You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
Every Friday
GamesRadar+
Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.
Every Thursday
GTA 6 O'clock
Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.
Every Friday
Knowledge
From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.
Every Thursday
The Setup
Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.
Every Wednesday
Switch 2 Spotlight
Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.
Every Saturday
The Watchlist
Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.
Once a month
SFX
Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!
On-rail shooters, for our money, should be dead. But like the brain-hungry, shuffling zombies of House of the Dead: Overkill! Sega have managed have raised them from their grave with this B-movie homage. The cheesy dialogue, OTT monsters and rampant curse words are a world apart from the previously soulless efforts, but with this new direction and balls-out humour, House of the Dead: Overkill! will be the best grindhouse game ever. Here’s why…
Swears
Puerile as it is, House of the Dead’s OTT use of the phrase that rhymes with ‘mother clucker’ is actually laugh out loud funny. It’s detective Washington – the stereotypical macho man – that provides 99% of the potty-mouthed tirades while his suave partner, Agent G keeps his F-bombs on ice for the majority of the action.
For once it feels like we’re playing a mature game on Nintendo’s family-centric console. Mario big fat face will be weeping big fat tears when he hears the blue language here.
Bad acting
In true B-movie style, the acting performances in HOTD: Overkill are stiffer than Pinocchio having a lap dance. Stilted dialogue between the evil and rather camp, Papa Caesar and the two heroes is as painful to watch as it is intentionally entertaining.
Couple this together with serious continuity errors (man gets glasses smashed from his face with a stick only to have them on in the next shot) and you’ve got the perfect combination to mimic the grindhouse flicks of yesteryear.
Giant monsters
No hammy film is complete without some hideous beast springing up unexpectedly and HOTD: Overkill delivers on this front and then some. From huge bug-eyed insects opening a train up with its giant claws to Sebastian and Nigel, the most horrific Siamese twins you’re likely to ever come across.
Sickest thing we’ve seen so far? A kind of Stephen Hawking style bloke called Jasper Guns, who after being whipped across the face by Papa Caesar levitates from his wheels and uses telekinesis to launch bloody body parts at you. Eugh.
