For a while, zombies were the talk of the media world, inserted into everything from films, to TV, to games and even books. From the hit series Walking Dead, to Valve's co-op shoot-em-up Left 4 Dead, to even a reworking of Jane Austen's classic novel entitled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it seemed it was nearly impossible to escape them. However, there was one zombie game which some will remember, but largely seemed to slip through the cracks: Typing of the Dead.

Originally a spin-off of the arcade classic House of the Dead, Typingof the Dead was basically the same thing: an on-rails shooter in which one or two players would battle against hordes of zombies in creepy mansions, or laboratories. Only what Typing did was remove the guns entirely and introduce words. The basic premise was that each zombie or enemy would have a word appear above them and when a player typed that word, preferably as quickly as they could, it would kill said zombie.

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About This Game 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. The Typing of the Dead: Overkill, a shooter/typing instructor hybrid, is available now for Windows PC. The game, which is based on Sega's The House of the Dead series, pits players and their.

The Typing of the Dead is an action game released in 1999 by SEGA Enterprises. The game was released for Macintosh, PC (Windows) and Dreamcast. The Typing of the Dead is a three-dimensional arcade game in which the player takes on the role of an agent who fights bloodthirsty zombies. The action takes place in Venice, overrun by monsters wanting. The core House of the Dead game underneath it, with its multiple endings in tact (like many of us got to see them), is diverting enough. But trying to kill a zombie by frantically typing. Typing of the Dead. 127 likes 1 talking about this. Typing of the Dead is a first-person rail shooter game, substituting shooting zombies with typing out words or phrases to kill them.

Now, a new mod has been released for it which takes that concept one step further by changing the words to reflect classic submissions from the Yahoo! Answers community, which is sadly being shut down soon. The modification will preserve the nonsensical and often hilarious questions and answers that users have been posting for years. Some of these have become notorious memes in their own rights, with such hits as, 'How is babby formed?' 'What is bitcoin and why?' 'I saw a man so beautiful I started crying?' and hundreds more like it being added to the mod.

On the one hand, it's a hilarious mod that takes the cheesy B-movie styling of the original game, and the spin-off, and gives it that internet meme vibe. On the other, it almost immortalizes the archives of Yahoo! Answers in a way that only games can. With a House of the Dead remake supposedly in the works, it looks as though the franchise may make a bit of a comeback at some point. The Typing of the Dead may have only been a small modification to the original series, but it certainly wasn't the last, with the likes of Zombie Revenge and The English of the Dead adding new flavors to the games.

Zombie mods are a tried and true method for extending a game's lifespan. Games such as Red Dead Redemption and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War are popular partly for adding hordes of the undead to their stories. With this new Typing of the Dead mod being released, maybe the world of gaming isn't ready to say goodbye to zombies just yet.

The Typing of the Dead Yahoo! Answers mod is available for free now on Steam.

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Source: PC Gamer

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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
• Full Steam integration
• Full and faithful port of the original PS3 edition of HOTD included in game
• 2-player co-op multiplayer coming shortly after launch as free DLC!

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