The House of the Dead 2
The House of the Dead 2 is a first-person light gun shooter arcade game with a horror theme and the second game in The House of the Dead series of video games. The direct sequel to The House of the Dead, it…
The House of the Dead 2 is a shooter developed by WOW Entertainment, released 1 November 1998 on Wii, Dreamcast, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What The House of the Dead 2 is
The House of the Dead 2 is a shooter game developed by WOW Entertainment and released in 1998. It was published by Sega. It is available on Wii, Dreamcast, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Sega NAOMI.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game follows the fictional events of February 26, 2000, fourteen months after the 1998 Curien Mansion incident in The House of the Dead. AMS agent G has gone missing and his last known location is Venice, Italy. The city of Venice becomes chaotic when a strange zombie breakout takes place. American AMS agents James Taylor and Gary Stewart are dispatched, along with Amy Crystal and Harry Harris, to investigate and evacuate the populace. They suddenly encounter the impish Zeal, who had recently dealt with G. Upon finding G alive but wounded, James and Gary converse with him and G gives them a field journal showing the bosses and weak points. The pair are then met with a massive undead…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The House of the Dead series
The House of the Dead 2 is the first of 36 entries we hold in the The House of the Dead series. The next entry was The Typing of the Dead in 1999. Its critic score of 67 is 8 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is The House of the Dead: Overkill at 82.
How it was received
The House of the Dead 2 holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 73 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 5 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
The House of the Dead 2 launched on 1 November 1998, within three weeks of Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and Centipede. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Centipede.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The House of the Dead 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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