House of the Dead: Overkill was a Wii game that not only once held a fairly dubious world record, but also had a very old-school Sega sense of humour that was sadly overlooked. So it’s nothing short of a shock to have people waking up yesterday to find the game’s been ported to the PC. With Sega making as little a fuss as possible.
Example: the press release announcing the game wasn’t sent out until the day after it had already hit online stores!
An even nicer surprise is that it’s now a better game.
Why? Because it ditches the light-gun mechanics of the Wii version and reverts to a form of… death by touch-typing, the kind first seen in Overkill’s predecessor, 1999’s Typing of the Dead.
Here’s some footage of the PC version in action, courtesy of Miya:
The game’s $12.50 on Steam. It’s totally worth it.
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11 responses to “Sega Forgets To Tell Anyone It Released An Awesome New PC Game”
yay!
Bought it but will probably wait a bit before downloading it. Didn’t realise it was just over 7 gigs
Not sure about the typing thing but I have this game one the wii and ps3. The old school red/blue 3D glasses with the PS3 makes this grind house game a blast. Each friend I have cranked it up with has been surprised by how much fun it is and gone and bought it from a bargain bin. Very tongue in cheek humour but a blast for sure.
Words cannot explain how badly I need this in my life.
I see what you did there….
Oh shit. I didn’t!
I picked this up for $8 from greenmangaming and it’s a lot of fun.
score, thanks for that, downloading it now!
This was my game of the year when it was released. The lightgun games were the only reason to buy a Wii.
I just assumed it was the original pc/dc typing of the dead. Overkill was the most f-ed up game I have ever played. That final level! Do you have to type Oedipus over and over?
Was it the world record for swearing?