House of the Frak...err Dead has a Lot of Swear Words

Nicholas "bapenguin" Puleo March 16th, 2009 at 9:24 AM    


 

If you are looking for a great co-op game to play on the Wii with your 6 year old daughter;  well you might want to skip out on House of the Dead: Overkill.  You see, the game has set a world record in the Guinness Book of World Records 2009 Gamers Edition for most swearing in a video game...ever.

How much swearing is the most ever?  How about 189 instances of the dreaded F bomb.  To get an idea of how many friggin f-bombs that is; if you factor in the game's three hour length you'd get a rate of an F word a minute.  And that's not even including all the other "fun" words out there.

So how did the game's writer feel to receive such an honor?  Jonathan Burroughs, writer of The House of the Dead: Overkill, stated:
 

“It is a dubious honour to receive such an accolade working in an industry where so often the fruits of your labours are derided and dismissed for being puerile or irresponsible, but in the case of The House of the Dead: OVERKILL a little puerility was the order of business. Parodying the profane excess of grindhouse cinema was Headstrong Games’ objective and I am flattered that this record acknowledges that we not only rose to that challenge, but entirely exceeded it.”

A few swear words didn't hurt our thoughts on this mature cooperative experience.



 Tags: house of the dead wii


    N4G : News for Gamers  GamerBlips: vote it up! Share

 



4 Total Reader Comments

hedgehogaj at 04:51 AM on 3.16.2009
Wow. I think that even rivals Boondock Saints.
 
ShadokatRegn at 06:03 AM on 3.16.2009
I think there were even instances where there was a chain of F-bombs, like they were trying to build up a multiplier.
 
roland at 06:58 AM on 3.16.2009
Does this count as a life Achievement unlocked?
 
blakepro at 08:13 AM on 3.16.2009
Thanks for the warning. I will never play this game now.

My wife would be pretty upset with this. plus, I dont care for it either.

I really appreciate when games give me the option to remove or tone down that stuff. Call of Duty: World at War has the option to basically remove most/all the swear words and to tone down the gore and I really appreciated that feature. I wish more games would allow the user to choose what they get exposed to in the game.
 


  Login to Co-Optimus to comment.

Comment

ADVERTISEMENT

Related Games

House of the Dead: Overkill

Platform: Wii
2-Player Local Co-Op

I'm gonna go with this, one of the funniest and possible best video game commercials ever.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUJrKG
I shall make the effort to be so.
today's free Openfeint game "A Christmas Santa Flight" which you play round by round launching santa from a rocket powered sled
Re: 360 questions 2/09 10:57 am
1. swap hard drives (put his on your xbox)2. turn it on, copy his profile and whatever game saves he wants to a memory card3. tu
I don't know if I can be pissed off about Fable games anymore, 1 and 2 were fun but disappointed to a point where I'm not even g

912 Co-Op Games
5041 Members
981 Reviews
9315 Ratings
Detailed Stats

 RSS Feed

 News Only Feed

 

Puleo Web Enterprises © 2010


Powered by LiquidWeb