The House of the Dead breaks profanity record

Mike Bantick
Wednesday, 18 March 2009 05:29

Your IT - Entertainment

The Wii on-rails horror shooter The House of the Dead has broken a Guinness World record.  But it is not one your mum would be proud of.

Helping to mature the library of Wii games SEGA dropped the zombie shooter The House of the Dead into our living rooms.

It is full of adult orientated visuals and game-play.  But it is also contains plenty of colourful language.

The Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition lists the shooter as holding the ‘most swearing in a video game’.

To achieve this feat it was necessary to clock up a whopping 189 uses of the f-word across the course of the game – just over one per minute or three percent of the total dialogue.

Video Games Records Manager for Guinness World Records, Gaz Deaves, said: "This record category pre-existed for movies, music and television, but The House of the Dead: OVERKILL is the first video game to be awarded the title in the Gamer's Edition. It's a mark of the times."

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."

Lookout!  More f-in' Zombies!