When comparing The Typing of The Dead: Overkill vs Jamestown, the Slant community recommends Jamestown for most people. In the question“What are the best games that will work on a laptop with only keyboard controls?” Jamestown is ranked 12th while The Typing of The Dead: Overkill is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Jamestown is:
To share the fun with your friends is easy through the multiplayer mode that is offered in Jamestown.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Actually requires some strategy
While words per minute type counts for a lot in the game, the player does need to keep track of what mutants are moving faster towards them and plan out attacks accordingly. This means that the player needs to access the situation to then type out the word or words for the mutant they deam the most immediate threat. This makes for a lot of fun as it requires some skill with gaming by judging what the game is throwing at you, which can be a lot.
Pro Fun multiplayer mode
To share the fun with your friends is easy through the multiplayer mode that is offered in Jamestown.
Pro Starts off easy
The difficulty curve is fair and can be scaled to suit your needs.
Pro Multiple ship/character choices
There are several characters and their ships to choose from which allows for one to change the gameplay up.
Cons
Con Poor graphics
Originally released for the Dreamcast, this game does show its age. While this is a port of the Wii version,simply the graphics look poor. Textures and models look pretty poor, though that does mean the game is not that demanding, so is good for people with low end hardware.
Con Forced to play higher difficulty settings
In order to unlock new levels you "have" to play the higher difficulty setting on all previous levels.