
HotD2 however takes a few hits in terms of playability because of its visuals. The first thing to hit home is that the visuals on HotD2 are appalling, as you’d expect for a 10-year-old game! That said, there are plenty of 10-year-old games that remain perfectly playable despite their aged visuals (just check out the N64 section on the Virtual Console for proof of that).

Yours truly is not in the same boat – this is my first time playing either game, so you’re getting an opinion as if these considerably old games were actually new! It’s safe to say that if you have these games on any other format you can stop reading now because you don’t need to buy this version – they’re essentially the same.
#THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2 AND 3 RETURN WII U SERIES#
The House of the Dead (HotD) series began in arcades in 1996, while House of the Dead 2 and 3 originally came out in 19 respectively. So it would seem that the House of the Dead 2 and 3 Return is a good fit for the Wii, but does that matter when these games are so old? Since then, the most obvious and common implementation of this function has been using the pointer to shoot at the screen like a light gun House of the Dead games have always used this type of setup – so an attempt to bring these arcade favourites to the Wii’s old and new audiences was always going to happen. When the Wii Remote was first shown, much was made of its ability to point at the screen.

Arcades may not be as popular as they once were, but it could be argued that the experience they offer is not dissimilar to that which has made the Wii so successful.
