The Human Centipede - The Game is based from The Human Centipede - The Grossout. Oh, the latter is also a horror movie that stars that bloke from Lost. It also involves mouth to anus but not in an especially good way unless your into half human, half insect... thing. There's always one.
Anyway, here's the flash game adaptation, created by those responsible for humour's website i-mockery.com Could it have been anyone else? Should I really ask that?
Perhaps interestingly (and perhaps unsurprisingly) the roles have been somewhat reversed for the game.
You play as doctor turned madman Dr. Heiter who, like in the film, is obsessed with creating the world's first (and we hope last) Human centipede. In case you're not aware of the procedure, it involves using a bit of leg meat and using it to attach one mouth's to another's butt hole.
Wait a minute, this stuff is classed as surgery, right? Doesn't that make Dr. Heiter a surgeon who therefore should be known as Mr. Heiter?
Whatever it is, I don't think Dr. Heiter did a very good job here. I mean, he hasn't even bothered to shave their heads. And given their hair colour (purple? blue?), he seems to like people who edge along creative and perhaps experimental. Or perhaps he raided some alternative club. No wonder they're 'rebelling' as the in game story suggests.
The gameplay could be best described as a cross between Space Invaders and Pang. Each level presents the doctor with a full length human centipede that gradually snakes its way to the bottom of the screen. Each time the doctor successfully shoots a 'segment' of the centipede, that sprite turns into a tombstone that, unless destroyed, acts as collision for future centipedes and thus manipulates their route to the bottom (ha ha! I said... never mind...). If any segment reaches the bottom (ha ha!) and touches (ho ho!) Dr. Heiter, he will lose a life.
Though I'm not sure why.
Elsewhere, random enemies and items, such as cops and falling knives, will appear seemingly out of nowhere. Both add slight variation to the gameplay while rewarding the player with bonus points should they successfully shoot any of them.
The game includes a Top 10 scoreboard and numerous achievements, some of which are so super secret they can only be unlocked should you play the game for a certain length of time. That length could be longer than you think given the difficulty ramps up pretty quickly. Also it doesn't help that the fire button isn't exactly responsive...
Perhaps the biggest disappointment might be that it doesn't match the overall theme/story of the movie. Discounting the 'story' segment before the actual game begins, those who know little to nothing about the film aren't going to learn much of anything here nor does it have anything new to offer 'fans'.
In fact, given the context it takes - the rebellion of the human centipede - the game actually makes it sound more like a Sci Fi movie than anything Horror oriented.
MEMO TO GAME: Neon hair dye and tombstones? Really?
You can play the Human Centipede at i-mockery.com or indeed here.