House of the Dead Overkill

What a horrible game. The House of the Dead was at one point a leading arcade game in the early 90’s. It sparked a revolution in arcade games and first person shooters. Now, in 2009 The House of the Dead has… well… Overkilled its self. Sega couldn’t cut a new system after the Genesis, so publishing it to Nintendo it was.

The Wii is great for little kids right? Not with this game. This game has some of the most graphic violence and language out on the market right now. If you bought a Wii for your children make sure they steer clear of this game. Blood oozes and squirts out of bodies. You can’t go 30 seconds without hearing a foul word or derogatory vocabulary.

The game play is very slow and lagging. Due to the lack of processing power built into the Wii, action addicts will be severely disappointed in playing this game. Once the big action gets going and you are shooting tons of enemies, as the chaos fills your screen icons and sprites start to disappear at random. The Wii cannot keep up with the game and the screen jumps around a bit. To give the Wii credit, it is not *that* bad of a freeze, but this doesn’t discount there is noticeable lag.

So shoot the bad guys – if you can! Using the Wiimote can only go so far before your hand starts to cramp up and carpel tunnel syndrome sets in. The House of the Dead Overkill is another bad game, for a bad gaming console.