The Typing of the Dead

Quick quiz: What do zombies hate most? Fire? Acid? Shotgun blasts to the face? Nope-as Typing of the Dead clearly illustrates, it's a wicked accuracy on home row.

Quick quiz: What do zombies hate most? Fire? Acid? Shotgun blasts to the face? Nope-as Typing of the Dead clearly illustrates, it's a wicked accuracy on home row. The ultra-weird Typing of the Dead, already out in Japan, takes Sega's hit light gun shooter House of the Dead 2, removes all the firearms and replaces them with deadly QWERTY keyboards. When monsters attack, you'll have to type the phrases that appear on the screen to fend off the flesh eaters; your performance determines your path through the creepy mansion. The higher your accuracy, the higher your score. Two players can type together, and you can upload your best times to the Internet.

But wait, it gets even stranger! Even the graphics themselves have been overhauled so that characters that once toted pistols now have Dreamcast consoles and giant batteries strapped to their backs like knapsacks, with a keyboard hanging from a neck strap in front of them.

The graphics already look great, and the sounds are arcade-perfect; all you need is the Dreamcast keyboard. Yes, it's bizarre, but it's also very challenging-and it's the only touch typing tutor that also features chunks of flesh and chainsaws.

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