House Of The Dead: Overkill Review

Over the past year or so I have lost faith in the Nintendo Wii. I believe it’s a system for retards and old people. Nintendo forgot about its core gamer base by releasing crap gimmick games that anyone can use and stopped focusing on huge hits like Zelda, but this isn’t meant to be a Nintendo rant as I still have faith they will come around and make me happy once again. I am writing because I recently played a game on the Wii for the first time in a long time that I really enjoyed and would highly recommend, House Of The Dead: Overkill. It is made by Sega and is a simple “On Rail Zombie Shooter”, which means you just point your Wii Remote to the screen (or Wii Zapper if you have one) line up your circle curser and shoot zombies. The game moves from scene to scene for you so it really is as simple as point and clicking the B button.

The game features a story that I didn’t really care for and don’t think many people will really follow, but what makes you interested in watching the cut scenes is the dialog between the characters. They use so many comical one liners and use the word Fuck so many times that this game just got put in the Guinness Book Of World Records for using the word Fuck so many times. The ending of the game was just, well…. Disturbing.  I did laugh my ass off, but it was just wrong on so many levels.

The game only does last about 2-3 levels and is really not that hard. In fact after the first level you have the option to buy new guns which makes the game even easier. Once you do beat it, you unlock a Director’s Cut which makes each level a little long and puts more zombies in each level, no story changes though. All reviews say that Resident Evil 5 is the best zombie game right now to play with someone else Co-Op but I disagree, I believe this game is the best zombie Co-Op game out there right now. I had much more fun playing it with someone else then I did alone. It made the game easier, and was more enjoyable taking out zombies with someone else. The game is easy enough and the controls are simple enough that you could get your wife/girlfriend to join in and play the entire game with you.

I had more fun playing House Of The Dead: Overkill then I did playing Resident Evil 5 and that’s shocking cause House Of The Dead: Overkill seemed to have come out of nowhere. The game is very short, may be too easy for many gamers, the story sucks but the dialog and relationship between the main characters makes up for that. You should be able to con your wife/girlfriend into playing this game with you. So dust off your Wii and give this game a try and after seeing the ending you will think Norman Bates from the movie Psycho was a pretty normal guy.