The House of the Dead: Overkill Comments by Oli Welsh
They came for brains. You'll give them bullets.
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An on rails shooter for the Wii gets 8/10 and a glowing review, despite not sounding any different to any other on-rails shooter ever... What's going on here then?
Oh look the site is surrounded by a giant The House Of The Dead: Overkill advert. Oh indeed. Sorry but this makes that article about editorial vs advertisement last week a bit harder to swallow. EDIT: "Still not sure that Overkill represents good value? Then..." Oh come on! Really?!
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insincere_dave
05/02/09 @ 16:47
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Some advice for LazyDan...
1) Actually read the review 2) If you have then read it again properly 3) If you still don't get it, you're genuinely an idiot |
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Cracking review, the mainstream press have been going mad for this so I was pretty sold anyhow, love a good shooter. Can't see why an on-rails shooter can't deserve an 8 or more, good quality high score games are getting pretty rare these days but the Wii is building up quite a nice little collection (ironic, as the so-called hardcore bemoan the lack of "traditional" games on the Wii)
The rather excellent "Perfect Shot" comes highly recommended from me if anyone is thinking about getting this, the best light gun attachment for the Wii by a country mile, cracking bit of kit. offering meaningless memorabilia unlocks instead of gamerpoints, but still Because gamerpoints have meaning?!
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I've taken your advice on board and promptly thrown it back off board.
The whole thing is written like a sycophantic review for a big name 1st party platform exclusive from that platform's official magazine. Flaws are kind-of mentioned but then just dismissed in an 'oh well' fashion. "and the tiny buzz of rumble that tells you you've targeted an enemy or pickup - an excellent innovation" yeah nothing like that already exists... Oh wait the Wii menu that you see every time you turn the Wii on does that. "the only serious omission for a score-attack game is of course online leaderboards, but that's hardly Headstrong's fault." What? We're just supposed to accept that? It's hardly Headstrong's fault because, well, it isn't. How is it not? They're the developers aren't they? What a load of toss. |
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"Headstrong has surprisingly decided to make the Story Mode a pushover. It's fairly forgiving, with infinite continues - but every continue costs you half your score. Score earns cash, which buys new guns and upgrades for the game's small but thunderous arsenal, which will take a couple of playthroughs to complete. Buying continues with points is a great piece of design,"
Infinite continues but you lose points which you need to unlock stuff. Hm, is it really that clever? Not being done before, at all? A few times, actually? Somewhere where you get infinite lives but every time you die you lose 'studs' which you need to unlock stuff. A game series that through making it easy to finish but compelling to complete also managed to cross the hard/casual divide. |
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@ LazyDan
Thanks for the heads up on the 'thrown for money' review (just come out and say it if you're going to), I will bare it in mind when I'm having an absolute blast on this next week. The Wii is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't around here, I'm not entirely sure why the usual bunch of haters feel the need to jump on all the negative reviews and claim the Wii has no good games...then also kick off in the good reviews.
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Does anyone know if the Nyko Perfect Shot is a good wii gun holster thingummy? The Venom one they recommended in this review is hideous, and I was looking at the official House Of The Dead handcannon until they said it wasn't any good. Does anyone have any other recommendations? I want ones that are proper handguns though, not these crappy sort of SMG-looking things that are crap to hold. Crossbow Training was rubbish with that so-called 'Zapper'!
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kinky_mong
05/02/09 @ 17:08
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Some advice for LazyDan...
1) Actually read the review 2) If you have then read it again properly 3) If you still don't get it, you're genuinely an idiot 4) Read the Rise of the Argonauts review. 3 out of 10 and that was surrounded by adverts for the same game. |
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CountFapula
05/02/09 @ 17:34
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Finally, a reason to use my wii again.
Lazy Dan, please shut the fuck up. I doubt anyone here cares what you have to say. |
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MoGamer2006
05/02/09 @ 17:43
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Game ordered, Perfect Shot ordered... now I'm going to sit back and relax, a lull before the killing starts!
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"An on rails shooter for the Wii gets 8/10 and a glowing review, despite not sounding any different to any other on-rails shooter ever... What's going on here then? "
Well a first person shooter for the 360 (halo3) got 10/10 and a glowing review, despite not sounding any different to any other first person shooter ever.. What's going on here then? Oh look when it was reviewed the site is surrounded by a giant Halo 3 advert. Oh indeed. Sorry but this makes that article about editorial vs advertisement last week a bit harder to swallow. (EDIT: Replace with "killzone 2" and "9/10" if you bat for the other team)
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If I can get a peripheral (preferably the hand cannon, just for aesthetic value) then I'll be even more happy to get a copy of this. It seems to offer great value, with good style and character, and it's a lightgun game on just the right machine. Great. I can see this gnawing up hours of play time.
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superjag86
05/02/09 @ 20:38
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First decent Wii game!
edit: for a while...
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