Although initially announced alongside the first The House of the Dead: Remake back in 2019, news for the direct sequel has been rather scarce.
It seems that the dead may be about to rise, however, as a rating for The House of the Dead 2: Remake for the Nintendo Switch has surfaced via the official PEGI (Pan European Game Information) website courtesy of Gematsu.
Naturally, the rating deems the sequel to be worthy of an 18+ certificate for its copious zombie violence, but what's of more interest to us is that the rating may indicate that a release might be on the horizon. We're getting a Nintendo Direct at some point this month, after all.
Microids has been listed as the physical distributor for the game, but given the fact it was announced alongside the first remake, we're going to assume that developer MegaPixel Studio will be taking the reins on this one too. Reception for the first remake was mixed and it received a score of 6/10 from us, in which we said that the game's "performance can be janky and the controls clunky"
Nevertheless, more House of the Dead is always a good thing in our book. The original release in 1996 for arcades, but the franchise has since appeared on multiple consoles, including the Wii and Switch.
What do you make of this rating for The House of the Dead 2: Remake? Would you like to experience this game on the Switch? Let us know with a comment.
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Loved that on the Dreamcast! Super corny dialogue but great with the lightgun!
No light gun, no purchase From me
Oh is my fav , is happening please also port with Latest Scarlet ver too . If available remake initial D Too sega
Oh for the love of the series please give us an actual working light gun this time with accurate gyro aiming and sensor. There's no excuse why this is still an issue, those joycon gyro aiming were unresponsive in the first remake. Partnered with Sinden and make an actual light gun for this please, it'll help the game a lot.
My wife and I really enjoyed the first game, I must say. We played mostly using the touch screen. It's a great game with a lot of replayability and very affordable when on sale.
With my Sinden Lightgun it was 10/10 on PC... but still fun on Switch.
@stevep I have a dark gun you can borrow.
I love these and think its pretty fun on Switch with my plastic guns lol
Also have a Sinden so will be getting this for PC
@stevep I only purchased House of the Dead 1 Remake because It was on sale for $ 5. But yeah It's a Lot more Fun playing House of the Dead 2 & 3 on Wii (I use the Nyko Perfect Shot). Wish they had made another Panzer Dragoon instead (or another forgotten Sega game like Nights)
Please adopt the new tech that is out there and bring back the lightgun genre!
I can't get the point of porting that kinda games on consoles with no precise pointing device whatso ever
Awesome. I've probably played this game on my Dreamcast more than any other over the years. It'll be nice to have it on the go.
@stevep VR would be a far better place for re-releases and remasters of arcade-style light gun games like this.
Put it in a virtual cabinet inside and virtual House of the Dead arcade/bedroom/wherever, with you standing in front and holding a virtual light gun in your hand, point as if you're holding a real gun peripheral, pull the trigger button, shoot and done.
That's how you do this kind of thing right in 2024+ imo.
PSVR needs this. Who knows, maybe Nintendo will do VR next gen
Only ever played Overkill on Wii. One of the few games that made me not regret buying that Nyko Perfect Shot.
I picked up the first one on Switch, and the controls were barely functional. Very disappointing.
I'll just stick with my wii copy of House of the Dead 2&3. Overkill is a lot of fun too.
If it comes packaged with a curved screen CRT and light gun I’ll buy it.
This MUST HAVE a „Typing of the Dead“ mode!
But this time in different languages, please. I tried to play it on my Dreamcast, but typing in English on a German keyboard was nearly impossible because of the different punctuation…
switch gyro sensors just not up to the job unfortunately for this type of game.
@Big_Fudge Only because standing inside it would be quite a different fully immersive first person VR version of the game and would require a whole lot of extra work, whereas simply showing the original game inside a virtual cabinet with a simple VR room wrapped around you is a lot more practical in this case and indeed more authentic to the original. But, man, if they did a proper full VR version where you are actually going through the scenes yourself in first person, still keeping with the original styling and stuff so it really looks and feels like the original games but just in VR, I would be all over that.
I love this game and still regularly play it on my PC with the Sinden Lightgun and it's great to see a few others here have one too. Sadly that experience cannot be replicated on consoles at the moment but I'll still buy it anyway
@Duncanballs exactly this, we already have solutions to play lightgun games on modern screens, we just need the platform holders to adopt it
the remake of the first one was so barebones. I can't believe they take so long to make a 30m long game and can't add any extra content to it.
It's insane that there's still not a decent light gun or something similar on Switch yet. If I'm wrong and someone has found one, please correct me and post it here.
The first one received a few updates that made the aiming go from completely broken, to pretty decent. I’ve had a lot of with it. You really have to tinker with the settings, but it worked.
I will with this one too. This is my favourite of the franchise. Can’t wait.
yaaaayyyy!!! no we need some of the later games to finally get home ports!!
@NeonPizza I know that's why I mention Sinden in my comment. They know how to make it work for Switch and guys like Madlittlepixel already demonstrate that those work great, it's just that the big publishers aren't embracing what Sinden does and rather use those crappy gyro aiming.
To protect the LIFE CYCLE...
OK, it's nice to have this game back for another go-around, but when is someone going to rescue Scarlet Dawn from the arcades?
I bought and played the remake of the first HotD... and suffered like G did.
"We're meeting G over there."
There really is no point in updating the graphics while also severely downgrading the gameplay by omitting a light gun.
There could be a way to use the IR camera and perhaps some little tin foil squares to create an effective light gun on switch? I would even accept the ability to plug in a Wii sensor bar and use an old Wiimote. Like the previous game, I think this is just going to use gyro, so I won't buy it.
Virtua Cop 1&2 next please!!
"forever entertainment"
No thx
@HugoRadio it it any good. Playing in with controller I was going buy then people said it bad aim off etc. thanks james
Don't know why sega to adjust it themselves than give it to another studio to do I hope they don't do this with crazy taxi .tbh I can't remember who done that have check the case
@DioBrando get them adaptors to fit controller in but that not going make any difference
@Bluesaxo It's playable with a controller. I watched a youtube video that helped me properly config the sensitivity of the contoller.
what? another ugly looking remake that should never have existed? house of the dead 2 needs no remake its fine as it is.
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