The much maligned Wii might actually have some games... ok, a game, for people that like me; those of us who don't need a fanciful trip to the huggy time sparkle princess kingdom to play tee-ball with no points and little plastic trophies for all those little motherfuckers, even the ones on the bench the whole game.



This is the tone of House of the Dead: Overkill which is (it is a delight to type the following words) a ton of fun. It is over the top and intentionally absurd. Take a console built with pointing shit at the screen in mind, and on it put a game built around pointing shit at the screen. Mechanically it is not without flaw: the very slight, inherent lag of the Wii pointer shows as it takes maybe a quarter of a second for the on-screen crosshair to reposition and since the Nyko Perfectshot has vanished from the goddamn face of the goddamn Earth it's my only option right now. You don't have to fire offscreen to reload, just shift the remote. Yay motion sensing.



The grindhouse trailer for the game struck me as publicity that ultimately wouldn't reflect on the game itself. It was clever and it was House of the Dead. Done, right? Oh no, every bit of it is exactly like the trailer. Not just the cutscenes, but every voice snippit for gameplay, the menus, everything including the manual is pick-something-sploitation. Terrible running jokes, harsh language and cliches.



Buy it. Go. Right now. I don't care where. Walmart is open 24 hours, you could get it there. There's apparently no nunchuck parts to this so you can not only drink and play the game, you can drink while playing the game. I've been doing this. Yeah, you can fire wildly into a pack of advancing zombi---”mutants” while tipping back a Jack and Coke.

-Awesome arcade experience
-Takes advantage of the console
-Great writing (holy shit, I'm not lying, the writing works with the new style)
-Great presentation
-Fun

Also, I hate you if you get the goddamn revolver frames. I also hate [edit: having to upload images at work]. I don't hate openoffice writer for checking my spelling though. Thanks OO.