House of the Dead: Overkill is a FPS where you control a special agent sent to a small town to investigate a series of disappearances when something goes wrong. Zombies. The House of the Dead franchise started out with House of the Dead, released as an arcade game back in 1996. It has spawned a number of console and arcade games plus two motion pictures: House of the Dead and House of the Dead 2.
House of the Dead Overkill will feature the same FPS rail shooting elements that the franchise has been using since the beginning. However, this will be the first game in the franchise's history to be released only for the home console instead of the arcades. It will be released on February 20 this year exclusively on the Wii.
What can I say. I know I've hit this point a couple times before, but stop making the same game over and over and over again! Some of the games I've criticized have been releasing the same game with a new package, but most, if not all, are successful franchises and have actual fanbases. The House of the Dead was a great game for the arcade back in '96, but that's where it ends. The other games were the same game but they just put a 2 or 3 at the end of the title and hoped to fool the general public. The movies were garbage too, so I have no idea why SEGA, who is publishing the game, would release a dead franchise, and a ZOMBIE game no less, at all let alone in the same year as the highly anticipated Resident Evil 5.
My guess is The House of the Dead: Overkill will not even sell enough copies to make up for the severe lack of idealism down at Headstrong Games, and will ultimately cause Kuju Entertainment to close down the establishment (Headstrong Games is but one of 8 different studios they have) for good. I guess in conclusion, the chances of me actually purchasing this steaming lump of dog fecal matter are about as good as my left pinky toe lifting a semi all by itself while I simultaneously write a letter to SEGA asking them why can't they just quit milking a dead franchise and just go back to putting their great Genesis games on the Xbox Live Arcade.
The House of the Dead: Overkill 
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