Everything You Should Know About The House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut

Everything You Should Know About The House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut This is the arcade-style shooter you’ve been waiting for! Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we’ll be exploring everything you should know about “House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut.” Originally released for the Nintendo Wii back in 2009, Sega and Headstrong Games have decided to bring the incredibly loved outing to the PlayStation 3 crowd. Despite the obvious repackaging, Extended Cut offers various upgrades and incentives for players both new and old. This includes a larger game with high def visuals and move support for a true arcade shooting experience. The fifth game in the House of the Dead series, Overkill is a prequel to the original arcade game and the first in the series to be released exclusively for the home consoles. Taking place in 1991, its plot is centered on AMS special agent G who is on his first assignment in Bayou City, a small town located in Louisiana. There, he must investigate a series of disappearances, all while hunting down a deranged crime lord called Papa Caesar. However, things quickly get out of hand when G teams-up with detective Isaac Washington in order to take on a never-ending supply of zombies, referred to as mutants. At the same time the jive talking Washington pushes toward avenging his father’s death and soon enough, the duo meets a stripper named Varla Guns. Like Washington, she is out for Papa’s blood over the mutation and death of her brother, a scientist who worked for the criminal mastermind. As an on rails experience, much of the cinematic flare of the game comes from its Tarantino inspired narrative, style and dialogue. That being said, this shooter easily backs up its pedigree with its focus on gruesome man on mutant violence. Bringing back all 9 levels, which range from a train to a carnival, Sega has added 2 more to fill in the gaps in the story. These include “The Naked Terror”, which has our heroes traverse a bar and strip club, and “The Creeping Flesh, a journey through a slaughterhouse. The latter of which ditches our main heroes in favor of telling its own mini-story involving Varla Guns and her stripper friend Candy. Starting off with a basic magnum handgun, Overkill rewards players with cash for kills to buy new weapons and upgrades. These firearms include the shotgun, sub-machine gun, automatic shotgun and the assault rifle. In addition, completionists will be able to unlock the hand cannon and mini-gun after completing their first run-through of the story chapters and its Director’s Cut mode. Of course, Overkill once again features a slew of upgrade options, which include increasing the power, recoil, reload and clip capacity of a particular weapon. Moreover, the game features a hardcore difficulty mode, which requires headshots in order to down enemies. As if this weren’t enough, players can take on the Extra mutants mode, which increases the amount of enemies on screen at any one time. This results in a higher intensity of violence, furiously spewing blood chucks all over your television screen. Packed with all the bro-mance and f-bombs fans have come to love and expect, The House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut is available exclusively for the PlayStation 3. As if that weren’t enough, it ups the chills and the kills, along with Stereoscopic and retro red/blue 3D support.