House of the Dead is an old horror-themed rail shooter game, developed and released by Sega in 1998. The gameplay can be summarized as a shooting gallery with zombies. House of the Dead runs on older version of Windows, so you may need a virtual machine. An arcade classic, The House of The Dead 2, was deemed one of the most successful arcade games of its generation. It was featured in lists that placed it in the Top 100 games of all time, and that success was felt all across the world, from Japan to the United States, the game was a hit. PC; House of the Dead. House of the Dead; More House of the Dead Fixes. Mc KHRYST no CD House of the Dead House of the Death v1.0 House of the Dead. This review of the Dreamcast version (which is identical to this PC download in every aspect except the PC replaces a couple of game modes with IPX multiplayer) at GameCritics.com says it all: 'A perfect example of such creative, atypical game design is Typing Of The Dead—published by Sega and designed by in-house team Smilebit. This third installment, House of the Dead III, was no exception. The arcade game had a plastic pump action shotgun for you to blast the onscreen zombies, adding a sense of involvement that you just couldn't find on a home system. Problematically, however, none of this tactile appeal translates to the PC version.

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'I Don't wanna die!' God, I used to love The House of The Dead - and Virtua Cop too, while we're talking coin-op light-gun games. Sega has now finally pulled the zombie finger out of its backside (nice image) and released the latest in the franchise, The House Of The Dead III, on PC. The game is two years late, mind, but at least you can still blast the on-screen zombies with a replica weapon.

The House Of The Dead III follows the template of the two earlier games, presenting a basic on-rails shooter where you (and a friend in the co-op mode -though not available in this PC version either) shoot the various rotting nasties as they burst through doors, climb ceilings, fall from the sky and crawl along the ground. The storyline is mostly incomprehensible, but is set 20 years after the last game, and follows the adventures of a male and female agent trying to find out why there are so many genetically enhanced zombies about the place. Or something. In any case, you won't care because the voice-acting is terrible - it even manages to make the actors in Blade: Trinity look like Oscar contenders.

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One-Gun Salute

Your only weapon is a hefty shotgun, which automatically reloads when you run out of ammo - you don't have to keep pointing the gun off-screen as in previous versions, which makes both the Survival mode (arcadestyle branching storyline) and Time Attack mode (shoot enemies against the clock) much easier to complete.

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Now, all you have to do is follow the on-rails action, aim the cross-hair with a mouse or light-gun and blast any slavering zombies before they get too close, damage your character and lose you a life. Along the way you occasionally have to save your partner by shooting the undead surrounding them, and you can collect bonus items such as coins and bonus lives by blasting barrels, boxes and other destructible items.

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At the end of every chapter you have a face-off with a classic big boss, such as a hellish security guard wielding a club of human skulls, and each has a weak spot that you have to continuously riddle with bullets to bring them down. Sophisticated it isn't. In fact, The House Of The Dead III is so devastatingly brainless, that any zombies looking for food would starve.

Definitely the best element of the game is the trigger-happy, ultra-violent killings - heads explode, limbs detach from fleshy bodies, and the blood splatters freely around the environments. There's an excellent array of creatures ranging from bulky, lurching corpses, to fast-moving axewielding cadaverous nutters, and they all split apart in a very satisfactory (and extremely gory) fashion.

Simply Not The Best

But, even with a light-gun, this is a hideously dated shooter that's difficult to recommend when you have Doom 3, Painkiller and a million other better titles available. Even the 2001 game Typing Of The Dead, where you have to kill the monsters by quickly spelling out words, is infinitely more engaging - and improves your keyboard skills. At least The House of the Dead III gives you an opportunity to dig that dust-covered light-gun out of the loft for one last dalliance with those not-so-friendly, neighbourhood zombies. HOTD RIP.

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