Customer Reviews
old school fun! - By: R. Ford, 16 Jul 2008 
i was very happy to see house of dead on wii, & was quick to make it one of my first purchases. ive spent hours, in the days, at arcades blasting zombies. i got the venom gun with this & once you calibrate the gun with your tv its simple. just point & shoot & kill. Brilliant!!!
Good stress reliever! - By: Electricliz, 06 Jul 2008 This is a reallly good shooting game especiallly if you play it with one of the Wii guns that are on the market. Two games for the price of one you can't complain. Good arcade action that you can keep coming back too. I found its only downfalll was there was no save option during gamplay but other than that I would say go & buy it.
Arcade classic, in your home! - By: C. Larcombe, 06 Jun 2008 Ok so i brought this game purely for the love of the arcade classic, & it certainly presents a great arcade feel, perfect for the Wii.
However, if you're not the type of person who can happily stand pressing a trigger over & over then yes, it can get slightly repetitive. Great for a short burst of violence, or multiplayer fun, but not so great for a long term challlenge.
The different modes in both games give you more to do, especiallly the boss mode, which is good practice, as well as the timed challlenge which helps work on aiming because you increase time by shooting in the head.
I would say the aim isn't 100% accurate on both games, as it is fairly easy to shoot anywhere on the screen & be able to kill alll the zombies, As the game progresses aim is more important & you have to work on it, which makes you concentrate more, but the pointer tends to move pretty fast so it takes a steady hand.
Graphics on HOTD2 are pretty basic, like the original, which doesnt reallly affect the gameplay, but you can tell the improvement when it comes to HOTD3.
Overalll a good, fast moving no brainer, great for multiplayer games, & just enough gore!
The Dead Return One More Time - By: michael myers, 23 May 2008 
Being a fan of Light Gun games & zombies I have been waiting for house of the dead 2/3 since it was first announced, Now if you have played the games previously on Dreamcast (HOTD2) or Xbox (HOTD3) there will not reallly be anything new to see as the games are more or less exact ports of these games, if you have only played it in the arcade though you have likely missed a lot of the game even if you put enough pound coins in to complete it as there are multiple paths.
House of The Dead 2
The graphics are Dreamcast quality so not the best in this day & age so luckily the game play fun. The game is reallly easy to get the hang of, the camera is in first person view & automaticallly moves leaving you to focus on blasting zombies & saving innocent people, if the zombies get too close you will get attacked & loose a life. Some of the zombies are slow & easy to blast then as you progress faster & more dangerous creatures will start showing up. Like I said earlier certain things you do in game will change the path your character takes leading to new areas e.g. the second level starts with a car coming at you with a zombie on the windscreen attacking the guy inside, if you shoot the zombie the man stops the car & you walk up some steps & through a town but if you don't shoot the zombie he crashes the car in to a shop window you walk through the shop & through a few more buildings taking a completely different path through the level. This adds a lot of replay value to the game as it's impossible to see everything without multiple play throughs. At the end of each level is a boss, alll the bosses are quite good & require different tactics to defeat obviously the difficulty of the bosses increases as you progress.
There is also a original mode as a extra, playing through this game you can find hidden power ups in creats/barrols etc then the next time you play through the game you can use the power ups such extra continues, more powerful weapons & many more. Also a boss attack mode where you can practise beating the bosses.
House Of The Dead 3
The Game play is More or less the same for house of the dead 3, graphics are improved over HOTD2. Sega decided to remove the multiple path game play from HOTD3 after the first level anyway, the main differences in HOTD3 I feel is the bosses that are much improved for instance in one of the levels the boss is chasing you the entire level & every time you shake him off & loose him he bursts through a walll & comes at you some more loose him again blast a few zombies turn the next corner, there he is. With the exception of the first & last level you get to select the order you play the levels in so I play the hardest ones first.
Aswell as the arcade game there is a time attack mode where you get extra time for shooting zombies in the head or killing multiple enemies in one shot, if the time runs out you die so you have to be quick.
The aiming is very good in both the games the curser is on screen so you can see where you are aiming to reload you point off screen, if you want to use a gun attachment you can calibrate the Wiimote to your gun & make the onscreen curser disappear to make it more like the arcade.
Over alll even though these are not new games they are still great fun & have plenty to offer, with house of the dead 2/3 Ghost squad, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles & Links cross bow training the Wii is starting to build up quite a nice selection of light gun games so get out there & start playing them.
You Know What Sega Needs On The Wii... - By: Steven Till, 27 Apr 2008 House Of The Dead 4! If you've ever played it in the arcades, you'll know why! The Wii's Motion Sensor would be perfect for it, I just hope Sega reads this & takes it in to consideration.
