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March 17th, 2009, 07:16 GMT · By

House of the Dead: Overkill Named the Most Profane Game in History

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The most profane game in the world, says Guinness
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Video games have evolved a lot in the last few years, and have reached, as a lot of critics dare say, an art form, expressing a lot of things that usually can't be portrayed through conventional means like movies or TV shows.

But let's not forget that, fundamentally, games are just a form of entertainment, created for us to have fun envisioning ourselves doing things that normally can't be done. Such a title is House of the Dead: Overkill, which was just published by Sega for the
Nintendo Wii. Part of the company's mature title lineup for the small white Japanese console, the game took itself “seriously” and provided gamers with a heavy dose of mindless fun.

But it has just been reported that the game has now broken a world record, according to the Guinness association, which registers all new records in various editions of its famous book. It didn't win in terms of sales or quality, but for being the most profane game ever created, as it uses the f-word a staggering 189 times throughout the dialog.

That's right, 189 times, or roughly one time per each minute of the game, you'll be hearing the most severe swear word imaginable. Such a record category already existed for movies, music and television, and the representatives of Guinness decided to bring it to the Gamer's Edition of the famous record book.

Jonathan Burroughs, writer of The House of the Dead: Overkill, stated, “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.”

Well this will surely shut up a lot of people who said that the Wii lacked mature titles, as the game is quite clearly not for kids or for casual gamers.

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