While the game obviously took some inspiration from AM2's Virtua Cop games, there were some differences. Anyway, the original House of the Dead was a relatively simple light-gun shooter for its time, constantly moving you from one area to another, shooting any & all monsters in your way, while also often reloading your gun by shooting away from the screen. Yeah, Overkill poked fun at that by having G tell Isaac Washington to never use the "Z word", but that was simply keeping true to the series' lore.
#THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 5 SERIES#
Curien, who has seemingly gone mad.įirst thing first, the House of the Dead franchise as a whole never uses the word "zombie", which is explained in a 2012 interview HotD website Website of the Dead did with series creator & director Takashi Oda in short, the monsters in the series are "copied" & "created" by science, not humans who were turned. Armed with only their six-shooter pistols & a book detailing the deadliest of these monsters, all named after the Major Arcana & given to them by the first scientist they find before he dies, Rogan & G enter Curien Mansion, hoping to not only save Sophie but also put a stop to Dr. Upon arrival the two see the scientists of the mansion being killed by creatures that look like the undead, & Sophie is taken away by a gargoyle-like creature.
Roy Curien where she works, so Rogan heads straight over with his AMS partner, an agent known only as "G". Sophie is saying that people are being attacked & dying at the mansion of biochemsit/geneticist Dr. Thomas Rogan, an agent of the organization AMS, receives a call from his fianceé Sophie Richards. Anyway, let's start it all with a frantic phone call for help.ĭecember 18, 1998. Yes, this does mean that I'll be skipping over The House of the Dead: Overkill, so sorry if that disappoints you.
Still, there are so many spin-offs in Sega's franchise that I want to simply focus on the main, numbered entries for this retrospective I'll bring up spin-offs & curious ports if necessary, though. Unlike RE, though, HotD would only see so many entries in its life. Yeah, the basic plot (& I mean basic) does sound slightly similar to Resident Evil on the surface, and both franchises would end up receiving their own crazy, semi-convoluted plotlines as sequels abounded.
Developed by Sega AM1, The House of the Dead, no relation to the 1860's Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel of the same name, was a Model 2 arcade light-gun rail shooter that took quarter-feeding players on a journey through a giant mansion which had been taken over by hordes of undead creatures, eventually stopping a mad scientist from unleashing his ultimate creation upon the world. At least, that's the only definitive date I could find, others simply say just 1997, so I'm going with that. While Capcom introduced survival horror to the world on Mavia the Japanese release of Biohazard, Sega would introduce its own iconic horror game to Japanese arcades on September 13, 1996.
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