Good news, gore whores! In keeping with its promise to deliver the "hardcore you've been waiting for" on the Wii, The House of the Dead: Overkill is hoping to be as gory as possible. Developer Headstrong is prepared to disregard the censors and deliver something truly splat-tacular on the Wii.
"We're not brutalizing any minorities. It's good fun, tongue in cheek - nothing you wouldn't see in a movie," explains producer Neil McEwen. "We've really not restrained ourselves in any way. We want to go all guns blazing and make it as extreme as possible almost.
"Sometimes we've gone 'ooh, we shouldn't really do that', but then we've gone 'no, hell yes we should'. There's no reason we shouldn't do this stuff, it's not exploiting anyone."
McEwen also addressed the ridiculous outrage over Sega's other gory Wii game, MadWorld, applying the "controversy" to his game: "I think it's just a story for the tabloids. Nothing we're doing in our game hasn't been done in a movie before. It's undoubtedly an 18 certificate game. We've put censorship badges and warnings all over it. It's not the sort of game I'd give to my Gran."
Lord knows we need more titles on the Wii that aren't for our Grans.
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