Sega announces English of the Dead for the DS (joystiq.com)

[7th lutz]

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/07/sega-announces-english-of-the-dead-for-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.

I hope North America will be getting a form of the game with it using different languages.

[CreamSoda]

A very cool idea, if it hits the US I would definetly buy a copy. :)

[Icarus Moonsight]

Too bad it most likely won't come out here. There are people here that sorely need it. Calm much beef, it would. ;)

[Mr.collection]

Yes their needs to be a African-American English version so you have translate.
I'm gonna pop a cap in yo' ass, to
I am going to shoot you.

If they made a spanish one I would buy it.

[Overbite]

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/56/fuckdr0.jpg

[Julio III]

Overbite! Gosh

And wow, sounds interesting. A natural follow up to the wackiness that is Typing of the Dead

[ClassicGameTrader]

Uhhhh, what is that? Don't tell me that's how people learn to speak English in Japan!!!!



http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/56/fuckdr0.jpg

[Jorpho]

That's a pretty high-quality photoshopping job there, what with the reflection off the page. (It is a photoshopping job, right? Of course it is. Right? Right.)

Of course, English of the Dead sounds more like a tutorial for learning Elizabethan tongues, or for those who want to read Beowulf in its original unadapted form.

Anyway, why House of the Dead 2 again ? Hasn't it been dragged around enough already? HOTD3 is already being used as the basis of TOTD2, after all. (And I sure hope we get TOTD2 for the PC.) Heck, I wouldn't even mind seeing HOTD1 again.

[Overbite]

No, its real. It came with a CD guide. I heard clips of it before, let me see if I can find them.

[Overbite]

CLIPS

http://maritan.ytmnd.com/



here are some more scans though

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9987/017is4.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6173/maritan01zb5.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7626/maritan03ei4.jpg
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9721/maritan04fy0.jpg

[jupitersj]

haha....holy crap is that awesome.

[dementia_]

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9721/maritan04fy0.jpg

I love how Rumsfeld and Bush Jr. are visible there cheering her on.

[Jorpho]

Oh my. I didn't catch on that those were all lines from Full Metal Jacket.

...So I guess there is demand for a colorful and instructive guide to learning the meaning and usage of the phrases from that movie? That's slightly understandable, I guess.