"The House of the Dead: Overkill: Extended Cut" features the 7 remastered levels from the original "The House of the Dead: Overkill" game plus 2 brand new exclusive levels unveiling a side story featuring two angry and armed strippers.
Unlike previous games, the bosses name are not taken from Tarot cards, being the first game in the series to do so.
With this game being set in 1991, this game become the first game chronologically in the series.
This is the first game in the series that allow the player(s) to change their choice of weapon during the gameplay, which this feature is not seen at all in all of the previous games.
The video game The Typing of the Dead: Overkill (2013) is an alternate version of this game for "The Typing of The Dead" series. While it follows the same general plot and story line, it replaces the original game's shooting game-play with keyboard typing mechanics. It includes the original shooting mechanics as an option.