The House of the Dead

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Description

The House of the Dead is a rail shooter. Go through the four chapters with branching paths 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 the player temporary health and weapon upgrades.

The Saturn version of the game contains two extra modes called Saturn Mode and Boss Mode. Saturn mode plays like the arcade game, but offers the player different characters to choose from. Character selection matters since they each have varying attributes such as their reload time and how much damage they can take before dying. The Boss Mode allows the player to fight one boss of their choosing or all of the game's four boss monsters consecutively.

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Alternate Titles

• "HOD" -- Common abbreviation
• "ザ ハウス オブ ザ デッド" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Gameplay feature: Multiple endings
• Games made into movies
• Genre: Light Gun Shooter
• Satakore (SegaSaturn Collection) releases
• Setting: 1990s
• Setting: Future now Past
• The House of the Dead series
• Theme: Haunted house
• Theme: Zombies

User Reviews

Not by Dostoevsky…..	SEGA Saturn	MasterMegid (902)
Run around a haunted house and deal with hilarious zombies	Windows	Katakis | カタキス (42836)
A great arcade shooter gets a horrible, horrible port.	SEGA Saturn	Ludicrous Gibs! (40)
A decent railed shooter, Dont expect anything more	Windows	Andrew Hartnett (2275)
A good game	Windows	James1 (244)

Critic Reviews

Hey Poor Player	Arcade	Sep 18, 2011		100
All Game Guide	Arcade	1998		90
Computer Games Magazine	Windows	Sep 30, 1998		80
Electric Playground	SEGA Saturn	Sep 14, 1998	7.5 out of 10	75
Reset	Windows	Oct, 1998	7 out of 10	70
Video Games	SEGA Saturn	Apr, 1998	68 out of 100	68
Game Over Online	Windows	Jun 12, 1998	51 out of 100	51
Game Revolution	SEGA Saturn	Sep 01, 1998	C	50
Shooterplanet	Windows	Jul 12, 2004	44 out of 100	44
PC Player (Denmark)	Windows	1998	3 out of 10	30

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Trivia

German version

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.

Movie

The movie version of The House of the Dead has next to nothing to do with its game counterpart, but it has an interesting twist: one of the survivors of the zombie rampage was named Curien (the villain of The House of the Dead), and AMS agents Rogan and G appear at the film's end.

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Related Web Sites

• Wikipedia: The House of the Dead (article in the open encyclopedia about the game)