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Varla Guns -- House of the Dead: Overkill



Whether it was the Wii’s limited graphics capacity or the makers of House of the Dead: Overkill trying to be ironic, female lead Varla Guns is not much of a looker.

Funbags to rival that of Christina Hendricks aside, not even strutting around wearing two tea towels can detract from her man face and perennially greasy mop. (She might not look too bad here, but her in-game likeness is a much grislier story.)

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