The House Of The Dead: Overkill - Collector's Edition

I can't fault the game, it's really well made ~ bucket loads of blood and guts, plus it's really easy to pick-up and play. Exactly what I was expecting; just to pick up a wii zapper - and shoot zombies!

I'm not a hardcore gamer and only had a few hours on it; but it seems to be a game that I'll go back to again and again!

Only problem is the swearing. I'm a big fan of B-movies from the 70's & 80's ~ none I've seen have this amount of expletives! The odd F-word here and there I don't mind. ...but this game seems to use the F-word just for the sake of it (probably influenced by the unoriginal/self-indulgent Quentin Tarantino's take on the"Grindhouse" genre), and it gets to a point where the bad language is just irritating.

Which is a massive shame for me, because it'll be years before I can play the game with my little boy ~ purely because of the bad-language.

Overall ~ the game is great fun and very easy to play. Rated it four stars (would have been five… more »

I can't fault the game, it's really well made ~ bucket loads of blood and guts, plus it's really easy to pick-up and play. Exactly what I was expecting; just to pick up a wii zapper - and shoot zombies!

I'm not a hardcore gamer and only had a few hours on it; but it seems to be a game that I'll go back to again and again!

Only problem is the swearing. I'm a big fan of B-movies from the 70's & 80's ~ none I've seen have this amount of expletives! The odd F-word here and there I don't mind. ...but this game seems to use the F-word just for the sake of it (probably influenced by the unoriginal/self-indulgent Quentin Tarantino's take on the"Grindhouse" genre), and it gets to a point where the bad language is just irritating.

Which is a massive shame for me, because it'll be years before I can play the game with my little boy ~ purely because of the bad-language.

Overall ~ the game is great fun and very easy to play. Rated it four stars (would have been five without the overuse of the f-word).

Zombie games seem to be coming out thick and fast on pretty much every console lately, but what makes this game different? Well to start it diverges from the usual playing style of Resident Evil and doesn't take its story arc from a Romero setting. Instead it works from the Grindhouse genre with a generous nod to Planet Terror.

So what makes this game good then? To start this game is filled with your classic fast style arcade zombies and end of level big ass bosses. However if the initial setting isn't supplying enough monsters you can have extra from the beginning of a level by asking for them (for novices though I wouldn't). After the fact of hardened villians the levels are well thought out and the cut sequences that normally have you reaching for the start button, are actually fun to watch and tie the story together well. If that isn't enough the game has lots of extras to open, which is good for the completist in you.

Overall this is the first adult title that the… more »

Zombie games seem to be coming out thick and fast on pretty much every console lately, but what makes this game different? Well to start it diverges from the usual playing style of Resident Evil and doesn't take its story arc from a Romero setting. Instead it works from the Grindhouse genre with a generous nod to Planet Terror.

So what makes this game good then? To start this game is filled with your classic fast style arcade zombies and end of level big ass bosses. However if the initial setting isn't supplying enough monsters you can have extra from the beginning of a level by asking for them (for novices though I wouldn't). After the fact of hardened villians the levels are well thought out and the cut sequences that normally have you reaching for the start button, are actually fun to watch and tie the story together well. If that isn't enough the game has lots of extras to open, which is good for the completist in you.

Overall this is the first adult title that the Wii has gained which feels like its trying to be adult and not a vanilla version of another game. So if your looking for a good night in with friends, this game and blowing zombies heads off are good mix.