House of the Dead 2 & 3 Wii-vived in early '08
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Nov 15th 2007 at 3:45PM }
Wii detractors will be quick to point out that House of the Dead 2 & 3 aren't the latest in the series (that would be HotD 4) and are considerably "last-gen" at this point. House of the Dead will join Sega's other light-gun title, Ghost Squad, and Capcom's Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles in giving purpose to the Wii Zapper. As much as getting half-decade old arcade ports makes us roll our eyes at the Wii, it's still cool to play House of the Dead without having to hunt down one of last arcades left in the States (and it's not like traditional lightguns work on our fancy HDTVs either!)
[Thanks, Hvnlysoldr]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 15th 2007 3:48PM
Are these separate titles, or packed together in one package?
Because packed together would be gravy.
samfish @ Nov 15th 2007 3:50PM
I believe it's one package.
Which makes it all the more sweeter.
religiousjedi @ Nov 16th 2007 1:46AM
Oh My GOD!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Horrid voice acting (HotD2)!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
Anyways, seems very pleasing...
JodyAnthony (Good Eats Defense Force) @ Nov 15th 2007 3:49PM
needs more Typing of the Dead
samfish @ Nov 15th 2007 3:52PM
The Wii DOES have USB keyboard support now.
If they threw that one there, I'm officially sold.
R @ Nov 15th 2007 3:50PM
"Wii detractors will be quick to point out..."
Does the second paragraph count as quick? ~_^
organic_shadow @ Nov 15th 2007 3:51PM
Ehh, no graphical updates ala RE:UC, not much interest to me. I guess price is a factor too. We'll see... :)
In other news, I just realized it would make more sense for the wii zapper to have the trigger in the back, instead of the front where you normally have a handle attachment on a gun. Third parties?
Shockgamer @ Nov 15th 2007 3:52PM
Why not HoTD 1 as well? It's not like Wii owners demand awesome (or good........or decent) graphics.
Why not HoTD 4? I guess that would take too much of *gasp* an effort?
David @ Nov 15th 2007 5:14PM
House of the dead 4 would kind suck without a really rumbly controller.
The whole game used an automatic weapon so it would be only slightly funner than pointing at star bits in super mario galaxy =\
However, as the original waggle game, House of the Dead 4 is kinda spiritually appropriate for Wii.
Admiral_Mike @ Nov 15th 2007 3:53PM
...................joygasm
TwistedBishop @ Nov 15th 2007 3:54PM
Keep on livin' la vida loca with those on-rails shooters, Wii. Don't let anyone change you.
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Nov 15th 2007 3:55PM
They should have packed in 4.
NATO_Duke @ Nov 15th 2007 3:56PM
The real news is that uwe boll will be handling the production of these fine fine titles.
Nigeria @ Nov 15th 2007 3:57PM
Just when you think it's dead, it pulls you back in.
megaStryke @ Nov 15th 2007 3:58PM
HotD 2 and 3 packed together? That's not surprising at all. In fact, there is NO REASON why they shouldn't be packed together when you remember that the Xbox version of HotD 3 featured the entire HotD 2 game as an unlockable.
ackmondual @ Nov 15th 2007 4:03PM
urge to buy Wii.... rising.... rising.... Done. Let's bask in video games' peaceful violence.
Jeff @ Nov 15th 2007 4:06PM
I almost feel like third parties are enjoying shitting on Nintendo.
Jimwack @ Nov 15th 2007 4:10PM
Huh?
Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 15th 2007 4:55PM
Yes, third parties are constantly shitting a stream of neverending awesome games into the golden toilet bowl of fun that is the Wii!
Clack @ Nov 15th 2007 5:23PM
Have you ever played any of the HotD games? Oodles of fun. First on-rails shooter I ever really got into (#1).
jsn @ Nov 15th 2007 4:08PM
the nostalgia for mediocre games is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
NATO_Duke @ Nov 15th 2007 4:20PM
...and mediocre action heros.
WiNG @ Nov 15th 2007 4:22PM
lol nice one Duke, +1
NATO_Duke @ Nov 15th 2007 5:03PM
Danke schön!
Bill @ Nov 16th 2007 10:53AM
Duke FTW!
WiNG @ Nov 15th 2007 4:23PM
They might as well include HOTD1, even if it sucks.
And they might as well include Typing of the Dead. It taught me how to type. Plus it's the only game my gf pwns me in, getting like 20x my score, haha.
NintendoFanbot @ Nov 15th 2007 4:32PM
All these Light-gun games and still no PointBlank!!!!111!!
But HotD is awesome too. :D
Mr Khan @ Nov 15th 2007 4:38PM
Wii corners another niche, apparently, the retro gamer is already in thier grasp, and now they move on to the arcade-shooter fan
And Jeff, Sega has more leeway for this, since they have provided some of the best original 3rd party content on Wii to date (along with Capcom, and to a certain extent Ubisoft), Secret Rings, while considered by some to be a flop, was probably the first Wii game whose graphics couldn't have been rendered on GC, and NiGHTS 2 is just excellent
samfish @ Nov 15th 2007 5:15PM
Secret Rings is pushing 800,000 sold. That's hardly considered a flop, especially for a Sonic game these days.
Still, it's nice to know that someone besides me noticed how good Sonic's graphics are!
shouryuuken @ Nov 15th 2007 4:56PM
yeah.. where is hotd? but then again, porting saturn games is pretty difficult i heard, so that might be the reason why. but really, how hard would it be to do a port of a 10 year old arcade game? i figure hotd4 isnt included because it looks something like virtua fighter 5, so graphically dumbing it down might not be something the devs want to do. i udnerstand that. but as for hotd, i hardly remember that game, i played through it in arcades with my cousin, but i never got it on my saturn, which i owned a ntsc-u and pal stunner for (ntsc is orange, pal is blue.. sorta like the arcades), so a console port would be nice. speakin of the saturn though.. VIRTUA COP TRILOGY ON THE WII. considering the first 2 have beyond last gen graphics, thats a no brainer, but even better.. we never (at least in the us) got a port of virt cop 3! it had bullet time and looked really fun. i played it once in arcades, but i never feed quarter into machines, and virt cop 3 has last gen graphics, itd be easy to port to wii.
Force Assassin @ Nov 15th 2007 5:01PM
I am totally with you on all of that shouryuuken. I never was able to get that for my Saturn either since it was extremely hard to find. And I am absolutly onboard with you on the Virtua Cop trilogy idea!!! I was so happy when they ported part 2 to the Dreamcast, but I am itching to play all of them (3 included) on the Wii! This would combat the Time Crisis series on the PS systems! Lets rock that idea too Sega! COME ON!!!
Mr Khan @ Nov 15th 2007 5:13PM
With its veritable clusterfuck of an architecture, they would port the PC version if they did anything, hell, even the version of Sonic R that made it onto Sonic Gems Collection was a straight port of the PC version
Saturn porting/emulating is hard as hell
Seroth @ Nov 15th 2007 4:53PM
I'm definitely going to buy this. Umbrella Chronicles just doesn't look like it's going to be a very good zombie shooter...but House of the Dead has proven to be awesome.
s256 @ Nov 15th 2007 5:29PM
No. Umbrella Chronicles is VERY fun.. yet sweetly difficult. =]
Force Assassin @ Nov 15th 2007 4:54PM
I am totally all over this! The only thing that I hope is that Sega will actually give us, the gamers, House of the Dead 1 also! Besides the Saturn and PC, there isn't a way for us to play the first game. This is the perfect way and time for them to give us the first game along with the 2nd and 3rd. I know this is most likely an Wii version of the Xbox disc, but Joystiq, if you are reading this, please contact Sega again and mention it to them. That would be the best thing ever! Thanks!!!
Ghaleon @ Nov 15th 2007 4:57PM
I like RE:UC so far, but honestly the controls are sloppy as hell. SEGA needs to do a lot more work than that if HotD will play well.
s256 @ Nov 15th 2007 5:33PM
The only issue I have with Umbrella Chronicles is with changing between weapons. I use the C button on the nunchuck because that way I don't have to shift my hand up the remote.
Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 15th 2007 4:58PM
Man I sure love shooting zombies. Wii has become the console of choice for a new generation of zombie-hating gamers. I'll take RE4, RE:UC, Ghost Squad, and 2 HotDs plzmkthnx.
Paul P. @ Nov 15th 2007 5:04PM
Actually I'd say neither these, Ghost Squad, or Umbreall Chronicles give any use to the zapper. It's a useless, functionless piece of plastic. All it does is actually restrain what you can do with the controller by forcing the nunchuck and remote on the same plane. Pretty much and 'zapper' game plays better if you don't even use it at all. It kind of ticks me off as an environmentalist, that Nintendo is wasting all this plastic.
Rob Accomando @ Nov 15th 2007 5:05PM
I hope Wii gets part 4 because I'm tired of buying guns for just hotd.(Dreamcart and xbox) Not sure if I want to buy 2 & 3 again though.
Rob Accomando @ Nov 15th 2007 5:16PM
meant "Dreamcast".
Also, I can't wait until all the "remakes" are done and Wii gets actual NEW games.
Nicholas Sulikowski @ Nov 15th 2007 7:49PM
I love how before the final Wii Zapper was shown or announced, people were going mad about when they're going to show it off, and when it would finally come out. And then it came out and people called it a waste of plastic.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 16th 2007 3:19PM
Thats because it looked nothing like we all imagined it should.
Instead of being just a form you put the controllers into, it should have been a plug for the wiimote, with its own trigger and analog stick. Buttons could have been placed along the sides of the "barrel" for maximum functionality.
But no, we get molded plastic.
Your Ad here 555-1923 @ Nov 15th 2007 9:19PM
HotD Fuck YEAH!
Joe @ Nov 15th 2007 9:37PM
I hope some third party member will bring out a nice gun that works with these games. I WiiZaper just does not cut it for me.
psyborg @ Nov 15th 2007 11:52PM
I already play House of The Dead 3 with Wiimote thanks to the PC version and my bluetooth adapter. Its pretty satisfying.
License to ill @ Nov 16th 2007 12:17AM
How the hell do you guys get excited at a repackaged 10 year old light gun game.
Sega try putting even a little budget into the damn game and update it you cheap fucks.
Wii will continue to get 3rd party crap games because you people support this shit, but you dont buy highly rated games like Zak and Wiki...
McWeen @ Nov 16th 2007 8:35AM
Soon we will all suffer like G did.
Retrospook @ Dec 13th 2007 4:26PM
Argh what a fate! I feel like a mindless Zombie at times, Nintendo Wii shouldnt that be Wee!
Rehash Central was looking forward to HotD 2&3 until I relised 4 was coming out on Xbox - I feel like Im living in the past. No HotD 1 Im dissappointed I guess the graphical adjustments would be too much.
Res Evil Umbrella may be slower paced and less hectic than house of the dead but its got more content than the first 3 house of the deads put together.
If your waiting for HotD 2+3 and havent got Res evil Umbrella cronicles you dont know what Ur missing its top and thats coming from a Silent Hill Nut.