The Nintendo Wii is an underrated machine as far as one of a kind, sometimes strange game music goes. House of the Dead Overkill is just one of many Wii games with a fantastic and unique soundtrack. I even made a list of my favorite Wii game OSTs of all time, in video form, when I wanted to make videos my thing. Ew. Anyway, atop that list sits one of the most fun and over the top soundtracks I've ever enjoyed. It's a shame I can't seem to find much in the way of official releases of this music, and it's a damn shame Pitstop Productions, the company that created all the music and voicework on House of the Dead Overkill, hasn't scored a hundred more games by this point. Oh crap, they have. Good for them.

House of the Dead Overkill is basically the funkiest game soundtrack Sega has ever produced, and this is Sega we are talking about, so that's saying something. Sega has produced some of the funkiest albums known to game music. Got that Toejam and Earl, got that Casino Zone and more from Sonic the Hedgehog, and can’t forget the Streets of Rage soundtracks. I haven’t even mentioned all the funky tunes the dreamcast produced.

The best representation of ‘da funk’ is with the games main theme. It kicks off with some effects laden guitars, then comes that wonderful bass line and we are now officially grooving. This track is so fun that it could fit in basically any game genre. Puzzle game, racing game, but nah, we are out here murdering zombies and cursing like a sailor, raised by sailors. The drum work is fantastic, I hear some organ backing things up. I'm still not over how great the bass is, and they know it because the bass gets the last note of the entire track.

The vocal arrangement features some great vocals and tells the story of a child who's father left and the home slowly crumbling around the family that was left behind. The protagonist of the song isn't much better though, and eventually left the house to crumble as well.

I wouldn't have much more to say beyond, “This is a jam, listen please.” but, for some reason it’s not that easy. There are these incredible vocal arrangements of many of the songs on the soundtrack. Yet there is no official vocal arrangement soundtrack, or even a standard game soundtrack release. VGMdb doesn't have a single note about any official releases of anything HotD Overkill.I thought game music had come so far by the Wii era, but not far enough to even get to legally buy and listen to game music still.

You think I enjoy liking niche stuff? (yes, no shit.) Well I don't! It's impossible to find anywhere, and forget about trying to find and throw money at some of these mysterious people who don't release music they already made and released in video game form.

Just release the damn soundtrack officially. You know Pit Stop Productions or Sega, or both, have an old CD-R of the master tracks lying around in a warehouse somewhere, underneath a pile of old Sonic dolls and Jet Grind Radio hoodies. Why do you hide things from me? It's not healthy.

It’s also a bit strange how they made this down home, very niche old school funk soundtrack, but a lot of the stuff on the Pitstop Productions website is fully orchestral high budget sound. Maybe House of the Dead Overkill was one of the early games that got them on the map for bigger sound productions, I don't know, I just want a high quality official release of this song and this soundtrack, and I want it ten years ago.