The Typing of the Dead: Overkill
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience! This gruesome shooter…
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is a shooter developed by Modern Dreams, released 29 October 2013 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is a shooter game developed by Modern Dreams and released in 2013. It was published by Sega. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 1991, rookie AMS agent G and Detective Isaac Washington investigate disappearances and a mutant outbreak in Bayou City, Louisiana. They storm the mansion of Papa Caesar, a crime lord who killed Isaac's father. Caesar flees, while disabled scientist Jasper Guns, whom Caesar used, is mutated after injecting himself with an unknown substance. After defeating Jasper, G and Isaac meet his sister, stripper Varla Guns, who seeks revenge on Caesar.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, educational and horror. It supports multiplayer for up to 2 players online, and includes co-op. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 33 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The House of the Dead series
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is the 25th of 36 entries we hold in the The House of the Dead series. It arrived 6 months after The House of the Dead: Overkill - The Lost Reels. The next entry was The Typing of the Dead: Overkill - Shakespeare DLC in 2013. Its critic score of 70 is 5 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is The House of the Dead: Overkill at 82.
How it was received
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Dual Core processor, 2 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 6450, NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 or Intel Integrated Graphics HD 3000. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill launched on 29 October 2013, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut and The Stanley Parable. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Typing of the Dead: Overkill yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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