The House of the Dead: Overkill
Overkill is a rail shooter, with pre-determined character movement, while the shooting element under player control by pointing the Wii Remote at the screen, moving the aiming reticle. The player can point the…
The House of the Dead: Overkill is a shooter developed by Headstrong Games, released 10 February 2009 on Wii.
What The House of the Dead: Overkill is
The House of the Dead: Overkill is a shooter game developed by Headstrong Games and released in 2009. It was published by Sega. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Years ago during the Cold War, the U.S. military made a new superhuman formula called Formula X but the project for its use failed. The bunker for the experiments was shut down and abandoned. In 1991, seven years before The Curien Mansion Incident, AMS Special Agent G is given his first assignment and sent to a small town in Louisiana to investigate a series of disappearances and hunt down a deranged crime boss, Papa Caesar. Due to the presence of mutants, G is forced to team up with police detective Isaac Washington who is out to avenge his father's murder, which Caesar masterminded.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 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 is the 14th of 36 entries we hold in the The House of the Dead series. The next entry was Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing in 2010. Its critic score of 82 is 7 points above the series average of 75. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
The House of the Dead: Overkill holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The House of the Dead: Overkill launched on 10 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The House of the Dead: Overkill yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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