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
• 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 (39830)
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 (2292)
A good game	Windows	James1 (247)

Critic Reviews

PC Jeux	Windows	Aug, 1998	83 out of 100	83
Joystick (French)	SEGA Saturn	May, 1998	83 out of 100	83
GameSpot	SEGA Saturn	Apr 23, 1998	7.3 out of 10	73
VicioJuegos.com	SEGA Saturn	Oct 20, 2012	70 out of 100	70
SEGA-Mag (Objectif-SEGA)	SEGA Saturn	2008	7 out of 10	70
Gaming Entertainment Monthly	Windows	Jan 01, 2001	68 out of 100	68
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

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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)