Reviewers appreciated the absurdist humor of the games format, especially in the unusual phrases the game generates during later levels. In Japan, Famitsu gave the Dreamcast version a score of 35 out of 40. But the curiosities don’t stop there, because voice acting is lonely … Lonely junk – just wonderful. The Typing of the Dead was regarded overall by critics as an enjoyable game, receiving 'favorable' reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. If you come across opponents, random words pop into the picture, which you have to type as quickly as possible in order to damage your opponent.

You walk through the game with a Dreamcast on your back and a keyboard in hand. Not only are you not using weapons, but the characters in the game also don’t use them either.

Technically, it is a spin-off from The House Of The Dead, another very good zombie rail shooter.īut it wasn’t until the introduction of typing that the gaming experience was really turned off. Where does it come from? Typing Of The Dead is an arcade game from 1999. What is that? Tired of shooting zombies and other monsters all the time? Neither do we, but it was still funny when we came across the great alternative “Typing Of The Dead”. Here you have to write as fast as possible to defeat the opponents. While the latter is a standard light gun shooter, Typing replaces the. This version was a revision of The House of the Dead III, and has only been released in Japan and only for PC as of 2008. In most zombie games you have to shoot your opponents, but not in Typing Of The Dead. The Typing of the Dead 2, the sequel game to The Typing of the Dead, is an arcade game (ported to Microsoft Windows).

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