Recent reviews by Ping the pirate hobo [:]

Genuinely well balanced and enjoyable asymmetric pvp.

Literally *all* the development team had to do was generate a stable port of house of the dead to work in windows 7/8 from a windows xp version. People would actually be glad to pay for that.
This....I actually have never been so put off by people putting in genuine effort.
I have a feeling there was some pressure to include newer and updated art assets from the "overkill" remake, but at the very least the original game could be included. Surely sega still has rights to the Dreamcast version of Typing of the dead? Why not just include a patched version that installs easily in windows 7/8 environment ? Hell, it could be included as an easter egg.