The House of the Dead 2 Remake

[J4MES OX4D 10,117]

I certainly spent a few quid at Thorpe Park and on the Ferry to France playing this in the arcade! Absolute classic but having not played the original remake, I'm not sure how these translate especially with controls. Along with Crazy Taxi, Silent Scope and Time Crisis, it's impossible to recreate the brilliance that arcade machines used to provide. I did have this on the Dreamcast back in the day along with the light gun but I don't remember too much about it. 

 

[phil bottle 9,892]

12 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

I certainly spent a few quid at Thorpe Park and on the Ferry to France playing this in the arcade! Absolute classic but having not played the original remake, I'm not sure how these translate especially with controls. Along with Crazy Taxi, Silent Scope and Time Crisis, it's impossible to recreate the brilliance that arcade machines used to provide. I did have this on the Dreamcast back in the day along with the light gun but I don't remember too much about it. 

 

 

Love those shooting arcade games, particularly Time Crisis 🥰

[Luseth 2,049]

10 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

I certainly spent a few quid at Thorpe Park and on the Ferry to France playing this in the arcade! Absolute classic but having not played the original remake, I'm not sure how these translate especially with controls. Along with Crazy Taxi, Silent Scope and Time Crisis, it's impossible to recreate the brilliance that arcade machines used to provide. I did have this on the Dreamcast back in the day along with the light gun but I don't remember too much about it. 

 

 

You still see some of the arcade machines about, having the foot pedal for cover and the guns often had haptic feedback in them.

 

I played the house of the dead game that was on the Wii, that was good fun but lightguns generally do not work so well today obviously. There is a company that I believe has just released one that works with modern tv's but I can't remember the name of them.

 

The closest experience now is a VR headset, I have a few games on there that do get the same sort of feel as playing some of these games though it's also different at the same time.

[GazzaGarratt 11,126]

2 hours ago, Luseth said:

I played the house of the dead game that was on the Wii, that was good fun but lightguns generally do not work so well today obviously. There is a company that I believe has just released one that works with modern tv's but I can't remember the name of them.

 

This is the key for me and probably derails the thread so may start a new one for this!

 

House of the Dead was always a favourite of mine, like Time Crisis @phil bottle. I have some light guns for Time Crisis and House of the Dead 3 they were super cool to use and made it for gun fun running through the levels. My Xbox ones were Madcatz I believe, not something I'd usually get but they were green and specifically made with House of the Dead in mind.

 

Arcade ports to consoles still have a market out there, possibly more so now due to the way they were designed to have a quick go and quick turnaround time to restart.