House of the Dead: Overkill - Out Now.

I prefer the wii remote, we have the zapper thing that came links crossbow training but not really clicked with it.

All finished with this now. Amazing fun all the way, went through the main game 3 times and the directors cut 4 times. Got addicted to collecting all the brains and racking up hi scores. Funniest game I've played in years the end scene was absoultly hilarious (even though the last boss was the one piece of the game that saw a drop in quality), it's the best game I've played so far this year and I can see my self playing it a few more time before the year is out.

MUTHAFUCKAS!

For some reason I have lost all motivation to play games over the last few weeks and aside from the odd five minutes on Burnout Paradise earlier this week I can't remember the last time I actually had a good gaming session. I'm going through one of those lean spells where nothing seems to impress me.

I did the first two levels of this (and mightily enjoyed it) before I went on this drought, but for some strange reason this afternoon, sat in my empty boring office at work, I have a sudden urge to get home as soon as possible and cram in a bit of time on this before the missus gets home.

Hopefully this will be the game to draw me back to my three little boxes of fun.

House of the Dead swears its way into record books
Officially the most motherf***ing profane game ever, apparently

House of the Dead: Overkill has hit the record books for being the most profane videogame in history, clocking in a massive 189 counts of the ever-useful f-word.

The on-motherf***ing-rails shooter, which we've been loving recently, managed to set that record in its "three hours of relatively limited dialogue", which equates to "just over one per minute and three percent of all words spoken in the game". Brilliant.

Jonathan Burroughs, writer of The House of the Dead: OVERKILL, said: "It is a dubious honour to receive such an accolade working in an industry where so often the fruits of your labours are derided and dismissed for being puerile or irresponsible, but in the case of The House of the Dead: Overkill a little puerility was the order of business.

"Parodying the profane excess of grindhouse cinema was Headstrong Games' objective and I am flattered that this record acknowledges that we not only rose to that challenge, but entirely exceeded it." His mother will be so proud.

It'll be shortlisted in the 2009 Gamer's Edition of the book, out later this motherf***ing year.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=210774

This is £30 at game WITH a Handcannon now

mummy strawberry floater.

Damn, I just tried hooking my Wii up to my monitor to have a blast of this, and I finally know why so many people were complaining about it being dark. I could barely see anything. I'll wait and see if the addition of some component cables can fix that up.

Garth wrote:
House of the Dead swears its way into record books
Officially the most motherf***ing profane game ever, apparently

House of the Dead: Overkill has hit the record books for being the most profane videogame in history, clocking in a massive 189 counts of the ever-useful f-word.

The on-motherf***ing-rails shooter, which we've been loving recently, managed to set that record in its "three hours of relatively limited dialogue", which equates to "just over one per minute and three percent of all words spoken in the game". Brilliant.

Jonathan Burroughs, writer of The House of the Dead: OVERKILL, said: "It is a dubious honour to receive such an accolade working in an industry where so often the fruits of your labours are derided and dismissed for being puerile or irresponsible, but in the case of The House of the Dead: Overkill a little puerility was the order of business.

"Parodying the profane excess of grindhouse cinema was Headstrong Games' objective and I am flattered that this record acknowledges that we not only rose to that challenge, but entirely exceeded it." His mother will be so proud.

It'll be shortlisted in the 2009 Gamer's Edition of the book, out later this motherf***ing year.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=210774

Killzone 2 am cry.

How can this have more swearing that Killzone 2!? The cut scenes are full of it and in-game the AI is constantly swearing when they're getting shot at.

I think it may be a ratio thing, three hours with 189 uses of the word.

I don't think A.I counts, as you could infinitely redo a level and get infinite strawberry floats.

Uk sales

THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2 & 3 RETURN
Weekly Ranking

Week 1= 15th
Week 2= 14th
Week 3= 22nd
Week 4= 30th
Week 5= not ranked

LTD sales 100k-200k as of last award

THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD OVERKILL
Weekly Ranking

Week 1= 10th (#3 Wii Chart)
Week 2= 9th (#3 Wii Chart)
Week 3= 16th (#3 Wii Chart)
Week 4= 24th (#5 Wii Chart)
Week 5= 20th (#4 Wii Chart)

It's hanging in there, but obviously chart positions can be misleading.

Hopefully it will pass the 100k barrier relatively soon.

Where's the cheapest place I can get this with the hand cannons? I think GAME were doing it with 1 for £30 but can't find that offer now. Anyone?

Has anyone had any problems of this freezing on them while they have been playing it?

Got it at Gamestation for £18 the other week, just got round to playing it and twice it has froze on me, once on the opening house bit and the second time, a further bit on in the sewer, its the only game to have froze on me while I've been playing the Wii so I swear it cant be that. I really wanna like it but the constant freezes are making it hard for me to like it

I've played this for hours, and hours, and then a few more hours and never has the game frozen up on me - sounds like it may be your specific disc - I'd return it if I were you and get another copy.

I seem to remember some people had problems playing it on their specific Wii consoles...

...not me though, game is fine here.

The 1 and 0n1y wrote:Has anyone had any problems of this freezing on them while they have been playing it?

Got it at Gamestation for £18 the other week, just got round to playing it and twice it has froze on me, once on the opening house bit and the second time, a further bit on in the sewer, its the only game to have froze on me while I've been playing the Wii so I swear it cant be that. I really wanna like it but the constant freezes are making it hard for me to like it

It seems that some older machines have shitty build quality (cheapest parts they could find, probably from old gamecubes) that prevents them from playing all the software properly, really they should exchange faulty machines but they are money grabbing bastards.

Rik wrote:
The 1 and 0n1y wrote:Has anyone had any problems of this freezing on them while they have been playing it?

Got it at Gamestation for £18 the other week, just got round to playing it and twice it has froze on me, once on the opening house bit and the second time, a further bit on in the sewer, its the only game to have froze on me while I've been playing the Wii so I swear it cant be that. I really wanna like it but the constant freezes are making it hard for me to like it

It seems that some older machines have shitty build quality (cheapest parts they could find, probably from old gamecubes) that prevents them from playing all the software properly, really they should exchange faulty machines but they are money grabbing ********.

Mine's a day one machine - no problems with HOTD though. Sometimes though in loading up it does seem to be struggling to kind of find the start of a game / disc - like its kind of in between files and can't find where to move to next.

Rog wrote:
Garth wrote:
House of the Dead swears its way into record books
Officially the most motherf***ing profane game ever, apparently

House of the Dead: Overkill has hit the record books for being the most profane videogame in history, clocking in a massive 189 counts of the ever-useful f-word.

The on-motherf***ing-rails shooter, which we've been loving recently, managed to set that record in its "three hours of relatively limited dialogue", which equates to "just over one per minute and three percent of all words spoken in the game". Brilliant.

Jonathan Burroughs, writer of The House of the Dead: OVERKILL, said: "It is a dubious honour to receive such an accolade working in an industry where so often the fruits of your labours are derided and dismissed for being puerile or irresponsible, but in the case of The House of the Dead: Overkill a little puerility was the order of business.

"Parodying the profane excess of grindhouse cinema was Headstrong Games' objective and I am flattered that this record acknowledges that we not only rose to that challenge, but entirely exceeded it." His mother will be so proud.

It'll be shortlisted in the 2009 Gamer's Edition of the book, out later this motherf***ing year.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=210774

Killzone 2 am cry.

How can this have more swearing that Killzone 2!? The cut scenes are full of it and in-game the AI is constantly swearing when they're getting shot at.

Yeah, but EDGE gave it a higher score as well.......

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