Project Overkill
The evil Terracom corporation has struck a deal with alien forces to eradicate populated areas on key planets. This initiative has been named Project Overkill. As one of four mercenaries hired to protect the…
Project Overkill is an adventure, released 1 October 1996 on PlayStation.
What Project Overkill is
Project Overkill was released in 1996. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The evil Terracom corporation has struck a deal with alien forces to eradicate populated areas on key planets. This initiative has been named Project Overkill. As one of four mercenaries hired to protect the citizens, you must destroy hordes of alien forces while getting to the root of Terracom's nefarious purposes. Choose from a demolitions expert, a genetic hybrid, an alien weapons specialist, and a special ops assassin. The action is viewed from an isometric perspective, where your objective is to destroy anything and everything that moves. Spanning over 50 levels (including hidden areas), the game will have you infiltrating research buildings, laboratories, and blood-soaked alien…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Project Overkill holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Project Overkill launched on 1 October 1996, within three weeks of Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey.
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