(Sega AM1's universe)
The Sam series is where it all got started. The rotting-zombie [sic] stagger, the dangling intestines, the lovely cyanotic blue-- in some ways I consider it to be my masterpiece.
The House of the Dead Sega Saturn manual.
Type A-1, named Sam (サム, Samu), is a bald, shirtless humanoid creature with exposed entrails. He is an enemy in The House of the Dead and its 2022 remake.
A defective being produced by Dr. Curien's BioReactor machine, Sam was encountered by AMS agents during a 1998 bioterror incident at the Curien Mansion. He was characterized by his bite attacks, low resilience, and relationship to the A-type creatures Neil and Cyril. His weak point, like other humanoid creatures, was his head.
Appearance[]
Sam's appearance differs among various versions of The House of the Dead.
On the arcade version, Sam is a pale-skinned, shirtless creature with two gouges on his torso; the largest exposes part of his intestines. He wears blue pants, with the right leg being partially tattered and he doesn't wear a belt. He's got half his face skinned, revealing his facial muscles and his teeth. He has a blank white right eye, but his left eye is swollen, with nerves bouncing and reddish.
On the PC and the Sega Saturn ports of the game, Sam wears brown shoes and his pants are not torn. The right side of his face is bloody, as is opposite sides of his torso.
In the remake, his bowels are rotten. His pants are very dirty, route and having the top of the pants dirty with green slime. His skin is pale gray, has sebum and has several small holes of rotten open meat. The left side of his face is rotten now along with some of the jaw bone visible. It leaks from his exposed intestines a green slime. Now, half of his right eye is black with a light gray iris. And now his swollen eye is very dilated and very reddish with his veins swelled.
Gameplay[]
The House of the Dead[]
The most common enemy encountered in the game, Sam primarily attacks by biting. He often appears in groups, surrounding the player if he or she is not careful.[1][excerpt 1] However, Sam is among the weakest of the humanoid creatures, dying with a single headshot; this makes him a low threat, especially to experienced players.
The House of the Dead: Remake[]
Normally, his only attack is biting the player. There can be exceptions to this, mostly due to placement, for example, in Chapter 2, he will swing at the player with his arms when encountered behind a window near the start of the chapter. Because normally he can only bite the player, he will always die once his head is completely removed.
Trivia[]
Sam's unused "neozom" model.
- In the prototype of The House of the Dead's arcade version, The House of Dead, the attract mode features Sam attacking the camera after a slow zooming shot to the Curien Mansion's front door.
- An unused version of Sam, with the filename neozom, can be found in the arcade game's data. This model features large scratches instead of open flesh wounds.
- David from The House of the Dead 2 and The House of the Dead 4 is similar to Sam in appearance.
- If the player takes the alternate route through the Curien Mansion's front door, and shoots the right Saruzou inside, two Sams will be seen attacking a DBR researcher. If the Sam closest to the researcher is shot in the chest, he will clutch that part of his body, vomit, and make a unique sound. No other Sam in the game exhibits this behavior.
Gallery[]
The House of the Dead[]
Concept artwork[]
Official artwork[]
Guidebook scans[]
Other media[]
Sources[]
- Excerpts
- ↑ Excerpt from The House of the Dead Dennou Shinan: Dr. Curien no Houkoku Sho, p.10:
"最も多く出没するゾンビ。どこにでも生息し、住み着いてしまう。集団で出没することが多く、油断すると囲まれることも。基本的には右の容姿をしているが、見た目の違う種もあり。主な攻撃方法は噛みつきである。"
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