House Of The Dead 2: Remake Blasts Onto Switch This Spring

How could anyone do this?

are the controls gonna be ass this time, too?

I would prefer to play the original game...
Good that my local arcade centre has The House of the Dead 4 arcade cab. I've tried to play it once. I even didn't beat the 1st level on 1 credit, sadly. 😔

They NEED to include the original dubbing. it is NECESSARY for this masterpiece to be adorned with this phenomenal performance.

"Dogs of the AMS"

Anyways, played the original House of the dead 2 to death on the Dreamcast, and looking at the video, there is no light gun only controller support.
No thank you.

It looks better this time. The remake of the first one was a bit... Meh. I hope this is a big improvement.

Played this loads back in the day on Dreamcast, but I don't think light gun games are anywhere near as good with a controller unfortunately.

House of Dead 2 my Favorite

Not the original voice acting, neither the original music, and bad performance. What's not to like?

I'll stick to my Wii copy, thanks.

Edit: Oh, it will actually have the original music. Would you look at that?

There is a whole new breed of light guns that work with modern televisions and i really hope someone takes a punt on making one and getting all those classic light gun games together.

Time crisis, house of the dead, virtua cop, operation wolf, duck hunt and loads more.

The joy con won't cut it for these games.

If we get a physical I will buy this!

The PlayStation 3 Move era was fantastic for these sort of games and we had a good few
And a light gun attachment from Namco for the Move controller, perfect.

Suffer like G did 👻

I hope switch 2 has way better wiimote like joycons so I can play it like arcade lightgun games

Where is Panzer Dragoon Zwei?

Here's a thought: what if the new Joycon aren't a mouse but a light gun?

It's still weird to me these aren't on VR. Seems like the natural place for light gun games in the modern era.

Physical release and you have my gold, sirs!

“It’s very similar to the 1998 Curien case.”

Maybe a bit too much. We’ll see how “faithful” to the original gameplay it gets. Even in the first game’s remake, the classic arcade mode was messed up since it inherited the modern mode’s weak points and scoring system. At least the original soundtrack isn’t lost this time.

Needs sensor bar support for switch ir pointer

I downloaded the First one when It was discounted for 5 dollars and did not enjoy the controls. Might give another try though. Still prefer to play light gun games in the Wii and wish Forever had made another Panzer Dragoon, which was more enjoyable than House of the Dead Remake.

I didn't play the first remaster due to bad reviews. Particularly the controls. I'll wait for the review. Can't see me getting this if it has no gyro type controls, which seem unlikely. Enjoyed the arcades and Wii iterations of the series, so a shame.

100% there will be a physical from them and 100% will I buy it.

Didn't see this coming, but i will get it.

Suffer like G did?

@Bunkerneath HMHMHMHMHM!!!

@Paulo I think they're working on a remake of Panzer Dragoon II Zwei

controls will be dogs hit just like the first one because the switch doesn't have the technical capability for accurate pointing controls like a light gun or the wiimote and sensor bar can provide.

We absolutely need this on Switch.

To protect the LOOIFEE cycle

Looks like they’re fixing the bad voice acting from the original. On the one hand, maybe we’ll be able to take the game seriously this time round. On the other hand, Goldman calling me his friend and sounding like he meant it was part of the charm.

I had just been thinking about this the other week, hoping to hear some news. I really enjoyed the first remaster on Switch, so will certainly be picking this up. 😊

This game is gonna suck as bad as the first remake. Sorry, but that game was GOD-AWFUL and an insult to the original.

No faith in this at all.

@ChessboardMan Fixing?!? I'll only buy this game if they include the original voice acting. And if they do, I'll buy a billion copies because that's about how many times I played it on Dreamcast. Then a few million more on Wii.

@ghostsoundjosh If they don't put it on Switch it will be the original sin that man is responsible to!

Wow, did the first hack job really sell enough to warrant the go-ahead on a second entry? 😳
I know they announced they were doing both some time ago, but the fact that a substandard HOTD2 remake will exist when the Wii remaster was already fairly immaculate is kind of confounding.
And to be honest, I hate the art direction of these remakes. With this much grime and bloom lighting, it looks like they're trying to cover their work up, even though the models and animation are actually fine.

Meh it's likely gonna suck just like the first one. I rather just put back up the old Wii console and play that version instead.

@MikeP it's a hack-job. A quick buck being made off a good name.

It saddens me that SEGA cares this little about HotD...

Cool...I still need to get the first game. Is it just me though that it loses its charm with the aim toward realism?

@gojiguy You and me both.
Each wave of Sega management seems more and more apathetic toward the games people remember them for. They keep trying to be EA... and failing spectacularly at it.

The color is way too muted in this. The original isn't exactly the most vibrant game in the world, but it isn't nearly this drab.

I want the one that was on the Wii.

@gojiguy which is baffling, because the arcade game House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn is EXCELLENT. How they greenlight this when compared to that is mind-boggling.

@RadioHedgeFund I've convinced myself it's going to be able to function as both

Well the controls won't be bad for me as I have a shotgun controller you put both joycons in came with chicken range which is really bad but only bought for 20 for the shotgun controller with the game.

That would be ace — I had to shelve World of Goo because the gyro pointer controls just aren't up to snuff.

@zockermiller @zockermiller ditto! Physical or nothing!

I wish they’d release the house of the dead games on the meta quest.

I'd love to see Overkill, but it's highly unlikely at this point as they seem to be struggling to make this worthwhile. Maybe the next system will reintroduce a sensor bar of sorts...?

If the Switch 2 has mouse like controls, this would be better releasing there.

Always glad to get a new Rail shooter released at home. So rare. Usually you can only play these at a local D&B. Hopefully people buy/support it so we can get a Overkill or HOD3 remake next!

This looks awful.

I’ll stick to the Dreamcast version.

Without a sensor bar or VR hand tracking, the controls will be horrible. 😢

Until someone works out how to get a light gun to work with switch games on modern TVs, I think this sort of game will be relegated to 90% sales very quickly.

I'd love to play this and the Virtual Cop games again as I could on my Saturn.

@wiiware
That would really thrive the genre, compared to other consoles. If you can use a sensor bar alike and controllers have IR that would be awesome!

@Chocobo_Shepherd Waiting on it brother! Hoping it wont be LRG and such craps. BUT YEAH CANT WIAT. I own the HOTD 1 whatver special edt and so woorthh!