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House of the Dead III for Windows

  • Trial version

  • In English
  • 3.7

    (1763)
  • Security Status

Swati Mishra
Swati MishraUpdated 10 years ago

A tiny taste of this zombie shoot'em up

Sega's House of the Dead franchise first blasted its way into arcades in 1996, long before zombies became the video game mainstay they are today. These light-gun shooters were incredibly popular, with their physical peripherals still proving a real draw at a time when home consoles were beginning to emerge as dominant.

Before they were cool

This third installment, House of the Dead III, was no exception. The arcade game had a plastic pump action shotgun for you to blast the onscreen zombies, adding a sense of involvement that you just couldn't find on a home system. Problematically, however, none of this tactile appeal translates to the PC version.

Moving a cursor around the screen with a mouse or controller (assuming you are not one of the handful of people out there with a PC light gun) does nothing to reproduce the joy of the arcade game. While this port does make some interesting additions to help make the game feel more involved (your character’s gun and hands are modeled on screen), it just cannot make up for what has been lost.

Head popping

Technically, though, there is nothing wrong with this port. It looks good and runs well, with enough video options to ensure that even if you are playing on an old, none-gaming PC you should be able to find some way to run it. Once that’s done, you can start blasting apart zombies however you fancy, and enjoying the satisfyingly graphic, head-popping animations.

Unfortunately, even as a trail, this offers very little actual game. It is a teasingly tiny taster of the full product that doesn’t even let you finish the prologue. If you just want to make sure House of the Dead III will run on your machine then it is certainly worth a go, otherwise you will find it disappointingly short.

Restricted

Technically competent and kind of fun, this House of the Dead III Trial unfortunately comes up lacking thanks to its brevity and the concessions that have had to be made to bring it in to the home.

From the deepest, darkest corners, carnivorous cadavers and zombies have returned to haunt your every move.

In The House of the Dead III, players defy the undead with shotgun in hand as they explore a post-apocalyptic wasteland of unrelenting terror.

Fans of the series will thrill to beautifully rendered gore, time-sensitive one or two-player gameplay and a wide variety of branching paths.

Gamers take out wave after wave of horrific zombies as they travel different routes and advance the storyline, uncovering new secrets and hidden areas along the way. And the all-new shotgun comes in handy when surrounded by an army of festering undead.

Players must use it wisely to take out multiple enemies in a single blast as they plough their way through the most exhilarating nightmare yet.

PROS

  • Satisfying destroying zombies
  • Fun for Sega arcade nostalgics

CONS

  • Very dated
  • Too easy
  • Short

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House of the Dead III for PC

  • Trial version

  • In English
  • 3.7

    (1763)
  • Security Status


User reviews about House of the Dead III

  • Rexece Gaming

    by Rexece Gaming

    NICE GAME AT FIRST ITS TOO EASY BUT BY TIME IT GETS MORE AND MORE EXCITING.

  • Gael Suarez

    by Gael Suarez

    Amazing.
    This game was my childhood and I love playing it no matter the graphics but I do hate that it is a trial wish it could be the full game More

  • Anonymous

    by Anonymous

    THE HOUSE OF HTE DEAD 3.
    ITS SO SCARY THERE......I CANT CHASE THEM THE IF I CANT CHASE THEM I WILL KILL THEM ALL IN THE GAME..AND I WILL I WILL. More


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