#THE TYPING OF THE DEAD SERIES#

Now that all that's been said, do know that the game isn't all bad. Lastly, you *really* miss aiming while playing.

The keyboard you use must either be British or American in nature, so all us Europeans are out of luck(since there will be symbols that the game simply doesn't accept our way of typing in). I honestly don't think it's an exaggeration to say that you can hardly lift a finger in the game without it insisting on telling you how many points you scored and how high you rank compared to the last hundred players(!)). Taking different paths in the game seems to have been removed entirely, in spite of it being the main provider of re-playability value for the last two games, along with high scores(which are driven to the extreme here. Also, some of the bosses are far too easy, while others are nearly impossible(and this doesn't even always relate to how far in the game you are). The difficulty is wildly uneven taking down the zombies is typically outrageously easy, no matter how little effort you put into it, whereas saving the hostages is frustratingly hard. most of the zombies, including several of the bosses, dance around threateningly(not unlike faceless, nameless hand-to-hand fighting adversaries who are still waiting to get beaten up by the main character in some martial arts films), waiting for you to type out the words. There is virtually no sense of danger for most of the game. You tire of the typing much sooner than the firing your gun of the previous games. While all that may sound appealing(hence my acquiring the game in the first place, which I certainly don't regret) in theory, and the concept certainly is new, unfortunately, the reality is something else. You can only type on one zombie at a time, so you need to estimate which will reach you first and/or which makes the more dangerous foe to leave standing while you deal with the others, and if you start typing on the wrong one, you can simply press Escape(which will erase all your typing on that zombie) to switch back to being able to choose which to type on(which you do by pressing the first letter of that enemy). You type every letter and symbol, and you are neither required to take care of spacing between words or capitalizing letters. As you get further in the game, longer words, even sentences, appear on the zombies.

The idea sounds quite bizarre, but it works fairly well, and you quickly get into the typing. Instead of firing a weapon at the zombies charging at you, you type words that appear across them. For anyone who is unaware, this game is The House of the Dead 2, with your computer's keyboard in place of guns. or had a crazy thought, and decided to run with it.

#THE TYPING OF THE DEAD SERIES#

This is interesting Sega, the creators of countless highly entertaining games and the undisputed king of arcade gaming, who have led this series from the beginning(from back when the first The House of the Dead was just a machine in the arcades) either felt that they needed to add something new to the franchise.

The typing of the dead