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House of the Dead 2 Xplosiv Range
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4/5 |
Fast, Frantic Fun
(December 25, 2007) |
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Now this game overreached my expectations. The gameplay is so incredibly fast delivering a brilliant sense of excitement. Its only downfall is that the game is incredibly short, so short even i completed it on hard mode in 25 minutes. Apart from that this games a winner with pretty good graphics for its time. In conclusion, if you are a gore heartthrob then this is the game for you! |
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2/5 |
A bit pointless really
(June 06, 2005) |
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House of the Dead is great fun in the arcade or on a console with a light gun. On a PC, however, it just doesn't work. The thing that really grates is the fact that you don't actually control the character. Just like in the arcade version, you go through a set route with a set storyline and just shoot zombies. As I say, this works well if you have a light gun but sadly light guns for PCs are expensive, hard to get hold of and don't work with newer LCD or TFT monitors. This reduces the game to a point-and-click experience which would make a good application to train people in mouse usage, but a rather dull game. If you are going to buy this game then make sure you buy the console version, along with a light gun. |
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4/5 |
Very silly, lots of fun
(July 20, 2004) |
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An aim and shoot game with a short period of game play should make for limited enjoyment, unless that is you have a fetish for exploding zombie heads and a sense of the ridiculous. The story is a pretty standard secret-agents-dealing-with-a-zombie-outbreak scenario with end-of-level demonic bosses. The interface is point and point shooting, nothing else (except a pause button). Temporary fun for the quick of the wrist and the simple of mind. Shoot zombies in the arms, legs, chest and head! Watch their heads explode! Hell, blow 'em in half! See the multitudinous hordes of zombies on display - zombies coming at you with claws and teeth, zombies with axes, knives, bloody big swords and the ubiquitous chainsaw! Mud zombies, crawling, jumping zombies. Zombies in berets (wha'?) Bats fly at you, flesh eating worms wriggle at you and what I can only presume to be lengths of human faeces crawl at you with the intention of messing up your off-the-rack agent-suit. Oh, and save some civilians if you can find the time (hint, don't shoot them, however entertaining that may be - Postal fans beware!). Once you've finished the five levels on display here and listened to the corny lines explaining the threadbare plot then you'd think the game was over. It's a sad person who plays the same game again and again in an effort to improve on your high score when EVERY GAME IS EXACTLY THE SAME (give or take). What makes this game amenable to repeat playings are the modifiers. More lives, more credits, bigger guns, sillier guns, play as a hunk in a Die Hard vest, as a woman (with a man's voice - weird). Giant zombie heads, giant civilian heads (stop that! silly game ...). Yes, it's a silly game, but I LOVE ZOMBIES! Particularly, I love the type that 'come to bits easy'. And now I love House of the Dead 2. |
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