Sega announces 'English of the Dead' for DS

by Scott Jon Siegel { Feb 7th 2008 at 9:00AM }

Fans of the quirky Dreamcast classic Typing of the Dead will be elated to hear that Sega has not abandoned its sense of humor (or its love of zombie education). Via the latest issue of Famitsu Weekly comes news that Sega is developing English of the Dead for the Nintendo DS.

As you might guess, English of the Dead is a language training game, along the lines of Ubisoft's My French Coach. Using a version of House of the Dead 2 ported to DS (!), the game challenges players to correctly translate words into English from Japanese in order to ward off attacking zombies. Other modes include zombies that speak English out loud, where players must translate what they're saying.

While this exact game probably won't find its way to the States, it would be amazing if Sega were to use the same premise and apply it to other languages (like French of the Dead, which we've conceptualized above). We'll keep our fingers crossed. In the meantime, check out the Famitsu scans after the break.

[Via DS Fanboy]

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Tags: education, english-of-the-dead, house-of-the-dead, houseofthedead, sega, typingofthedead

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Seroth @ Feb 7th 2008 9:13AM

Sega has proven that zombies are the best teachers around. Typing of the Dead has greatly improved my typing skills.

fanguad @ Feb 7th 2008 9:17AM

If they would exactly reverse it, I would buy it. Zombie games are meh, IMO, but anything to practice my Japanese language skills would be fantastic.

valdemiro @ Feb 7th 2008 9:17AM

Judging from the way some kids type on messageboards maybe they SHOULD bring this to the States.

/Get off my lawn!

iofthestorm @ Feb 7th 2008 6:53PM

stfu n00|3 theirs nuth1n r0ng wit mai 3ngl15h!11!111eleventyone

samfish @ Feb 7th 2008 9:26AM

I would buy a Japanese language version if I could.

Archaic @ Feb 7th 2008 9:40AM

Agreed. Bring us Japanese of the Dead!

ThornedVenom @ Feb 7th 2008 10:03AM

Putain elle dechire trop l'image. XD

Anyways, who wants to create racial controversy with Ebonics of the Dead?

Ben @ Feb 7th 2008 10:26AM

Where's my Engrish of the Stiffies?

xGeneral DEATHx @ Feb 7th 2008 11:20AM

I was going to try and avoid the Engrish reference, until YOU jumped in...

+1 for you.

"You! Invaders! Get you the hot bullets of shotgun to die!"

Cal @ Feb 7th 2008 11:26AM

I love typing of the dead. I would definitely buy a Japanese of the Dead, or a Spanish of the dead, or My Dead French Tutor

WiNG @ Feb 7th 2008 11:58AM

Seriously, I could never type for jack.

I bought Typing of the Dead for my Dreamcast sitting in the closet, and now I can touch type with the best of them.

There is seriously no motivation for learning to type correctly like "If I don't hit that exclamation mark, I'm losing a limb!"

Hell they should make a Quantum Physics of the Dead.

waynski1457 @ Feb 7th 2008 12:26PM

That would be an instant buy for me if, like fanguad said, it was reversed.

I love totd to death (no pun intended) and still play it any time i feel my typing is slouching. hell, im going to play it right now!

Grimmus @ Feb 7th 2008 2:31PM

Finishing TotD should be a requirement for anyone and everyone before they're allowed to chat online; God knows there are about a billion people who could use the lessons.

Ghen @ Feb 7th 2008 3:33PM

How do you say "Suffer like G did" in Japanese?

Jigsaw @ Feb 7th 2008 3:39PM

This looks totally awesome. I'm so getting this.

Lucky @ Feb 7th 2008 4:28PM

I'd love some "German of the Dead" my self.

X3

Stevo @ Feb 7th 2008 10:36PM

"It just wants you eat the brain"

Thanks google

t_m @ Feb 8th 2008 10:12AM

there are SO MANY educational DS titles here in Japan. Almost as many as games. About 20 different Kanji ones, 100s of different TOEIC and TOEFL english ones, some really cool travel guide ones, even ones about business manners!

I really wish they'd bring a few out in other countries.. specifically the ones for learning japanese and a guide to tokyo/japan would be very useful...