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The House of the Dead 2

Review by XtremeGundamX

"Short, Sweet, Hard!!!"

This is a very fun game to play. Everything in this game is very detailed and looks great. The zobies litteraly get blowin into pieces and it looks great. The graphics are very smooth and look awesome. The sounds and music in this game are very detailed and sound great. This game is the best. Everything in this game is very detailed and looks great. The game my be short but its very fun to play. The game puts up quite a challenge it’s not really that easy. The game just seems to be to short although most of your boss’s are very hard to beat. The game is fun to play with friends and makes it even more enjoyable.

GAMEPLAY **9**

All you have to do is move a cursor around the screen. Simple ah. Not really. You can adjust the speed of the cursor if needed. The route you take will be detirmined by if the citizen gets killed which is very nice to have but some of your hostages are almost impossible to save. The gameplay is fairly simple to use although sometimes it can get confusing. The gameplay seems pretty simple and responsive althoug sometimes it seems the cursor moves to fast or to slow. The gameplay is fairly easy and derserves the 9.

SOUND / MUSIC **9**

You can hear the zombie’s growl. This is some great sound. You hear citizen’s cry for help or the mice squeek. This is some good sound. There isn’t really any music in this game but what there is it great sounding. All of the voices in this game are very detailed and sound great. Theres a sound for almost anything the kry of a person or the sound of the water being rushed up by a zombie. Overall almost everything in this game has a sound for it. Everything in this game is very detailed and sounds great. Theres not really any problems in this department of the game.

GRAPHICS / LEVEL DESIGN **10**

The graphics on this game are great but the movements of the character mouths are cheesy. The mouth movement is terrible it does not match up with the people’s voice. You can blow zombies to nothing. One shot, halve the head gone, another shot rest of the head gone, again another shot the body is gone. You can blows zombies apart with 9mm, shotgun, automatic, grenade launcher. The game is very detailed in the gore of this game. You can see the parts of the zombie literally being blown off. The levels are very neat and there are plenty of different routes to take to get to your destination. The levels are brilliantly design and are full of detaile with the smallest things such as a cat.

REPLAYABILITY **8**

You can play it through a few times but it will get boaring. This game is short it takes about 45 minutes to beat. All the items you can get will move place to place. They will not always be in the same spot which can make the game very interesting trying to find where your grenade launcher is. Also the two player mode is also very fun to play through and the only different thing about it is more enemies to kill.

CHALLENGE **10**

The first level may be easy but the rest are sure to keep you busy. The game may be short but it puts up one heck of a fight. There are zombies literally everywhere you go and are ready to kill you. The levels are full of special items that you can use next time and some of them are useful while others aren’t. The game should keep you busy for quite some time trying to beat it.

BUY OR RENT

I don’t know I mean I enjoyed the game but not for very long. Read the review you decide. The game is fun but I gurantee it won’t last very long.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 07/22/00, Updated 08/14/02

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