Wiiiiiiiii…. this sure is a fun game!  So long as you don’t mind blowing zombies heads off with automatic shotguns and hearing the “F” word 189 times… yes that’s right 189 times! We bought this game after finishing and enjoying The House of the Dead 2 & 3.  It was just like the arcade game of the 90’s with graphics crappy enough to send you back in a time warp but we didn’t care… it was fun.  The kids were able to play it with us because even though it was violent it was done in a comic book style that was more funny than scary.  Not so with “Overkill” … this most definitely is not a game for the kiddies! It follows a storyline in a Grindhouse movie fashion which is VERY cool but VERY VERY motherf@$#ing crude!  With lines like “I’m going to rip your motherf*#king balls off” and “Freeze Bitches” the language was a real shock to us and from the first few frames we knew this was going to be a Mummy and Daddy game only. It’s rated MA 15+ and I would have been disappointed if it didn’t have strong horror themes but you have to remember The House of the Dead 2 &3 has the same rating YET they are worlds apart!  The real scary thing about this game is not the content, it’s the fact there is no language warnings on the game.  It would not have stopped me from buying the game if there WAS a warning I just wouldn’t have told the kids about the latest “Family” purchase.  So gamers if you are after a fun “family” game, this is not the one for you.  However if you are after some seriously fun multi-player zombie slaying fun… go ahead and buy this game.  Just be warned… you’ll be swearing like a motherf*%king sailor after a few hours of this game!

This game was e-mailed to me by my husband and I just have to share it.  Basically you are a snake and your task is to eat the mice that pop up on the screen. With every mouse consumed the snake grows longer making the task of not touching the body with the head even harder.   We have all played a game like this at one point or another so you should know this but I’ll say it anyway…”Beware: It’s highly addictive.”

Yesterday my 7 year old “clocked” her first game – Barbie:The island Princess on the Nintendo Wii. This is her first games console and I have to admit it’s pretty good. When I was seven our gaming console was the good old Atari 2600. I remember the day my father brought it home. It was like the heavens opened up and shone a beam directly into our house….wow! Even the kids next door came over to gape wide eyed at this marvelous piece of technology. Remember the games Asteroids, Berzerk, and of course Space Invaders? I LOVED them but there certainly wasn’t the luxury of being able to save your progress. No way, back in the good old days if you wanted to “clock” a game you woke up at the crack of dawn and stayed glued to the screen until dinner time. You better have a strong bladder as well because a true gamer will control bodily function until an appropriate rest period presents itself. Also when you ran out of lives you died…simple. None of this starting from the last checkpoint or refreshing at the previous level. Oh no, you had to accept defeat, rub your eyes and start all over again.