House of the Dead: Overkill has plenty in common with Sega’s other recent Wii release, Madworld, in that they’re both gleefully tasteless, a little insubstantial, and very clever in the way that they sidestep the Wii’s graphical limitations.
In House of the Dead: Overkill, you’re playing a grindhouse homage dressed up as a arcade-style light-gun game, complete with film grain, projector flicker and muddy colours. You move around on rails as a succession of targets present themselves in front of your crosshairs, and you mow them down with blood-soaked abandon whilst your in-game colleague keeps up a foul-mouthed commentary on your actions. And that’s pretty much it.
There’s no deep or clever gameplay to be found here. In its place you get the option to play an extended cut, a two-gun mode, a two player mode or a selection of four player mini-games, all of which add enough depth to compensate for the main game’s comparatively short and simple presentation.
It's perhaps a little too easy, as the points rack up swiftly enough for you to buy pretty much any weapon you want after just a level or two, and there are times when you wish that Overkill would develop a personality of it's own rather than tiresomely aping Planet Terror, but the frantic action, shot strings and the fun factor of playing alongside your mates more than compensates for these shotcomings.
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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
