Download The House of the Dead demo Free for Windows

For those of you who aren't familiar with the expression "rail shooter": unlike the usual first-person shooters such as Quake, Doom and so on, in House of the Dead you are not able to choose the directions yourself, only where the game wants you to go.

So all that is left to you is shooting on anything that moves :-) Think Rebel Assault on foot, and you'll have a good idea of what HOTD is about.

The story is rather simple. Your girlfriend Sarah leaves a message on your answering machine, telling you she has been captured by a guy called Curien. You, being the chip of the Hero, want to rush out to the place in order to free her. That is where the game begins.

As you are 'led' by the game around a place overcrowded with zombies and monsters of all kind, you will constantly be busy shooting, no more, no less. Even though the only weapon you have is a plain 9mm-pistol, that thing obviously leaves holes in bodies in gory manners that are definitely not suitable for kids. Let me say this way: "losing your head" gets a whole new meaning when playing The House of the Dead

Developer's Description

Research personnel are missing from the DBR Corporation, a clandestine laboratory funded by the government to conduct experiments on bioengineered life forms. A team of special operatives is dispatched to the laboratory to investigate; what they find are brain-sucking zombies running wild in an experiment gone awry.

You must rescue the DBR staff and fend off hordes of undead and other genetic mutations. Your high-powered hand gun will splatter these creatures, but you better shoot fast or they'll make you one of them! The game, a PC shooter with changing plot lines and varying scenarios, captures the realistic animation, resolution, and detail of the arcade hit.

There's gore galore, and two-player mode lets you share in the carnage. The game takes care of your character's walking, so you can concentrate on aiming and shooting.