome, with body parts flying off and blood splattering all over the place. Especially if you use the shotgun. Unfortunetly, the game will constantly take a dip in the frame rate department to try and handle all the effects and graphics on screen. The frame rate drops don't really get in the way of the game, but it does happen enough to make things a wii bit annoying. In my time playing with the game, the frame rate only interfered with the gameplay, where the game would freeze up for a second and then I got hit by an enemy because of it, only once or twice.
The storyline is interesting and makes things really fun. You have Agent G and Isaac Washington hunting down a guy named Papa Ceaser who has somehow unleashed these "mutants" (they wont call them zombies for some reason). Agent G is trying to stop the mutant outbreak, while Isaac is looking for revenge because Papa Ceaser killed his father. They end up hooking up with a stripper (sorry, she never takes her clothes off but does provide plenty of cleavage for the cutscenes) named Varla Guns, whose also looking for revenge of the death of her brother.
I liked how the game's regular story mode doesn't really punish you all that bad for dying in game: if you die, you get to select to continue or not, and if you do, it just hacks your score in half. Which basically means that when playing the normal story mode, you'll be able to blast your way through every level and just have an all around good time shooting mutants, if that's all you want to do. So in that regard, I think the game can appeal to a more casual crowd.
But the game can also appeal to the hardcore crowd too, because once you beat the story mode, you unlock the Director's Cut mode, where it bumps up the difficulty, adds extra mutants, and you're given a limited amount of continues to use. You'll also see extra parts of the level that you didn't get to see in the regular story mode.
By beating the levels and beating your high score, you earn cash that you can spend on buying new weapons and then upgrading the weapons you do have. There's a pistol, a shotgun, an automatic shotgun, an SMG, and an assault riffle. You can upgrade the reload time, the clip size, the power of the weapon and other things like that to make the weapon more effective. Also, while playing the game, you can carry two weapons at a time, and can switch them on the fly while playing.
Basically, if you're looking for a good shooter that is defiantly geared more towards the adult crowd for the Wii, then you've come to the right place. Some people will be offended by all the F bombs, but to me, it just goes right along with the story and the type of game this is. Although the game suffers from some minor technical flaws with the frame rate drops, it's still a real blast to play.
Addictive, over-the-top fun! December 9, 2009
Maek (Phoenix, AZ United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Are you going to tell me what the (bleeping) G stands for?" - Detective Washington
"Nope." - Agent G
It's been said 100 times over on reviews, but I can't get over how fun this game is to play. Take your typical grind-house movie, throw in a House of the Dead vibe, and some tunes that Quentin T. wished he could have used on Pulp Fiction (here and there anyway!) and you've got the makings of a laugh-out loud funny game.
I was wondering how far the TV-MA rating would be taken. Rest assured, SEGA leaves no room for doubt...the profanity in the game (rumor has it that it made Guinness for the most profane game ever), the violence, and the somewhat near "was that what I think I saw" Janet Jackson moment definitely does NOT make this a game for the family. It's fun for me, though, when I would like to unwind after a hard day at work and want to do something else besides play Super Mario Galaxy with my 6-year old daughter.
The banter between the straight-up well-tailored G and the foul-mouthed Detective Washington (who sounds like a dead-on Samuel L. Jackson impersonator) is great. G has his foul moments as well which makes it even funnier. The scene with the ice cream truck cracked me up beyond belief where G and Washington are debating music choices.
Another fun moment is when Agent G and Washington find themselves on a little kiddie amusement park ride that moves around like Disney's Snow White through a haunted house...Washington blurts out )after G admits that he's a little scared to be on the ride), "Are you holding my hand?!?" "Yes." "Let go of me (string of expletives)."
The gameplay is great although the frame rate does take a hit here and there if you've got loads of zombies and rapid gunfire. That said, the simulated film scratches and pops actually add to the feel that you're watching a real 35mm movie that occasionally jumps, so it actually adds to the mouth-popping popcorn experience to the whole game. The environment is pretty well done and the variety of gore does take into account where you're hitting the zombies.
Who ever would have guessed that an on-rail shooter game would be this much fun?
An unexpected gem. November 5, 2009
Shawn De Cavia
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a game I had originally passed on when I saw it available in stores. I was familiar with the other games in the franchise(House of the Dead 1&2)and was never that impressed with the graphics or gameplay in either of those titles. I decided to take a chance on this one after reading a couple of good reviews and was pleasantly surprised. The in-game graphics are great,the campy grindhouse style story was very original and the 70's style music is actually pretty good. The game is more enjoyable after you unlock directors cut because you are given an opportunity to replay the story with more zombies and the levels are now more immersive(In regular mode you would explore a handful of rooms before a boss batttle but, in directors cut you are given a chance to explore every square inch of a level making it a brand new experience).Also, once you beat directors cut you unlock "Dual-wield" mode which allows you to use two zappers simultaneously so you can play John Woo style. One of the complaints that I heard about the game was that the frame-rate gets sluggish when there are too many characters on-screen but, honestly I never even noticed it.
I only have a few complaints. The boss battles tend to be pretty weak compared to the rest of the game and the profanity is a little excessive(I have no issues with profanity but,when you are swearing just because you can,it gets a little annoying). That being said, I would definitely buy any sequels to this game
Social Gametime January 19, 2010
Bobak (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It pretty much boils down to this. You're an adult, you want to have some fun, not play Pictionary or something like that. This is it. Gameplay is simplistic and straightforward, and this is not a challenging game like Contra III or Gears of War or anything like that. Still, it boils down to the fact that aiming a gun at things and shooting is a lot of fun. The B-movie plot totally rocks, and when the guys come over we play this pretty often. If you want something to spend a lot of time on--this isn't it--you pretty much get better weapons with time, and the game gets easier, so that's that. Still it's fun to get cash and buy new weapons and slaughter zombies.
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