The game isn’t a masterpiece but is enjoyable throughout, the only terrible and sore part of the experience is the disturbingly bad voice-acting, it just pops out of the screen every time you hear it, and you can’t unnoticed it. The graphics might look dated to the average gamer in 2021, 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. Ultimately, this game is fun and provides hours of entertainment. 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. 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.Īdditionally, the game was ahead of its time, because it provided multiple endings of your journey depending on your choices, and specific actions. It is a fast-paced, gory, horror, first-person shooter that relies on reflexes and aims to be played. 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. Like the brainless zombies, The House of the Dead 2, doesn’t provide puzzles, or intellectual challenges, and that is fine because the game delivers exactly what it set out to deliver. 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. It is your, and your partner’s job to investigate this outbreak and its origins.

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. Story-wise the game doesn’t stray too far away from other popular zombie outbreaks portrayed in modern media. This success not only propelled the game to popularity but the 1998 game found its way to Dreamcast, Windows, and even a remastered version for the Nintendo Wii, years after its original release.

It was featured in lists that placed it in the Top 100 games of all time, and that success was felt all across the world, from Japan to the United States, the game was a hit. An arcade classic, The House of The Dead 2, was deemed one of the most successful arcade games of its generation.

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