And if that's not corny enough for your taste buds, your missing fianc e was last seen at that very same laboratory. You are one of the two special operatives sent in to fix the problem. How utterly convenient. In the arcades, House of the Dead shines. The game is based around a tried and true genre, the first person rail shooter.
Players walk through predetermined paths, pumping lead into anything that's dead.
You'll quickly come to find out that the lab that you have been sent to and the entire surrounding area is infested by a host of things that go bump in the night. Genetic mutations have taken over the entire playing field, and you're on their turf. Maggots dive at you from rotting corpses, lab monkeys slash at you, bats dive at you, zombies cut you up and if there was a kitchen sink, it would have been thrown at you. The action only pauses for seconds at a time to display a short cut-scene. These short breathers between episodes are the only chances you have throughout the game to get your nerves and epilepsy under control.