The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut
The House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut deposits you in a retro, B movie-style world crawling with monstrous zombies hungry for your brain. Rediscover the nightmare with seven remastered levels and two…
The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut is an arcade developed by Headstrong Games, released 25 November 2011 on PlayStation 3.
What The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut is
The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut is an arcade game developed by Headstrong Games and released in 2011. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 1991, rookie AMS agent G and Detective Isaac Washington investigate disappearances and a mutant outbreak in Bayou City, Louisiana. They storm the mansion of Papa Caesar, a crime lord who killed Isaac's father. Caesar flees, while disabled scientist Jasper Guns, whom Caesar used, is mutated after injecting himself with an unknown substance. After defeating Jasper, G and Isaac meet his sister, stripper Varla Guns, who seeks revenge on Caesar.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, survival and thriller. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The House of the Dead series
The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut is the 19th of 36 entries we hold in the The House of the Dead series. It arrived 6 months after Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Arcade. The next entry was The House of the Dead: Nightmare in 2011. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is The House of the Dead: Overkill at 82.
How it was received
The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut launched on 25 November 2011, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Minecraft: Java Edition, Assassin's Creed Revelations and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Minecraft: Java Edition, Assassin's Creed Revelations, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
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