Dead good games get a Wii-run

November 19, 2007

Forget the clean shooting of Time Crisis and friends - brazenly blasting the faces off zombies with a shotgun is where it's at and now we get to do it on Wii for a second time. Yup, The House of the Dead 2 %26amp; 3 Return is on its way, hoping to give the similarly-themed Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles a run for its money.

As the name implies, the game will feature both The House of the Dead 2 and 3, which previously appeared on Dreamcast and Xbox respectively after successful arcade outings. This is especially good news for retro fans with new TVs, as the old home console guns don't work on LCD or 100hz sets, leaving many old lightgun favouritesredundant in the cupboard. But Wii-Zappers work with anything, so all is well.

As before, there will be innocent people to save, impressive bosses to best, selectable routes through levels and multiple hit-zones for zombies. Choosing a weak gun and picking apart an undead monstrosity limb by limb is brilliant fun. And seeing eyeballs go flying is funny in an 'eww, that's gross' kind of way.

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Above: The game is good clean fun. Apart from the brains,blood and rotten entrails, of course

Justin Towell

Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.