Developer : Sega
Release date : 2003
Synopsis :
The House of the Dead III is a 2002 horror-themed light gun arcade game 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 was remade with typing controls as The Typing of the Dead 2 in 2008. 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 and Sophie Richards.
In 2019, 21 years after the events of The 1998 Curien Mansion Case, a zombie infestation has spread across the world, resulting in the collapse of human civilization and leaving the world in utter desolation. A paramilitary force led by retired AMS agent Thomas Rogan head to a desert wasteland in an unnamed U.S. state on a mission to infiltrate the EFI Research Facility, once owned by Dr. Curien, and investigate its connection to the current state of the world. During the course of the mission, all members of Rogan’s team are killed except for his second-in-command, Captain Dan Taylor. Proceeding with the mission, the two agents find the source they sought in a giant laboratory, but are attacked by Death, a gigantic mutant protecting the facility, who kills Taylor. Injured from the encounter, Rogan is assisted by an unknown individual before all communication with him is lost.
Two weeks later, on October 31, Rogan’s daughter, Lisa, and his former partner agent “G” travel to the facility to rescue him. While navigating through the facility, they fend off against hordes of undead creatures, before they encounter Death, whom they fight twice. Later, they fight a deformed mutant sloth named The Fool, and a mutated tendril-covered plant named The Sun. Along the way, Lisa muses to “G” how she has to live in the shadows of her well-known father and that she is often the subject of his comparison.
Throughout the game, flashbacks reveal Curien’s motivation in his obsession of studying matters of life and death that resulted in him triggering the Curien Mansion’s outbreak back in 1998; he was desperate in searching for a cure to treat his son, Daniel, who is suffering from a terminal illness. His increasingly unethical methods led him to believe he would be able to change the world for a better future by developing the mutation.
After more fights, Lisa and “G” reunite with Rogan. They are met by the same individual who approached Rogan in the prologue, revealed to be Daniel Curien, who laments his father’s experiments that destroyed the world. After Rogan reveals on how Daniel tended to him, G gets Rogan to safety, while Daniel and Lisa form an alliance to destroy an electrokinetic entity known as the Wheel of Fate. When they reach the giant laboratory, Daniel reveals that the Wheel of Fate is actually his father’s body, which underwent a 19-year resurrection process following his death by The Magician, adding that he hacked the program used in its creation some time prior to Lisa and G’s arrival, in order to prevent it from being released and destroying the world, saying that the future belongs to the people who are still alive and fighting. The two fight and manage to defeat the Wheel of Fate, which explodes.
Source : Wikipedia
