Key Highlights
- Anderson, who did big things on screen for fellow zombie franchise classic Resident Evil.
- First released in 1997, The House of the Dead was a fast-paced, horror shooter with a groundbreaking zombie/creature premise.
- That included the innovation of giving its undead villains the ability to run, something that inspired films from Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake to Marc Forster-directed World War Z.
- It was The House of the Dead that first evolved the flesh-eaters from the lumbering stumblers that George Romero brought to life in his movies.
- In the arcade game, players take on the role of AMS agents, a government agency tasked with thwarting the conspiracies of organizations that threaten the world.
