Hit detection can be a little fluky at times, as shooting a mutant up close seems harder than it should and hitting anywhere remotely near the face often counts as a head shot. This ups the difficulty a notch, but precision is lacking somewhat. I was happy to see the touchscreen controls aren’t so basic as tapping the enemy to fire you have to slide your finger around to adjust the reticule and hit an on-screen button to shoot. The only thing you have to worry about is the shooting, which is fairly well done here.
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You get a screen full of mutants, and after shooting them all the camera moves to a new position, like you’re on rails. If you’re unfamiliar with the phrase “rails shooter,” it just means that the movement is automatic. The gameplay? Cut-and-dry, the old rails shooter formula not so much perfected as it is adapted for mobile. I don’t know how it was for Wii, but here it just amounts to a bunch of non-sequitur variations of, “Oh no, we have to shoot all these mutants now.” Not exactly narrative virtuosity, but then again what sort of chump comes to a House of the Dead game looking for a story? Not I.
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The story-if you can call it a story-is told through a short series of dialog boxes between the special agents from the Wii game. Compared to the earlier games, where the laughs came from ridiculously poor translation and confused voice work, the camp here is all self-conscious and superficial. The mutants don’t sport bell-bottoms or Afros (unfortunately) but the game has a stylized film grain and funky wah guitar accompaniment.
You’re again shooting hordes of ravenous zombies, or “mutants” as their called here, but now there’s a ’70s grindhouse film aesthetic and touchscreen controls. There are some surface differences with this new title, but overall it stays true to the originals. House of the Dead: Overkill LR is a mobile adaptation of the Wii reboot of the same name. Despite short glimpses of promise, this game broke my heart. I was initially impressed, but sadly, I found the title plagued with stability issues. You can imagine my elation in being assigned SEGA’s latest iteration for mobile, House of the Dead: Overkill – The Lost Reels. I look back on my time with the House of the Dead series fondly, having spent way too many quarters on their arcade incarnations in my adolescence.
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