Shooting an enemy with a lightgun pales in comparison to besting a foe by hammering 'finger of scorn' or 'bed-wetting' into the keyboard the development team apparently included Red Dwarf fans, and as such dropping a zombie by entering 'smeg-head' is now high upon my list of gaming delights.Ĭontrols and minor graphical alterations aside, TOTD is a direct re-tread of HOTD2, and thus sees the player facing down hoards under direction of the mysterious Goldman, who thankfully still uses 'so-bad-it's good' voice-acting as a weapon of mass destruction (including utterances which easily rank alongside Barry's all-time classic offerings in 'Resident Evil'.).Ĭertainly as intense and as difficult as the light-gun original, TOTD is surprisingly even more rewarding to play whilst a certain level of touch-typing competency is a definite prerequisite the game's entertaining tutorial modes should bring the player up to scratch in a way that 'Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing' could never hope to match (Ms.
It is in the content of the linguistic targets that the game's true genius is found, providing a constant injection of quintessentially English humour.
Mistakes are costly, requiring the entire expression to be entered from scratch. Sega evidently noticed this travesty and produced a game the qwerty keyboard had waited 125 years for: 'Typing of the Dead'.Īlong with it's sequel, TOTD must surely be the only coin-op in the world equipped with twin keyboards ported to the Dreamcast in 2000 this brilliantly unusual offering is best described as a mod, rather than a remake, of the on-rails light-gun zombie blaster 'The House of the Dead 2'.īereft of a lightgun, responsibility for aiming and reloading is removed entirely from the player, instead advancing foes carry words and phrases which must be swiftly and accurately typed every keystroke fires a shot, with only concurrent correct entries finding their mark. Speed aside, typing accuracy is a skill generally of only marginal benefit to text adventurers.
Whilst fast fingers have long been a prerequisite for video-gamers, keyboarding skills have enjoyed a relatively dim limelight, one shone mainly upon Spectrum enthusiasts.
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