User Reviews (1 - 11 of 34)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

House of the Dead revisited

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: March 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was disappointed when they brought the House of the Dead games to the Wii. The 1st letdown: I was hoping they were going to update the graphics and horrible voice-overs. I like old school games just as much as the next person, but I forgot how horrible the graphics looked; when compared to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. The other letdown was, what happened to unlimited continues? Some may consider that cheap,but to each his own. Even an auto save after each level would have been nice. It's not like I can jam quarters in my Wii to keep on playing.

waste of money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Do yourself a favor and go to your nearest blockbuster store and rent this game! It is not worth buying although it is fun to play it gets boring after awhile because once you die you die! then you have to start all over again! it would have been better if their were some save points I am so glad I rented this game and didn't buy it cause it probably would have been hard to sell

Good rental game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I got this game about a month ago, and have played it only once or twice. If any of you have played this in the arcade, it's the exact same game. I would only rent this game if I could go back and not purchase it. It's a direct port from the arcade. I paid about 32 bucks for it, and my friend and I nearly beat HOTD2 in about 15 minutes. I'm not kidding. You could probably easily beat both games in about 2 or 3 hours. RENT THIS GAME! It is not worth your money to buy it! Take my advice!

Incredibly Disappointing and Boring!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was really looking forward to this game because I wanted something fun and silly to play with friends, and what's more fun that shooting zombies? Well, I bought it shortly after it came out, and after only a few plays, I'm ready to trade it in (not to mention it's set my "rent before you buy" policy in concrete). I knew it was an arcade style game, but the fact that it seems like they just took the arcade game and put it on a disk was disappointing. It's worse because it's not even a good arcade game!

The Good:
-You get to shoot zombies.

The Bad:
-The dialogue is stilted and poorly written.
-The graphics are very 90's arcade game, blocky and kind of jerky when they move.
-You can't save, which ok, it's an arcade style game. BUT...
-It's the exact same every time you play! After just a few plays, my boyfriend and I would be like "watch out for the one coming on the left" or "don't shoot that human around the corner."
-There really aren't that many extra credits to earn, so you die, a lot. Which then brings me back to it being the same every time you play.
-You have no control over where, when, or how you move or even where you look. Again, I know it's an arcade game, but the rest of it was just so boring that I was aggravated by the inability to move.

I guess I've just been spoiled by games that are at least a little different each time you play or are a little more exciting. Now, if I had paid $10 or $15 for this game, I would just shrug it off as a loss. But this game is NOT worth $30.

Entertaining To A Point But Still A Great Let Down In All

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking it would be just as entertaining as Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles game for the wii was I ever disappointed. The main disappointment for me was the graphics while I was not expecting the greatest seeing these cheap and poorly rendered RE zombie knockoffs was a joke as well as the weapons and scenery while moving around the levels of the game. The next problem I felt was the game has you play like it WAS the arcade version which means that you can't continue on after all the credits your characters have are used up after being killed which means after you used the four to seven credits and your character dies you have to start the game from the very beginning. The final problem was the voice actors they got for the game they were so awful I wished I could turn their voices off during game play and just read the subtitles you could tell they were just reading from their scripts with no feeling what so ever it was very sad and pathetic. You can upgrade your characters health points somewhat as well as get more credit points
with the game extras and there are some small extras as well but I just felt that their not worth mentioning. Also I have to say unlike with the
RE Umbrella Chronicles game this game gives you no control of the camera angles so you can't really look around for any hidden items as much as you could with REUC you do sometimes get to pick which direction you want to go but All In All there won't be much of a difference which way you go. So if you like shooting games for the Wii and for a reasonable
price this might be for you but if you are looking for any thing else in the game I say wait for another game to come your way...

House of the Dead 2&3

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 19
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I rated this so low because I never recvd. it. It got lost between Phila. and where I live by Atlantic City.

A welcome, but slightly disappointing, return

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: March 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sega's long running arcade light gun shooter series makes a welcome return with this compilation. The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return features nearly perfect ports of the original games, which in itself tells you everything you need to know right there, as both games are showing their age. The shooting calibration using the Wii remote is nearly perfect, while Extreme Mode is also included as a bonus of sorts. Sadly, that's the only real bonus that Sega included in this package, which really would have benefited from other extras or at least enhancements to the games themselves. Flaws aside though, The House of the Dead 2 & 3 are still great and fun shooters that new and old fans alike will get some enjoyment out of, but old fans of the series will be left wanting a little bit more bang for their buck with this package.

Must Play With a Friend

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great example of what I call "The Principle of Relative Graphics"

Put simply: We always remember games as having better graphics, this is because we remember the graphics as they were in relation to everything leading up to when we played the game. For example, Super Mario World was state of the art and amazing when it first came out. Similarly Star Fox was impressive when compared to asteroids and so forth.

Now we have games with graphics that push the limits to what the human eye can even perceive...the real issue should be gameplay for new games.

anyways

When these games came out at the arcade they rocked hardcore, the graphics were amazing and quarters became scarce, now they are dated(particularly 2).

Bottom Line: Blasting Zombies with a friend(on 3 primarily) is still fun.

Still fun, and the calibration is as close to perfection as you can get!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was always a fan of this series since the second installment first came home on the Dreamcast in 1999. It was also released on XBox and PCs, yet the Dreamcast version had some badly inaccurate gun calibration, regardless of which brand of light gun I used. To get the best score requires pinpoint precision, and this has the best accuracy of any previous light gun on the market. We can only hope that someone will bring out more shooter franchises, especially the Time Crisis and/or Point Blank series.

As for the games themselves, 2 is a perfect Dreamcast port (which is almost identical to the arcade game), while HOTD3 has had a slight graphics downgrade when compared to the arcade version, but still looks and plays well.

There are no extras to speak of, nor is there any version of the original HOTD.

Where's the continue button??

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to enjoy this game. I played this game many times in the arcade and jumped at the chance to purchase this game. The gameplay is very realistic as with most Wii games I've played. It's fun with one or two players...for the first 10 times.

After that, you get frustrated by the fact you have to restart your games from the beginning every time. And since I don't have the ability to play every day, I seem to be stuck in the first couple levels.

Give us regular folks that just enjoy just a few hours a week of video games a chance to play an interesting game.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 Next 

Actions