With Madworld purported to be the most violent video game in history, Sega has now broken ground on two controversial fronts.
For unsurprisingly, House of the Dead: Overkill has been honored with the Guiness World Record for “most swearing in a video game.” The f-word is used 189 times, or roughly once per minute, and accounts for 3% of all the dialogue uttered in the game.
The stylized on-rails shooter is published by Sega, and was developed by Headstrong Games. Writer Jonathan Burroughs had this to say about his “achievement”:
“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.”
Fuck yes.
… Think the Wii is done over-compensating for the “kiddie system” taunts it’s endured since its launch?




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