It’s as if Sega has decided to cut loose and take a couple of gambles with the House Of The Dead franchise, and it deserves to be richly rewarded as a result. What you’re thus left with is a bit of a riot, all told. Factor in too that you unlock a much harder game mode, with more limits and more zombies, and you’ll find a genuinely tough challenge awaiting you once you’ve battled your way through the game once. And secondly, there’s real replay value here, not least in the fiercely competitive yet strangely co-operative two player mode. It’s simply terrifically entertaining arcade gaming, the likes of which we’ve not seen enough of on the Wii. Firstly, it’s a great couple of hours, especially so if you can contend with the very sudden jerks in camera angle that the game frequently likes to employ. We give this game an 8.5 out of 10 and you can get it here.This does, inevitably, highlight a weakness of the game, in that you’ll be seeing the end of it in a couple of hours. The weapons sound strange, like plastic on plastic or something and the characters’ lines thrown around are very cheesy. You can unlock a variety of weapons and armours, even high tech ones, but prices are quite big. Graphics aren’t half bad, mostly because they’re 3D, but the acoustics are a bit off. Levels are quite long and filled with explosions, particularly if you blow up gas cans to destroy foes.

We’ve also got a virtual aim button, to enhance zoom on the crosshair and we can toss grenades, use medipacks and rocket launchers as extras. There’s also a duck/reload button, that’s vital to stay away from snipers and grenadiers and also to reload your gun. We’re dealing with a third person cover shooter here, that has you using a left thumbstick to aim and fire with a dedicated button on the right side. We played it on the sub $100 slate we mentioned above and while the brightness of the screen didn’t do much for us, the game didn’t lag one bit.

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