House of the Dead: Overkill

I've always had a real love/hate relationship with the House of the Dead series. Overall, I enjoy them, it's a rail shooter with zombies, what's not to love? The styling is good, graphics are good, and the controls and weapons are straight forward.

The only problem I have is that this: Like every other Japanese originated rail shooter, has been dubbed into English with the worst voice actors on the planet. I'm always blown away when playing Time Crisis or Ghost Squad at just how terrible a voice actor can actually be. To top it off, the stories are never really all that solid, and they usually aren't translated well. None of this matters that much, because you just tune the whole thing out and skip your way through to the shooting.

Why do I mention this? Well, Jim sent me this link. Actually, he sent me two links, but the wired link had almost no information, so we'll pretend it was just this one. Admittedly, I had seen something about this in one of my various feeds, but because it's House of the Dead, and I figure I'll usually just stumble across the machine at a Dave and Buster's or something, I didn't pay attention.

I hadn't noticed the 'Wii'. Apparently, this is a Wii title. It's supposed to be styled in the classic 70's Grindhouse motif. From the trailer, it looks interesting.



It still looks like House of the Dead, though. I imagine, for all the awesome new effects the grainy film look will have, it will still just suck for story. Honestly, I can't go to a House of the Dead game for the story, there's none worth noting.

Now, it's being developed by Headstrong for Sega, which I believe is a departure from previous titles, though I might be wrong. However, if this is a new developer, and because it's being done in the style of a really shitty movie, perhaps this will work out. That is to say, where the other House of the Dead games were just lame in their story, this game might have a story that is supposed to be lame, and therefore, it might be not so lame.

Anyway, I think I should be congratulated on making it through this entire post without mentioning the Uwe Boll abortion that was House of the Dead. Honestly, everything that man as ever done has been pure shit, but House of the Dead remains at the top of my list of 'worst movies of all time'. Although though I have to admit that I was blown away at how terrible his Dungeon Siege movie was, considering he actually had some talent of note, and somehow, in his movie, they just couldn't act. Finally, I wonder why it is I've so many of his shitty movies. You'd think I would have just stopped watching. (In my defense, about half of them I didn't realize he'd directed until about 55 seconds into the first shitty scene). Truly, though, we have a man that needs to be stopped. Just don't give him any more money!

Ok, perhaps congratulations are not in order.