Last month's announcement of The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return brought as many questions as it did answers. Will the games be modified/enhanced in any way? Why not include the original and make it a trilogy? And what about Wii-specific modes? 1UP recently sent these questions via email to Sega director Emiko Sunaga.
1UP: Why bring these two House of the Dead titles to Wii, and why now?
Emiko Sunaga: We wanted to bring the most memorable versions from the series history. Both The House of the Dead 2 and The House of the Dead III were extremely popular with fans, making it very easy for us to decide which versions to deliver to Wii. With the Wii Zapper, a whole new generation of gamers can enjoy the series the way it was designed to be played.
Kevin of Paranerds writes: "Awwwwwwwwoooooooo…that was the sound of a wolf and/or coyote howling in the distance. Why? Because it’s that season again. Hallowe’en, the best unpaid holiday ever. We’ve seen the Top Ten Startling/Disturbing/Scary Games, Top Ten Scary Moments in Non-Scary Games, Top Ten Creepiest Silent Hill Monsters and Top Ten Creepy Things in Gaming and after all this time we never looked at the characters in the game but rather always the genre. This isn’t about what makes a game scary it’s about Halloween’s best character…Zombies. Why zombies? Well, Zombies for some reason Zombies are big now, and I may have had my time in Toronto Zombie Walks in the past, so we love us some Zombies and know a thing or two about them. And why do we love Zombies? Because they’re a bloody good time and you don’t have to feel bad about killing them. They’re just bags of blood ready to be explodededed. So let’s take a look of the games that have you fighting on hordes of Zombies, this is the Top Ten Zombie Massacre Games. "
"The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return released for the Nintendo Wii on March 11, 2008. The game was published by Sega, and it received an ESRB rating of "MATURE" with "Blood and Gore, Violence" listed as content for gamers and parents to be aware of.
How many hours of gameplay can you expect battling the undead in The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return if you haven't played it? How many U.S. Wii owners have reported playing the game, and how many hours have they reported playing it since the game released over 4 years ago? Brew yourself some coffee, and let's take a look!", writes CoffeeWithGames.
GameDynamo - "It took video games much longer to develop decent voice acting than it did to develop voice acting in the first place. This was especially true for translated Japanese games, as many of the game companies were completely unprepared at matching lip flaps and matching the language to an English sentence structure and cultural context. "
lmao oooooh dante.
I think that was also a problem with the writing, because that Line is far too long to deliver with emotion and emphasis at the end......
try repeating it....
"I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with Liiiiiiiiiiight!"
its just not written to be yelled, it should have been spoken softly.
and WHY the hell does Elmer Fudd voice the roll of Megamans creator lmao!
these voices were terrible but in a good memorable way.. I didnt think MMX4 was toooo bad.. MMs voice sucks in every game hes in cuz he sounds like a lil girl.. But Zeros was fine.. Castlevania was terribly awesome.. Starfox too.. For the most part, it was capcom & segas cheap a$$e$ hiring family members or street bums to save money, instead of paying for quality work lol
I loved these games... If they say the Zapper works well and everything is good I might get them...
I think we all know why that game will NEVER be on the Wii, or at least it can't be there in the same way it exists in the arcades.
Wii Zapper works in half the shooter games right now. Ghost Squad and well the pack in. RE:UC I'd say no to.
House of the Dead on the Wii will rock cuz the games are sweet already ^^ I have III on the Xbox and I played that one alot :) It'll be nice to have the better aim with the Wii Remote on these though
Pretty solid interview except for the fact that the interviewer seemed obsessed w/ minigames.
With USB keyboard support in the most recent Wii update and Nintendo's line of self-improvement games such as Brain Age and Flash Focus, it'd make sense to include Typing of the Dead w/ this compilation as well.