This success not only propelled the game to popularity but the game found its way to Dreamcast, Windows, and even a remastered version for the Nintendo Wii, years after its original release.
Mysterious sightings and events start occurring in the city of Venice, upon further investigation you discover that a zombie outbreak is what is actually happening. Without giving any spoilers, the conclusion to the game itself is not new, or groundbreaking by any means, but the journey is satisfying enough to make up for it.
The game moves you around either as Agent James Taylor or Gary Stewart Player 1 or Player 2 , and your job is to shoot zombies in the brain. It is a fast-paced, gory, horror, first-person shooter that relies on reflexes and aims to be played.
While the main proposal of the game, kill zombies, is pretty simple, The House of The Dead 2 keeps the experience fresh with multiple types of zombies, that pose unique challenges, and different boss fights.
Additionally, the game was ahead of its time, because it provided multiple endings of your journey depending on your choices, and specific actions.
Ending change based on the game being completed alone, or in co-op, if both players beat the last boss, the number of continues utilized and the points achieved in each level, this mechanic ensures that players have a reason to replay the game. Ultimately, this game is fun and provides hours of entertainment.
The graphics might look dated to the average gamer in , but to provide a fair description, we need to look at what it accomplished at the time, and for the time this was a very good-looking game. If you were ever a fan of arcade games, or want to scratch the co-op nostalgia The House of The Dead 2, will be nothing more than an entertaining game. Yet, if you enjoyed similar titles such as Killing Floor: Double Feature, Time Crisis , or zombie modes from the Call of Duty series, this title is right up your wheelhouse.
Just keep in mind, it served as a starting point for those franchises, and it is a simpler, older, less detailed game than the ones it helped inspire. Back in the s when sideburns were in vogue, the Queen was still quite hip hard to believe we know and Slade had only re-released Merry Christmas three times, there was a car known as the Triumph Stag. It was a stunning car, a veritable totty-magnet if you will, and the public loved it.
Loved it, that is, until a slight oversight in the design caused the engine to explode within a few thousand miles. A few fires, many returns and a lot of dented egos later, the Stag was consigned to the drawing board and only a few hundred of them survive today; the pride and joy of some bearded bloke in Essex.
Had someone at Triumph taken the Stag for a serious test drive before it was launched all this could have been avoided. Enter Sega, stage left You see, while House Of The Dead 2 is almost a carbon copy of the coin-op and the console version, somebody somewhere didn't play the game the way most PC players will.
And that's with a bloody mouse. This is coming in September, but until then we get the coin-op with all the frustration of using a mouse. The game itself is the usual 'scary-scary-horror-brooding' affair, although the green-blooded zombies are none too impressive with little in the way of gore. If you added some stale smoke, a load of screaming school kids and some dodgy neon lights, it would feel like you were in a seaside arcade.
Cue the obvious 'finding the button' jokes. If you have a good surround sound system and can get some mates round for a game, then a Saturday night will never be the same you're liable to be single in no time. The boss monsters become weirder, and the onslaught becomes almost apocalyptic. It's kind ot like running through a shopping centre on acid. It's a cop-out, but we've given two scores to HOTD 2. One when playing with a light-gun, and one without. While we all understand the pressure on companies to release games as soon as they're ready, it is a foolish move to release it before the light-gun is available.
In fairness, the light-gun is being developed by a third party, so Empire has little control over it. But discretion is the better part of valour. Something Triumph learnt to its cost - no doubt Empire will too. After all, a light gun game isn't the same without a light gun, is it?
Some of us had a lot of hassles calibrating either gun with HOTD2. Most of the gaming sessions had problems, from the occasional shot wandering an inch away from where you're aiming to not recognizing the gun at all this usually happened when aiming for the lower-right corner of the calibration screen. Some reviewers only got the guns to work properly if they sat just right just right meaning perfectly lined up with the TV screen being only three feet away, something we've clearly learned as children will cause nearsightedness, premature baldness and impo-tency Other reviewers had no troubles at all.
There's no rhyme or reason to any of it. Here are two versions of my review, one for my office TV on which I was able to calibrate the light guns properly , and another from my home TV on which I was not. Shoe review 1 without calibration problems : Boy does this game rock. HOTD2 is an exciting, fast-paced shoot-'em-up. The combination of surprise attacks, quick and slow monsters and larger-than-life bosses keep you on your toes at all times.
Sure the dialogue, story line and voice acting have more cheese than Wisconsin and a season of Global Groove combined.
You have to be careful not to hit any innocent civilian, and rescuing them from the clutches of the monsters often rewards you with power-ups or, better yet, new paths to follow. This makes the game somewhat replayable as you can do something different e. As well as the original arcade modes, there is plenty of extra effects. There are 5 game modes including Arcade and Boss, 12 different kinds of zombies including the chainsaw wielding Max and the disgusting Ebitan.
End-level bosses are appropriately difficult to kill, although some of them are far too easy to dispose of once you find their weak spots. With an excellent co-operative multi-play option across LAN and 6 chapters of mayhem, HOTD2 is a much more attractive, varied, and longer game than the original. Be warned, though: near-superhuman reflexes and tenacity are prerequisites to finishing one of the best rail shooters ever made.
There are even plot twists to keep things interesting, as well as multiple endings. Screenshots from MobyGames. Triks -1 point. Dank Memer -3 points. I followed the steps to get it to work, and it did, but then the next day it's now saying 'Insert CD'. What do I need to do now? KsE 0 point. Yo Guys The game always starts on the second monitor instead of my 'main'. Any way to fix this? I can't even run it in window mode?
How I actually ran the game. Leave the rom mounted. Use dgvoodoo to run the game in high resolution. Triks 0 point. Triks 1 point. I got the game to run, atleast for me : - Download the game file - Make a folder ex. Run it. Kotellell 0 point. Affan 1 point. I have only the following. Sur 1res3 0 point. Asad 0 point. Paing Paing 1 point. Manoj 1 point. Collin 0 point. Ronnel Ancheta -2 points.
Did anyone manage to get the game to run after the installation? Every time I click on the Hod2. I've tried running on compatibility mode but again nothing happens. Even the NOCD crack doesn't seem to work. I extracted the files to the same directory I installed the game but an error message appears whenever I click on the crack.
Emmanuel 1 point. Only one me 2 points. Mike Chavez 1 point. Unknown Help 0 point. Danny Stewart 0 point. The thing that made me surprised was the gun controller. It didn't need Guncon or anything like that. No saben si hay para Android? Quisiera jugar en mi celular pero no encuentro donde descargar el juego. TheCrnMage 24 points. For those who have trouble, it requires some advance computer knowledge. So I'm here to help. Takes 21 to 30 minutes to download 2. Find downloads, find installed rar.
You need Winrar archiver 3. Create a folder ex, "House of the Dead 2 not broken version" 4. Drag and drop rar folder in 5. Wait, and see programs 7. Click folder, find House of the Dead 2.
Go to my computer or ThisPC Find your drive or find the game, you will see icon and game name Close program, re open the program again Click start. This version has everything unlocked! LIke a premium deluxe version. I'm "dead" pun serious.
Very generous too. How many quarters or card swipes we could've spent?
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