DANGERMAN Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 I don't think there's ever been a game that doesn't need explaining beyond its title as much as typing of the Dead Overkill. It's House of the Dead Overkill, the PS3 HD port of the Wii game, except rather than shoot zombies you type words. Each letter damages them a bit, so you could stagger them complete the word, phrase, or sentence and they die. Simple. Stupid And it is stupid, it was stupider in the original when the characters actually had keyboards and Dreamcasts strapped to them, but good god damn it was fun. Overkill was never the game House of the Dead 2 was but it was pretty good, probably better than House of the Dead 3. The typing gameplay skill works really well though, so well in fact I wonder if pretty much every game would work as a typing game. I'm not sure I like the humour of Overkill so much, maybe I never did, but there's very few jokes in it, it's mainly just swearing, which you know, we've put up with Sly for this long so that's not all bad, but I thought I remembered it being funny. What is nice is that the PS3 version had a couple of extra levels and they're in this, as is the ps4 version of the game, which might be a bit easy with a mouse. I've played through the first couple of levels and it's fun so far, in fact I've gone done a video innit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 I played through the first chapter. It's just as dumb as the original Oververkill - probably dumber by virtue of the typing - but it's fun, and some of the words it came up with made me laugh. I started out ok and I was dispatching zombies without a problem , but my typing got a bit ropey towards the end of the level. I forgot how much I liked the music in this game (although it can get a bit samey) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinn888 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 The humour is awful, i used to think that whilst playing the wii version. I want to pick this up, i never got to try the dreamcast version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I played a few levels last night, it is really fun at first because of how silly it all is, then my lack of typing skills shows through, and it's still pretty fun but a struggle for me. The longer words I'm not too bad at but the shorter ones it expects you to have finished typing them before I've even started sometimes! Good stuff though, nice surprise release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 It seems like a decent amount of effort has gone into the regional dictionaries. Pretty sure I caught a Father Ted reference in the strip club level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 Yeah I've had that. There's a bit of fuss around about the game only being 720p but aside from that I think they've done a pretty good job with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sambob Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 WHAT?! I personally cant type in anything less than 1080p, so for me this is a total nonstarter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 How Typing of the Dead: Overkill survived its studio's apocalypse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Dokuro Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Just wacthed Ben's video and did not know that HotD Overkill was part of the package. This is now on my wishlist. Also, Ben are you from Yorkshire? You sound kinda like Sly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 I've never been so offended. I'm from Cheshire/Manchester, a more refined and superior part of the world Thanks for watching it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Dokuro Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Typing of the Dead is getting some DLC called "Shakespeare of the Dead". The DLC adds co-op and a new mode dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 New DLC: "Football Manager of the Dead Lexicon Pack" is apparently now out, and free. It adds commentary lines from the Football Manager series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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