Tag Archives: The House of the Dead: Overkill

The Lost Reels is a remixed port of the original 2009 House of the Dead shooter and is set for release on iOS tonight. Broken into three “movies” or parts, the initial download offers the first movie, Papa’s Palace of Pain, and on playthrough will unlock the second movie, Ballistic Trauma. Naked Terror, the third part, must be purchased though. Each movie is made up of four levels and a boss battle.
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We’ve gotten our hands on a new blood-stained trailer for The House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut, and this one’s set in a hospital. Not really sure what else needs to be said really.

If you’re of a squeamish disposition, maybe give this one a miss, otherwise – get your gore on!

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The Australian Classification Board has determined that The House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut is unsuitable for local retail.

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Sega’s announced that House of the Dead: Overkill: Extended Cut will get two exclusive levels when it releases on PS3 later this year. The first of these levels is called Naked Terror, and sees you play as Varla and Candy – previously NPC characters in the Wii version – as you fend off stripper and biker mutants. The second level will be announced in more detail soon. There’s more info at the EU PS Blog.

House of the Dead: Overkill: Extended Cut will get a release on PS3 on October 28.

Sega’s released a new trailer for House of the Dead: Overkill: Extended Edition, the PS3, Move-enabled version of the Wii shooter that came out donkeys back. If you like shooting things, lots of swearing and bad puns, it’s your lucky day. Get it after the break. It’s out in October.

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SEGA’s David Bruno has posted over on the PS Blog a list of features to expect when The House Of The Dead: OVERKILL Extended Cut is released on PS3.

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SEGA has announced that The House of the Dead: Overkill – Extended Cut 3D is coming to PS3 with Move and 3D support.

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SEGA has revealed its TGS line-up, and unfortunately it does not distinguish which games are playable and which are not.

We will send ‘em a mail and ask.

At any rate, here is the line-up:

• Puyo Puyo 7 (DS, PSP, Wii)
• The House of the Dead Overkill (Wii)
• Kyokugen Dasshutsu (DS)
• Bayonetta (PS3/X360)
• Chin Sports (Wii)
• Resonance of Fate (PS3/Xbox 360)
• Let’s Make a Pro Soccer Club! 6 Pride of J (PSP)
• Coropata (DS)
• Phantasy Star Portable 2 (PSP)
• End of Eternity (PS3/X360)
• MADWORLD (Wii)
• Up (Wii)
• Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP)
• Yakuza 4 (PS3)
• Tomoyo After ~It’s a Wonderful Life~ CS (Xbox 360)
• Poupée Girls DS (DS)
• Umihara Kawase (DS)
• Super Monkey Ball Athletic (Wii)
• J LEAGE Make a Pro Soccer Club! 6 Pride of J (PSP)
• Ryu Ga Gotoku 4 (PS3)
• LUNAR -HARMONY of SILVER STAR- (PSP)
• Little Busters! Converted Edition (PS2)

According to Andriasang, Yakuza 4 is not on the “official”  list but was listed in materials handed out to the press, therefore that’s why you see it listed.

According to this Edge report, Sega sold through 45,000 copies of House of the Dead: Overkill in the US last month.

The game launched February 10.

NPD analyst Anita Frazier said it had placed about 50th in the US chart for February.

The new will be encouraging for Sega, especially as Wii-core brother MadWorld appears to be flopping pretty hard: the Platinum game charted at an eye-watering 34 in the UK last week.

Guinness has claimed House of the Dead: Overkill contains the most uses of the word “fuck” in a game.

The Wii shooter uses it 189 times, “which equates to just over one per minute and three percent of all words spoken in the game,” according to a press release this morning.

“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,” said script-writer Jonathan Burroughs.

Full thing after the link.

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House of the Dead: Overkill producer Neil McEwen has told Cubed3 that Headstrong Games would “love to do Virtua Cop or another light gun game for Sega.”

Please make this so. We’d buy it. There’s no other detail at all, so all we have is hope.

Thanks, Joystiq.

that Sega has now officially confirmed that The House of the Dead: Overkill will release on Nintendo Wii next year and MCV has a few details of the game.

“The series is getting a new retro look, with distinctive graphics, sound and attitude that will add to its horror cool status,” said Sega.

“Plus, thanks to the Wii Remote, players will fight off zombies when they get too close; pistol-whipping jaws off and smashing in skulls with their shotgun butt.”

Also, IGN has publish the first few screenshots of the game which look very shooty-shooty zombie-zombie. All good.

More through the links.

By Mike Bowden