A lot of the pre-release chatter about The House the Dead: Overkill focused on just how startling the game's cursing was. This wasn't feedback from parent's groups or other clueless n00bs to the gaming scene, either, you were hearing hardened games industry vets balk at just how often characters in Overkill dropped the F-bomb.
It seems they weren't the only ones. Today the Guinness Book of World's Records sent out a press release hyping up their forthcoming Gamer's Edition that announced that House of the Dead: Overkill had achieved the World's Record for most cursing in a single video game. Overkill won its M-rated honor through use of an unprecedented 189 F-bombs throughout the course of the game.
Commentary from Jonathan Burroughs, writer of The House of the Dead: Overkill, sends this bit of news from "kinda neat" to "amazing super awesome."
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.
