wraggster
April 24th, 2013, 23:53
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Sega's profanity-laden (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/16/house-of-the-dead-overkill-has-most-swearing-ever/) on-rails shooter House of the Dead: Overkill (http://www.joystiq.com/game/the-house-of-the-dead-overkill) will make its way to iOS when the App Store refreshes tonight. Dubbed House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels, the universal iOS app is a remixed version of the 2009 Wii game broken down into three different "movies" – an initial purchase unlocks the first movie and finishing that will unlock the second, with an in-app purchase of $2 required to access the final campaign.
Controls are handled through three different methods. There's a virtual stick-and-reticle set-up and another using accelerometer controls, but the third option is most odd – a locked Frenzy Tap setting. Touch Arcade (http://toucharcade.com/2013/04/24/house-of-the-dead-overkill-the-lost-reels-segas-classic-arcade-shooter-comes-to-the-touchscreen/) has been playing the game today and says it hasn't figured out how to unlock that third option yet, nor what exactly it is, but posits that it may be a tap-to-shoot style of play.
House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels should be available after iTunes updates tonight at 11 p.m. ET. The app is already live in the New Zealand territory and priced at $6.50 in New Zealand dollars, which comes out to about $5.50 here in the US.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/24/house-of-the-dead-overkill-lines-up-ios-in-its-crosshairs/
Sega's profanity-laden (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/16/house-of-the-dead-overkill-has-most-swearing-ever/) on-rails shooter House of the Dead: Overkill (http://www.joystiq.com/game/the-house-of-the-dead-overkill) will make its way to iOS when the App Store refreshes tonight. Dubbed House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels, the universal iOS app is a remixed version of the 2009 Wii game broken down into three different "movies" – an initial purchase unlocks the first movie and finishing that will unlock the second, with an in-app purchase of $2 required to access the final campaign.
Controls are handled through three different methods. There's a virtual stick-and-reticle set-up and another using accelerometer controls, but the third option is most odd – a locked Frenzy Tap setting. Touch Arcade (http://toucharcade.com/2013/04/24/house-of-the-dead-overkill-the-lost-reels-segas-classic-arcade-shooter-comes-to-the-touchscreen/) has been playing the game today and says it hasn't figured out how to unlock that third option yet, nor what exactly it is, but posits that it may be a tap-to-shoot style of play.
House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels should be available after iTunes updates tonight at 11 p.m. ET. The app is already live in the New Zealand territory and priced at $6.50 in New Zealand dollars, which comes out to about $5.50 here in the US.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/24/house-of-the-dead-overkill-lines-up-ios-in-its-crosshairs/