History VideoGame / TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill

* TheBigEasy: The setting is around a {{theme park version}} of New Orleans called "Bayou City" (Varla muddies the issue by mentioning the "county" she's in, but that's exactly the kind of mistake a real grindhouse B-movie would make[[labelnote:*]]The state of Louisiana has parishes, not counties.[[/labelnote]]).

The plot of the game follows Agent G and [[TheyFightCrime reluctant partner]] Detective Isaac Washington. They're hunting down the deranged crime lord/pimp, Papa Caesar, fighting through the waves and waves of [[NotUsingTheZedWord mutants]] he's unleashed. While they're tracking down Caesar, he causes the death of Varla Guns' brother, leading the hottest stripper on the Bayou City club scene to track down Caesar herself to take her revenge. She'll have to get in line though; as Washington wants to get revenge for the death of this father, also caused by Caesar.

* TheBigEasy: The setting is very strongly implied to be in and around a {{theme park version}} of New Orleans, but it's never explicitly stated (Varla muddies the issue by mentioning the "county" they're in, but that's exactly the kind of mistake a real grindhouse B-movie would make[[labelnote:*]]The state of Louisiana has parishes, not counties.[[/labelnote]]).

** Played straight at the start of ''Scream Train'' when all three protagonists have Caesar right where they want him, but their arguing over who gets to kill/arrest him allows him to get away. It goes on for minutes, before any of them notices. Issac does manage to nick his arm though.

* BlaxploitationParody: Isaac Washington is basically a straight sendup of the average blaxploitation hero, who uses "motherfucker" like most of us would use a comma.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Varla tries to go on one... but miserably fails. Twice.

** ''Overkill'' goes a step further: one of the post-game bonuses is a "Dual Wield" option, wherein a single player plays, using two guns as normal, but instead of switching between the two [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin using both at the same time]]. This includes [[FiringOneHanded shotguns, assault rifles]], and even [[UpToEleven miniguns]].

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: has Bitch [easy], Agent [normal], and Motherfucker [hard].

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Warden Darling, for Papa Caesar in Overkill.]]

** So many of the phrases in ''The Typing of the Dead: Overkill'' are references. For instance, you might have to type [[VideoGame/ZeroWing "Main screen turn on" and "Make your time"]], or come across a pair of zombies with [[Series/FatherTed "Careful now" and "Down with this"]], or [[TheTwoRonnies "Fork Handles" and "Four Candles"]]..

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Takes place in ''1991'' and was released in ''2009''
* [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See in Her?]]: What Varla asks herself this about her deceased brother Jasper and Candi. Then [[{{Squick}} Candi starts to explain]], and [[TooMuchInformation Varla tells her to shut up]].
* TheUnfought: Papa Ceaser and the Warden by the end of the game.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Or, in this case, Varla Guns Has Her Brain Replaced With an Old Woman's and Her Body Mutated into a Horrible Monstrosity. [[spoiler: Ironically, this traditional "{{Tomboy}} of the TomboyAndGirlyGirl pair dies" part of the trope is inverted in Varla's exclusive chapters of the PS3 version of ''Overkill'', where GirlyGirl Candi [[AnArmAndALeg gets her arm cut off]] by Meat Katie's blade, and bleeds to death. Considering this is set just before Varla's devolvement to FauxActionGirl, this raises the implication that she underwent a HeroicBSOD, and couldn't get out of it for the rest of the game.]]

** One of the ranks for making consecutive kills without missing is "[[Film/AClockworkOrange Ultra-Violence]]".

* HongKongDub: Available in several cutscenes, but especially noticeable [[http://youtu.be/g7rGHnwD-R0?t=8m48s in this one]].

---->'''G:''' "Care to dial down the swearing, Wash?"\\
'''Isaac:''' "Fuck that, motherfucker!"

--->'''G''': (Sees an explosion in the distance) This is bad.\\

--> '''G:''' Tasteful ride.\\

-->'''Narrator''':" '''GGGOOOOREEGAAAAASMM!!"
** EVERYBODY, with the possible exception of G.
*** But then, keeping in line with the "B-Movie" presentation of Overkill, the joke is that he's a poor 'actor'.

--> '''Caesar:''' As you well know, Isaac, I enjoy pain. It's like a [[TrademarkFavoriteFood good Chinese dinner]], you know, with the sweet and the sour. Expanding on that analogy, I will smile with delight ([[CaptainObvious that's the sweet]]) as you ''scream for your fucking life'' ([[CaptainObvious of course, that's the sour]]). ''*hits the BigRedButton*'' [[StealthPun Ci]][[BilingualBonus ao]]!

---->'''Caesar:''' You know of Clement Darling, yes, the cretin prison warden? It was he who originally discovered the mutant compound in a secret lab beneath his prison. Clement's ambitions are small minded, Isaac. But he has '''friends''', powerful friends. [[spoiler:(Curien and Goldman, if you haven't guessed it yet.)]]

* [[spoiler: TheUnfought]]: Papa Ceaser and the Warden by the end of the game.
* [[spoiler:[[VasquezAlwaysDies Varla Guns Has Her Brain Replaced With an Old Woman's and Her Body Mutated into a Horrible Monstrosity]]]]
** [[spoiler: Ironically, this traditional "{{Tomboy}} of the TomboyAndGirlyGirl pair dies" part of the trope is inverted in Varla's exclusive chapters of the PS3 version of ''Overkill'', where GirlyGirl Candi [[AnArmAndALeg gets her arm cut off]] by Meat Katie's blade, and bleeds to death. Considering this is set just before Varla's devolvement to FauxActionGirl, this raises the implication that she underwent a HeroicBSOD, and couldn't get out of it for the rest of the game.]]

House of the Dead: Overkill, is a prequel to the original ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' series. It takes the unintentionally bad voice-acting the series is known for and [[StylisticSuck runs with it]], resulting in an over the top 1980 B-Movie vibe; heavily inspired by Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''.

The plot of the game follows Agent G and, [[TheyFightCrime reluctant partner]], Detective Isaac Washington. They're hunting down the deranged crime lord/pimp, Papa Caesar; fighting through the waves and waves of [[NotUsingTheZedWord Mutants]] he's unleashed. While they're tracking down Ceaser he causes the death of Varla Gun's brother, leading the hottest stripper on the Bayou City club scene to track down Ceaser herself to take revenge. She'll have to get in line though; as Washington wants to get revenge for the death of this father, also caused by Ceaser.

Initially released exclusivity on the {{Wii}} in 2009 an Updated Re-release (House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut) was later released for the PlayStation3 with PlayStation Move support in 2011. The Extended Cut includes two levels not seen in the original Wii version Naked Terror and Creeping Flesh which focuses on [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Varla Gun's story]].

A PC port of the Extended Cut followed just in time for Halloween 2013, as ''The Typing of the Dead: Overkill'' (which includes the stand alone game) which is a follow up to the CultClassic ''The Typing of the Dead'' released on the Dreamcast and PC. This version also offered several purchasable dictionary [=DLCs=] which change the words needed to type with Creator/{{Shakespeare}}, Filth and Love based dictionaries available. In addition ''House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels'' was released for {{iOS}} and Android devices on April 25, 2013.

* AwesomenessMeter: '''Gorgasmic!'''
* TheBechdelTest: The ''Extended Cut'' even arguably passes, considering Varla and Candi trade banter about the mutants but then again its ending lampshades that the story is not a shining example of feminism.

* BrainInAJar: At the end [[spoiler: Varla Gun]] is nothing but this.

* CampingACrapper: Agent G makes a discovery that mutants use the toilet like normal people and mentions it'll go in his report as a "potential weakness". Washington is less impressed and just shoots him.

* DamselInDistress: Despite being able to handle herself fine in the extended cut levels Varla Guns he's kidnapped; twice.

* GameBreakingBug: an irritating one; in the Crawler boss fight, wherein the circle highlighting the boss's weak spot is [[TheComputerIsALyingBastard marked too high on its arm]], and trying to shoot there won't do anything. Shooting it in the same spot it said to on the other side will cancel its attack and deal damage.

* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath: The game's title is already an example by itself. In game the level's are a deliberate send-up of its parent franchise by means of turning it into a seventies exploitation film, with level subtitles such as Papa's Palace of Pain and Jailhouse Judgment.

* GunsAkimbo: Isaac in has a habit of dual wielding his [[strike:Desert Eagles]] AMS Magnums, and it's actually a requirement that you dual-wield Wiimotes for some gallery achievements. Not to mention that there's nothing stopping a player from sinking two credits into a machine and commandeering both guns.

* LocomotiveLevel: "The Scream Train", possibly a shout out to ''VideGame/ResidentEvilZero''

* MaleGaze: In the camera lingered at Varla Gunns's cleavage before going back up to her face. Not to mention the live-action pole dance featured over the opening credits.

Dead, after Sophie's death, is titled "Revenge."
* RareGuns: The assault rifle is modeled after the XM8, [[AnachronismStew despite the game being set in 1991]].

** Not only that, the tape which Caesar leaves to ''motherfucking'' Washington says...

* ShoutOut: The Whole game is one long one to]] grindhouse films (especially Film/PlanetTerror).

* StylisticSuck: the game mocks the previous games' bad acting, running with it and turning it into a grindhouse film.
* [[ThisIsTheFinalBattle This Is da Faynl Bawdl]]: Washington states that it seems like "this is it" as [[spoiler:Mother]] prepares to attack them. G likewise gets sentimental with him for a bit before they both take aim... [[spoiler:'''MISSING REEL''']]

** [[spoiler: Ironically, this traditional "{{Tomboy}} of the TomboyAndGirlyGirl pair dies" part of the trope is inverted in Varla's exclusive chapters of the PS3 version of ''Overkill'', where GirlyGirl Candi [[AnArmAndALeg gets her arm cut off]] by Meat Kattie's blade, and bleeds to death. Considering this is set just before Varla's devolvement to FauxActionGirl, this raises the implication that she underwent a HeroicBSOD, and couldn't get out of it for the rest of the game.]]

** Played straight at the start of ''Scream Train'' when all three protagonists have Caesar right where they want him, but their arguing over who gets to kill/arrest him allows him to get away. It goes on for minutes, before any of them notice. Issac does manage to nick his arm though.

House of the Dead: Overkill, is a prequel to the original ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' series. It takes the unintentionally bad voice-acting the series is known for and [[StylisticSuck runs with it]], resulting in an over the top 1980 B-Movie vibe; heavily inspired by Creator/QuentinTarantino's Film/{{Grindhouse}}.

* [[spoiler: ThUnfought]]: Papa Ceaser and the Warden by the end of the game.

* ActionGirl: Varla Guns in ''Overkill'', heavily lampshaded in her introduction voiceover. She slowly turns out to be a FauxActionGirl, though, which is itself lampshaded too, but the ''Extended Cut'', in turn, defies that status by putting her and new character [[GirlNextDoor Candi Stryper]] in the spotlight, via the all-new exclusive ''Naked Terror'' and ''Creeping Flesh'' episodes.

* AnArmAndALeg: In ''Overkill'' [[spoiler:Candi's right arm gets chopped off by the boss's giant axe/cleaver when it falls from a steel beam above them. She dies from the blood loss.]]

* AscendedMeme: ''Suffer Like G Did'' is both Agent G's theme song and a PS3 trophy[[note]]you need to be on your last life bar and then complete the level[[/note]] in ''OVERKILL''.

* {{BFG}}: Issac and G use miniguns during the final boss fight in ''Overkill''. How they got access to them becomes a NoodleIncident, as the first part of the boss fight simply shows "missing reel", and when the "movie" resumes, they're standing victorious with the miniguns.
* BittersweetEnding: In ''Overkill'', G and Issac stop Papa Cesar [[spoiler:and Clement]] from unleashing their plans, [[spoiler:but Varla's brain ends up getting separated from her body, and the last boss fight was against the mutated form of it.]]

* BrainInAJar: At the end [[Spoiler: Varla Gun]] is nothing but this.

* ContemplateOurNavels: The end of ''Overkill'' has the characters discuss the true meaning of their ordeal, with Washington thinking it's a postmodernist deconstruction of modern feminism. And swear gratuitously... even G, though he's just mocking Washington.
* ContinuityNod: ''Overkill'' has a couple: For example, the version of G's theme tune that plays over the main menu is titled ''Suffer Like G Did''.

* CowboyCop: Isaac Washington from ''Overkill'' would probably be this if we saw him do police work instead of shooting [[NotUsingTheZWord mutants]].

* DeadWeight: In the first few stages of ''Overkill'', fat zombies are the earliest kind of GiantMook, taking a few more body shots than normal enemies. The manual explains that a mutant's health is directly proportionate to its mass. They're also fast.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Parodied in ''Overkill'', of zombie movies in general. For example, in the ending, G and Isaac wonder what the underlying metaphor of this game was, with G suggesting "love isn't always right" and Isaac calling it a "damning indictment of contemporary feminism", pointing out that there are few other interpretations to "two dick-wielding cop cliches" [[spoiler:taking down a "hundred-foot birthing mother"]]. For another, during The Fetid Waters, Isaac asks G why they're immune to whatever it is that's creating all the [[NotUsingTheZWord mutants]] and nobody else is. [[spoiler:They aren't; the compound has a short life-span and, as they weren't exposed to the initial dosing, they simply haven't been infected - G because he only got into town afterward, Isaac because he was at his mom's.]]
* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler:Varla Guns in ''Overkill'']]. The trope is lampshaded and discussed by G at the end of the game.

* {{Fanservice}}: The opening credits to Overkill play over a live-action pole dance which has nothing to do with anything, possibly as an homage to ''Film/PlanetTerror''.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The Crawler in ''Overkill'' is almost literally this with the only explanation being that the mutagen doesn't only affect humans.
* GameBreakingBug: ''Overkill'' has an irritating one in the Crawler boss fight, wherein the circle highlighting the boss's weak spot is [[TheComputerIsALyingBastard marked too high on its arm]], and trying to shoot there won't do anything. Shooting it in the same spot it said to on the other side will cancel its attack and deal damage.

* GunsAkimbo: Isaac in ''Overkill'' has a habit of dual wielding his [[strike:Desert Eagles]] AMS Magnums, and it's actually a requirement that you dual-wield Wiimotes for some gallery achievements. Not to mention that there's nothing stopping a player from sinking two credits into a machine and commandeering both guns.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: ''Overkill'' has Bitch, Agent, and Motherfucker.

* LampshadeHanging: In the last scene of ''Overkill'', the characters pick apart almost every single trope that was used in the game (and the ExploitationFilm genre), including Washington's [[SirSwearsALot excessive cursing]] and the fact that [[spoiler:the only (decent) female character [[DisposableWoman has absolutely no impact on the plot and ends up as a brain in a jar]]]]).

* MercyKill: Jasper in ''Overkill''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d through the entire scene in question, of course.

* NoodleIncident: The first phase of the final boss fight in ''Overkill'', which is skipped over in an alleged "missing reel". The dialogue immediately afterwards suggests that it would have been a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: ''Overkill'' lets you buy a HandCannon that comes with its Firepower maxed out, which equates to everything that isn't a boss dying in one shot. A tad subverted - you need to be '''really fucking accurate''' with it, and you have to carefully time your reloads during down time because they take very long. The automatic shotgun is better at chaining combos and ammo capacity.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Varla tries to go on one in ''Overkill''... but miserably fails. Twice.

* SequelHook: The ending of ''Overkill'' establishes that, at the very least, Bayou is not even ''close'' to mutant-free. And the poster for the last level says "They're just getting started."
** JustifiedTrope, at least in a strict chronological sense: ''Overkill'' is a prequel.

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:''Overkill'' ends its credits by playing the tape Caesar left for the protagonists at the beginning of ''The Fetid Waters'', which reveals that "powerful friends" (presumably Curien and Goldman) have access to Clement's compound, and more surprisingly, that Washington's father isn't actually dead...]]

* StylisticSuck: Overkill mocks the previous games' bad acting, running with it and turning it into a grindhouse film.

* TransformationTrauma: Jasper turns himself into the first boss of ''Overkill'' by injecting himself with the virus. Given that he starts the game as a quadriplegic, his status as a boss is justified by his new PsychicPowers.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted in ''Overkill''. As soon as [[spoiler:Clement]] reveals himself as the BigBad, Isaac Washington immediately shoots him... only to discover [[spoiler:that there's a pane of bulletproof glass between them.]]

* ClicheStorm: The game is a loving parody of B-movies; so of course this is in affect.

* PolishedPort: The PS3 and PC ports.

The plot of the game follows Agent G and [[TheyFightCrime reluctant partner]] Detective Isaac Washington as they hunt down the deranged crime lord/Pimp Papa Caesar fighting through waves and waves of [[NotUsingTheZedWord Mutants]]. While tracking down Ceaser he causes the death of Varla Gun's brother leading the hottest stripper on the Bayou City club scene to track down Ceaser herself to take revenge but she'll have to get in line as Washington wants to get revenge for the death of this father.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: ''Overkill'' has one of these during the Carnival level:

The game contains examples of the following tropes:

** Played straight at the start of ''Scream Train'' when all three protagonists have Caesar right where they want him, but their arguing over who gets to kill/arrest him allows him to get away. It goes on for minutes, before any of them notice. Issac does manage to nick his arm though.