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The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
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.
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October 29, 2013
12 years and 325 days ago
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Very Positive4,103 reviews87.8%
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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
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
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