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Use your words, not your light gun
10:39 PM on 04.21.2007, William Haley 21 comments

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I'm not sure why this week is zombie week, but as long as it has nothing to do with an impending outbreak of some incurable disease, I don't really care. Anyway, if you've ever wanted to make dead the undead but also wanted to better your WPM at the same time, now's your chance. Sega has unveiled Typing of the Dead 2 for the PC. If you missed out on the original, and let's face it, you did, this will be the perfect opportunity to ... okay, seriously, it's a game where you kill zombies by typing words. What more needs to be said?
 
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GuitarAtomik at 04/22/2007 00:02
I have the first one on DC as well. I hope they have the crazy ass phrases in this one like the 1st one did. I remember one of them was along the lines of:

"Whales are the Enemy!"

Or some shit like that. Good stuff.
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deiga-the-semivaliant at 04/22/2007 00:39
This looks fun as hell. I've always enjoyed typing games.
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xrayne446 at 04/22/2007 00:54
THIS IS AWESOME!!! i wish i had this in middle school when i had to raise my typing speed by 40 words per minute!
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The-Excel at 04/22/2007 00:55
So is it going to be based on House of the Dead III or what?
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th0mas28 at 04/22/2007 02:03
They need to be wearing the keyboards!!! The first game was definitely one of the best games in its genre.
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John Martone at 04/22/2007 02:52
Silly murder simulators. Its games like this that corrupt our youth.
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Namelessted at 04/22/2007 04:55
now we just need a game where you kill zombies by saying words into a mic. "pew pew pew"
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joepekula at 04/22/2007 08:26
Since the Dreamcast version was announced, I always considered this to be one of the most bizarre concepts for a video game ever.
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ScarCeLLe13 at 04/22/2007 09:20
i was just playing this at tullys restaurant. It was mad fun, but it didnt have a machine gun but it had just a shot gun
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OldschoolVgamer at 04/22/2007 11:31
Typing of the Dead II, huh? Should be interesting...

I'd probably kick ass at it. Can type between 53 and 72 WPM...
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Dexter345 at 04/22/2007 11:51
No way we missed out on Typing of the Dead 1. Either Niero or Fronz made us play it awhile back.
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ExpertPenguin at 04/22/2007 13:54
Oh....you're KIDDING.

..and it's based on HotD3?!

I still play the original every now and then on DC AND PC.

I swear, if there's an online mode like the first one, it's on.

Oh it is ON. Who's with me?
OldschoolVgamer's Avatar
OldschoolVgamer at 04/22/2007 14:19
Hell yeah EP! I'll be nailing some typing n00bs left and right.
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Nick Chester at 04/22/2007 14:28
Typing of the Dead II has just been put on my "most wanted" list, along with BioShock, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Metroid Prime 3, GTA4, Ratchet and Clank Future, Left 4 Dead, The Darkness, etc.

At least ToTD is educational.
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BlindsideDork at 04/22/2007 14:30
What?! that is crazy...do you really want to play agame that requires you to type out"iwanktalksdljfl simgaslkdnflinsldinf" or "superkalafragilisticism-now" to kill one zombie? HAHA
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar
s0lesurviv0r at 04/22/2007 16:01
Oh yea, I'm going Mavis Beacon on that zombie ass!
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brad drac at 04/22/2007 19:22
-> Blindside: No, most of the time you're typing out actual words, which is a lot easier. For a sample of what it's like, play Ys typing tutor. It's freeware and fun.
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brad drac at 04/22/2007 19:24
Uh.. that was actually a pretty bad link to it. Actual page here.
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