The Typing of the Dead
is an offbeat first-person puzzle-action game for the PC that lets you
fight hordes of gruesome zombies by quickly typing out words that appear
onscreen. This unusual game actually has a history: It originally
debuted on Sega's Dreamcast console in 2000 and was itself a modified
version of Sega's previously released light-gun arcade game, The House
of the Dead 2. The Typing of the Dead certainly looks dated, considering
its age and the number of times it's been ported onto different
platforms, but it's also surprisingly fun.
The
Typing of the Dead's "story," such as it is, concerns a mad scientist's
attempt to create an army of zombies, led by a superzombie "emperor,"
to rule the world. Only your character a special agent armed with a
Dreamcast console and keyboard can stop him. That's all you need to know
about The Typing of the Dead's story, because once you start playing,
you'll be too busy frantically typing away at zombies to care about
anything else. Every time an enemy appears onscreen, it's accompanied by
a word or phrase that you must type in quickly and accurately to defeat
it. This might not sound too interesting, but things can get very
exciting when three or four angry zombies each bearing a long,
challenging phrase suddenly leap out at you from all sides.
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