The House of the Dead : Overkill - Extended Cut

HOTD: Overkill Extended Cut Review

The lightgun shooter genre has, let's be honest, stagnated a little. The glory days of Virtua Cop and Time Crisis seemed gone for good, leaving us with half-decent Wii/PlayStation Move games. What we didn't see coming in 2009 was Headstrong and SEGA's superb B-movie take on the long-running House of the Dead series. Now ported over to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Move, this bloody, gory, crude, profanity-filled lightgun shooter will hopefully find a bigger audience. House of the Dead games have always been badly acted and somewhat ridiculous, but Overkill makes the most of this quite brilliantly.There's nothing overly complex about the game. Agent G, a slick rookie agent, and Isaac Washington, a completely stereotypical f-bomb dropping, macho American, turn up at a mansion and from then on you're blasting zombies through nine insane levels - presented as short-run movies in the style of the Grindhouse double feature from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Take one moment of Overkill seriously and you'd be completely missing the point. The plot and events that take place in Overkill beggar belief, with a final moment that had a few of us in the office looking agog at the screen, equally in shock and horror.