The Typing of the Dead: Overkill

60/100

Released

October 28, 2013

Developer

Modern Dreams

Publisher

Sega

Age Rating

Co-op Features

PC (Windows)

Online Co-op

2 players max

About

Developed by Modern Dreams and published by Sega, The Typing of the Dead: Overkill is a Shooter game that came out in 2013 for PC (Windows).

You can play together using Online co-op (up to 2 players).

Description

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 puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county. Blast pieces out of the zombie horde across 9 stages, one keystroke at a time, in order to save you and a friends life as you work to uncover the mystery behind the outbreak.

Features:

- Randomised kill-words to make every game experience unique;

- Your keyboard is the weapon – type bullet holes into those zombie hordes!

- Three difficulty levels included to test your typing skills to the max as well as a special ‘hardcore’ level for true keyboard warriors!

- Redefined HOTD gameplay to complement the new typing mechanics;

- Two-Player co-op multiplayer

- Full Steam integration

- Full and faithful port of the original PS3 edition of HOTD included in game

- Plus more to come

Story

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.