The House of the Dead III
| The House of the Dead III | |
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Arcade flyer for The House of the Dead III.
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| Developer(s) | Wow Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Distributor(s) | Infogrames (PAL, Xbox port only) |
| Director(s) | Takashi Oda |
| Composer(s) | Eriko Sakurai |
| Series | The House of the Dead |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Wii, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Network) |
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| Genre(s) | Rail shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Sega Chihiro |
| Display | Horizontal orientation |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (Xbox) 70.72% (PS3) 63.63% (PC) 56.50% |
| Metacritic | (Xbox) 72/100 (PS3) 64/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame |    |
| Edge | 6/10 |
| EGM | 7.17/10 |
| Eurogamer | 3/10 (£40) 8/10 (£10) |
| Game Informer | 6.5/10 |
| GamePro | |
| Game Revolution | C+ |
| GameSpot | 6.4/10 |
| GameSpy | |
| GameZone | (PS3) 8/10 (Xbox) 7/10 |
| IGN | (Xbox) 8.1/10 (PS3) 6.5/10 |
| OXM (US) | 6.9/10 |
| The Cincinnati Enquirer | |
| The Digital Fix | 7/10 |
The House of the Dead III is a 2002 light gun arcade game with a horror zombie-survival theme, and the third installment to the House of the Dead series of video games, developed by Wow Entertainment and Sega. It was later ported to the Xbox in 2003, Microsoft Windows in 2005, the Wii in 2008 in a compilation with The House of the Dead 2, and PlayStation 3 in 2012 with PlayStation Move support. The game continues the story of the previous games and introduces new gameplay concepts such as story branching. The game's protagonist is Lisa Rogan, daughter of Thomas Rogan, the first game's main character, and players control Lisa (player 1) or G (player 2) During the final stage, players control Daniel Curien as a Player 2 character.
The game is set in post-apocalyptic 2019, twenty one years after the initial zombie outbreak of the Curien Mansion in the original The House of the Dead. As revealed in The House of the Dead 4, the zombie infestation has spread all over the world, reducing the world into desolation with the civilization collapsing. The EFI Facility Center, a research facility owned by Dr. Roy Curien, serves as the main setting of the story.
The main characters of the game are Lisa Rogan, the 19-year-old daughter of Thomas Rogan, who searches for her father's whereabouts after his disappearance in the EFI facility; and G, an old partner of Rogan who accompanied him during his original assignment of the Curien Mansion investigation. Rogan himself is a playable character in a brief prologue segment. Other characters include Daniel, Curien's son whose diagnosis with terminal illness eventually became Curien's primary motivation to develop the zombie mutation; Dan Taylor, a member of Rogan's commando who assists him in the prologue segment of the game; and The Wheel of Fate, a cyborg with electrokinesis abilities who is actually Curien himself, resurrected after his death at the hands of his masterpiece, The Magician.
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