House of the Dead is your basic rail shooter. Go through the branching levels and kill all the zombies, avoid killing the humans and rescue the girl. Shooting various special targets along the way or in a certain time period give you temporary health and weapon upgrades.

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Alternate Titles

"HOD" -- Informal short title

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User Reviews

A great arcade shooter gets a horrible, horrible port.	SEGA Saturn	Ludicrous Gibs! (40)
Run around a haunted house and deal with hilarious zombies	Windows	Black Wolf (37274)
A decent railed shooter, Dont expect anything more	Windows	Andrew Hartnett (2248)
A good game	Windows	James1 (248)

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The Press Says

Computer Games Magazine	Windows	Sep 30, 1998		80
PC Zone	Windows	Aug 13, 2001	7.6 out of 10	76
Svenska PC Gamer	Windows	Sep, 1998	74 out of 100	74
GameSpot	SEGA Saturn	Apr 23, 1998	7.3 out of 10	73
The Video Game Critic	SEGA Saturn	Nov 02, 2003	B-	67
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Windows	Jun 16, 1998	60 out of 100	60
Game Revolution	SEGA Saturn	Sep 01, 1998	C	50
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 1998	37 out of 100	37
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 1998	34 out of 100	34
PC Player (Denmark)	Windows	1998	3 out of 10	30

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Trivia

On January 30, 1999, The House of the Dead was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

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