History VideoGame / TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: You know this game is going to be different in tone from the mainline games when the first cutscene in the game features Isaac sucker-punching G and greeting him with "What's up, ''[[SirSwearsALot motherfucker]]?!''" Also an EstablishingCharacterMoment for him.

* ButtonMashing: The FinalBoss in ''Typing'' [[spoiler:can be defeated simply by typing "anything, as long as you type like a ''motherfucker''." You do inflict bonus damage for typing phrases that fit the current on-screen category, but it's easy enough to win simply by mashing the keyboard.]]

'''G:''' Mutants. How many times do I have to tell you to not use the Z word?

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 as well as [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] ''The Typing of the Dead 2'' for PC. This version also offered several purchasable dictionary [=DLCs=] which change the words needed to type with Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Filth and Love based dictionaries available. Eventually, the ability to import user-created dictionaries was added in March 2015. In addition ''House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels'' was released for [[IOSGames iOS]] and Android devices on April 25, 2013.

* ArtifactTitle: Subverted in a metaphorical sense. A good deal of the levels take place in "houses", i.e. the fun house, the big house, the [[BreadEggsMilkSquick whore house]]... plus, the presentation is very ''grindhouse''-inspired.
* 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]]

** The regular ol' Shotgun is very cool in that old-school "shk-shk-BOOM" sort of way, but reload times are the main AchillesHeel with your guns, and each shell has to be loaded into this gun ''one at a time''. What's more, the presence of the Auto-Shotgun makes it practically obsolete right out the gate.

* BodyHorror: Many of the enemies, especially Nigel and Sebastian (two twins horribly fused together) and the Lobber from Overkill. And from the same game, [[spoiler:Varla Guns, after Warden Darling put his mother's brain ''in her head''... and apparently forgot to reattach the back of her cranium.]] ''Extended Cut'' adds the DualBoss Sindy & Coco, respectively a DistaffCounterpart to the above Lobber in the looks department and a mutant monkey stripper.

* BraggingRightsReward: The Gwendolyn, from the [=PS3=] Extended Cut. Easily the best gun in the game by a wide margin, but by the time you obtain it you've already beaten the game twice to unlock it (the second time using only the basic AMS Magnum) and then beaten several more stages to farm enough money to buy it.

* BrickJoke: Washington calls G "Agent Gwendolyn" at the beginning of the "Carny" chapter; G doesn't protest until two chapters later [[NonSequiturThud after being kicked awake]].

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

''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 BMovie vibe; heavily inspired by Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''.

* LighterAndSofter: Reconstructed. While it's still no-holds-barred when it comes to the scenes of death and destruction and good ol' zombie {{Gorn}}, the dialogue, full of Isaac's [[SirSwearsALot potty]] [[ClusterFBomb mouth]] and G's StraightMan tendencies, helps lighten the mood a lot.

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 as well as [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] ''The Typing of the Dead 2'' for PC. This version also offered several purchasable dictionary [=DLCs=] which change the words needed to type with Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Filth and Love based dictionaries available. In addition ''House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels'' was released for [[IOSGames iOS]] and Android devices on April 25, 2013.

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 as well as [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] ''The Typing of the Dead 2'' for PC. This version also offered several purchasable dictionary [=DLCs=] which change the words needed to type with Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Filth and Love based dictionaries available. In addition ''House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels'' was released for [[IOSGames iOS and Android devices on April 25, 2013.

'''The 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 BMovie vibe; heavily inspired by Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''.

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 as well as [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] ''The Typing of the Dead 2'' for PC. This version also offered several purchasable dictionary [=DLCs=] which change the words needed to type with Creator/WilliamShakespeare, 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.

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!! They've come for tropes. You'll give them...examples:

* AnArmAndALeg: [[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.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Minigun. [[GatlingGood No need to explain why it's awesome]], but its cool-down period is rather long if you allow it to overheat, leaving you a sitting duck for a good three or four seconds-- which is an eternity in games like this. Restricting it to short bursts can help avoid the problem, but that kind of defeats the purpose of the Minigun to start with, and is a totally unviable strategy in the final boss battle, where you're forced to use it.
** The regular ol' Shotgun is very cool in that old-school "shk-shk-BOOM" sort of way, but reload times are the main AchillesHeel with your guns, and each shell has to be loaded into this gun ''one at a time''. What's more, the presence of the Auto-Shotgun makes it practically obsolete right out the gate.

* ArtifactTitle: Subverted in a metaphorical sense. A good deal of the levels take place in "houses", i.e. the fun house, the big house, the [[BreadEggsMilkSquick whore house]]...plus, the presentation is very ''grindhouse''-inspired.
* 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]]

* {{BFG}}: Issac and G use miniguns during the final boss fight. 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: 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 they can't undo that because the last boss fight was against the mutated form of it. To make matters worse, the audio tape Caesar sent G and Issac reveals his true motive: to inform them of the underground facility of Clement's and the powerful men pulling the strings behind (Curien and Goldman). Granted, Issac is very likely to be unaware of this until it is too late. Plus, his father is stated to be still alive.]]

* BondOneLiner: Washington is the king of these.
* BrainInAJar: At the end [[spoiler: Varla Guns]] is nothing but this.

* DualBoss: ''Extended Cut'' adds a dual boss in the first new chapter, but one of the two mutants in question is so massive that it literally can't do anything except send a ShockwaveStomp or two at you, leaving you to deal with the smaller one for the whole fight.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Although in this case it would have been kinder to the audience not to show that kind of love.

* 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.
** The "Carny" chapter in the Wii version is very glitchy compared to the rest of the game. Its boss fight in particular is difficult to get through without the game freezing for whatever reason.
** The "Extra Mutants" mode appears to be an afterthought, as the added enemies tend to spawn in inconvenient locations. In one scene in "Ballistic Trauma" where hospital doors blow open and zombies swarm out, one female zombie only present on Extra Mutants can get stuck behind one of the doors. You can't kill her, and the scene won't advance until all on-screen enemies are dead. UnwinnableByMistake ensues. On very rare occasions, the game will also forget you're in cutscene mode and have enemies attack you while you're unable to fight back.

* HateAtFirstSight: G and Issac Washington meet this way before they get better.

* [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity+1 Gun]]: In the Extended Cut remake of ''Overkill'', it's Isaac's favorite guns, the [[spoiler: Gwendolyn]]. It has the power of the automatic shotgun, the range of the handgun, and it has BottomlessMagazines. Slightly mitigated by the fact that it doesn't have the crowd control of the shotgun, but why would you need it anyway? To get it, one must clear each stage (in any order) on Director's Cut once in "Classic Mode," where you're only allowed to use the default AMS Magnum.

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

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Takes place in 1991 and was released in 2009.
* [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See in Her?]]: Varla explicitly asks Candi why Jasper went with her. [[{{Squick}} Candi starts to explain]], though [[TooMuchInformation Varla tells her to shut up]].

** 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. Even better, Isaac actually shoots Caesar while he's monologuing, and then promptly apologizes and asks him to continue.

* LighterAndSofter: While it's still no-holds-barred when it comes to the scenes of death and destruction and good ol' zombie {{Gorn}}, the dialogue, full of Isaac's [[SirSwearsALot potty]] [[ClusterFBomb mouth]] and G's StraightMan tendencies, helps lighten the mood a lot.

* TragicMonster: Jasper, per TransformationTrauma, and the Screamer, who's an unfortunate test subject used in Papa Caesar's experiments.

* BittersweetEnding: 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 they can't undo that because the last boss fight was against the mutated form of it.]]

* 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]]

* BraggingRightsReward: The Gwendolyn, from the PS3 Extended Cut. Easily the best gun in the game by a wide margin, but by the time you obtain it you've already beaten the game twice to unlock it (the second time using only the basic AMS Magnum) and then beaten several more stages to farm enough money to buy it.

** The PS3 version of the Extended Cut plays with this: the speech is censored by default, in both voice and subtitles. How do you restore the dialogue to its foulmouthed glory? By ''shooting the censored words'' during cutscenes.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Papa Caesar is killed in the electric chair by Warden Darling, cheating Isaac out of his revenge. Candi also gets this in the PS3 version when a giant cleaver the boss was using drops from the rafters it had got caught on and slices off her arm. She winds up dying from blood loss.]]

* UpdatedRerelease: Two of them: first, ''Extended Cut'' for the PS3, then ''Typing'' for PC.

Initially released exclusivity on the {{Wii}} in 2009, an UpdatedRerelease, the ''Extended Cut'', was later released for the PlayStation3 with PlayStation Move support in 2011. The Extended Cut features sharply improved graphics, new bonus weapons, and two levels not seen in the original Wii version, "Naked Terror" and "Creeping Flesh", which focus on [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Varla Guns' story]].

** 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," "Make your time," or "Move ZIG"]] or [[VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} "Looking for sailors"]], or come across a pair of zombies with [[Series/FatherTed "Careful now" and "Down with this"]], or [[Series/TheTwoRonnies "Fork Handles" and "Four Candles"]]. One of the DLC dictionaries adds Shakespeare quotes.

** 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 [[VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} "Looking for sailors"]], or come across a pair of zombies with [[Series/FatherTed "Careful now" and "Down with this"]], or [[Series/TheTwoRonnies "Fork Handles" and "Four Candles"]].

-> '''Isaac:''' Shit! I [[ClusterFBomb fuckin']] hate these zom-- \\
'''G:''' [[InsistentTerminology Mutants.]] How many times do I have to tell you to [[NotUsingTheZWord not use the Z word]]?

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 as well as [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] ''Typing of the Dead 2'' for PC. This version also offered several purchasable dictionary [=DLCs=] which change the words needed to type with Creator/WilliamShakespeare, 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.

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/WilliamShakespeare, 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.

** 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 [[Series/TheTwoRonnies "Fork Handles" and "Four Candles"]].
** ''Typing of the Dead: Overkill'' also has lots of references to other SEGA-published games, like VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} and VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles.
* SirSwearsALot: Washington.

* FanDisservice: Plenty to go around in the Naked Terror with all the zomb.. [[NotUsingTheZWord ehhh...]] mutant strippers. Specially the boss.

* TheBechdelTest: The ending lampshades that the story is not a shining example of feminism. The ''Extended Cut'' arguably passes, considering Varla and Candi trade banter about the mutants.

* NoodleIncident: The first phase of the final boss fight, which is skipped over in an alleged "missing reel". The dialogue immediately afterwards suggests that it would have been a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** Subverted in the Director's Cut mode of the ''Extended Cut'', where they reveal [[spoiler:that they did find the miniguns and fought Mother by destroying pillars]]. It was definitely a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
* NotUsingTheZWord: "They're mutants!"
-->'''Isaac:''' Shit! I fuckin' ''hate'' these zombies!\\

!! The game contains examples of the following tropes: