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The House of the Dead: Overkill

Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
edited October 2008 in General Chat
I meant to post this a while ago when the game was announced but it kept slipping my mind.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/899/899925p1.html
I'm really excited about this game, as I am a fan of both light-gun games and campy horror.The only thing I thought was kinda strange that the developer is actually trying to make the game scary.If you've played the first 3 HotDs, especially HotD 2, you know that that's never really been what the franchise was aiming for.All in all, I'll be glad to see what the game looks like when it's released, and thought I'd share this with you guys.

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  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited September 2008
    I'll probably rent it. Light gun games make good party games.
  • BreakmanBreakman
    edited September 2008
    I always loved the House of the Dead series. It's one of the first games I look for in an arcade.

    But, I think I'll be sitting this one out though. I love blood, gore, and all that good stuff, but not the "grindhouse"/splatter genre. Too bad...
  • Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
    edited September 2008
    Breakman wrote: »
    I always loved the House of the Dead series. It's one of the first games I look for in an arcade.

    But, I think I'll be sitting this one out though. I love blood, gore, and all that good stuff, but not the "grindhouse"/splatter genre. Too bad...

    I agree, but I probably won't be able to pass up seeing that at Babbage's and not getting it.I'm not one of those people who has to buy games as soon as they come out, so I'll probably wait until I can buy it used for like 15 dollars.(By the way, has anyone seen any HotD game besides the first one in an arcade?)
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited September 2008
    Dr. Zoidberg wrote: »
    (By the way, has anyone seen any HotD game besides the first one in an arcade?)

    I've seen the first 3 games in arcades. The original is everywhere, and there's a sit-down cabinet of HoTD2 in a mall near here. (Awesome!) The third one I've seen only once, at an arcade in Baltimore. But I've never seen HoTD4 anywhere. :(

    I'd give all of those up for a Carnevil machine around here, though. Hard as hell to find that one.
  • Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
    edited September 2008
    ShaggE wrote: »
    I'd give all of those up for a Carnevil machine around here, though. Hard as hell to find that one.

    Really?It's everywhere down here!And I've never seen a HotD 2 cabinet anywhere!It's an injustice I say!!!At least I still have it on the Wii.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited September 2008
    Have your arcades call my arcades and set up a trade: HotD2 for Carnevil. :p
  • Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
    edited September 2008
    ShaggE wrote: »
    Have your arcades call my arcades and set up a trade: HotD2 for Carnevil. :p

    Actually, where I live we could use some actual arcades!We have a Tilt at the mall, but even that's given way to ticket games like Ski-Ball and those weird Basketball-shooting thingamajiggiejaggers.It only has a few actual arcade cabinets, and even less of them are actually worth playing!
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited September 2008
    We have only two arcades here, and neither are that great, so you aren't missing much.

    Outside of a few showpiece cabinets (DDR, the HotD2 sit-down), both of them are filled with the usual: Police Trainer, Soul Calibur, Area 51, ticket games a-plenty, an assortment of Street Fighter spin-offs, a few shoddy light gun games that are half-broken, etc.

    The age of arcades is over, sadly. Especially now that MAME is becoming so stable and all-encompassing.
  • Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
    edited September 2008
    The games worth mentioning at the arcade in my town are Time Crisis 2(good game, not as good as the third), HotD 1, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Street Fighter Turbo, 1942, and good old Galaga.Other than that it's ticket games and crappy rail shooters that use gimmicky light guns (a giant machine gun that you have to mount on your shoulder and is as heavy as an anvil?Seriously?) to substitute for good gameplay.At other places it is literally nothing but ticket games and maybe a stupid hunting game.You're right.Arcades are totally dead.:(

    P.S. Most of these games I mentioned are broken down and likely to never be fixed.
  • Dr. ZoidbergDr. Zoidberg
    edited October 2008
    Sorry to double post, but I checked out my arcade and we now have Guilty Gear, Mega Man, two Street Fighter 2 variations, and, you guessed it, HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2!!!!!!!!!!(but it's really not so great because I own House of the Dead 2 and they got rid of their House of the Dead 1 cabinet,but at least there's always every other arcade on the planet...)
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