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Overkill was not actually made in the 70’s, here is proof
BY Matthew Razak Jan. 28th, 2009 More on:

So you thought all that grainy footage and Grindhouse-style looks meant that SEGA’s new House of the Dead: Overkill was actually from 1975. Well that was just kind of dumb, cause videogames didn’t even exist back then, and the one’s that did didn’t look like this. In case you need more convincing though, we have documentary footage of the making of the game above and below. See, British people made it, and we all know that British people weren’t alive in 1975. It’s a scientific fact.

These British folk seem to be really into shooting zombies, and who can blame them, shooting zombies is possibly the second best thing on earth next to shooting zombie dogs. It’s nice to see so much attention going into what is basically a genre that was designed to make people pump more and more quarters into an arcade machine. Despite recent rumors that the game is not so good I’m holding out as everything I’ve seen so far has basically told me that this will be one of my favorite games of the year — even if it is simply because it’s so bad that it’s good.

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    1. Dom
      January 29th, 2009
      at 11:58 am

      Don’t listen to reviews about this game, especially not if it’s a 3/10 review from some mag from Sweden nobody ever heard of. A SEGA employee posted on a message board of a German mag that he read the translated article from Sweden. One of the main reasons for the low score seems to be that “they used more curse words in the first level than in any Tarantion movie” … n/c

      If you’re going to review lightgun games you’ll have to approach them like they are and not compare them to other games standards. Guess they just did it wrong.

      The review of said German mag is out now, they gave it a 80 % score. Conclusion: “bloody and entertaining, motivating and extensive - how a lightgun shooter should be.”

      Don’t worry, it’s a game that you’ll like, because you know you’ll like it!

      By the way, check out SEGAs flickr account, there is a high res version of the fake movie poster for the first level:
      http://flickr.com/photos/segaeurope/page2/

      There’s also a picture of an awesome “limited edition” t-shirt, I wonder where that’s coming from.

      Oh, and thanks for the vids, good to see you back!

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