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The House Of The Dead EX Is All About Zombie Love And Mini-Games
Posted by Michael McWhertor at 9:40 AM on July 4, 2008
Zombie romance, zombie bowling, zombie rock and roll -- all key components of the next The House of the Dead. At least, that's what we can glean from Sega's whacked out promo flyer for The House of the Dead EX, a more comedic, more casual spin-off for the light gun series that brings with a foot pedal a la Time Crisis and a whole mess of crazy. Looks like some of the games in The House of the Dead EX will require just the gun, with others, like bat-thing riding requiring the use of the pedal.
Honestly, we have no idea what's going on here yet, but we like Sega has tossed on an off-kilter anime style to the whole thing. We actually liked the cel-shaded The House of the Dead III and were crushed when Sega nixed it for a more photorealistic look.
Sega is showing off the new arcade light-gun shooter at the Sega Private Show in Japan and we're anxiously awaiting more details.
House of the Dead EX [AM-net]
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Sadgasim
Posted 10:28 AM 4/7/08
How long can a company run on a franchise...(I should probably just ask Square)
Sadgasim
HikariOblivion
Posted 10:16 AM 4/7/08
i think it looks cool..
would love to see a console version, hint hint XD
HikariOblivion
darkmdbeener
Posted 10:02 AM 4/7/08
looks intereasting. loved the other games but it does look like they went a difrent way with it. (not bad or good). that reminds me i need to buy time crysis
darkmdbeener
RTW
Posted 9:55 AM 4/7/08
Why can't they just call it something else. If it's not House of the Dead, then it's not House of the Dead. I swear, you gotta name something from a previous franchise in order to push it more, it's fuxing retarded. It's all about selling, selling, selling... shit.
RTW
pandafresh
Posted 11:07 AM 4/7/08
ha, dig that promo art a lot, very fun style. hopefully the game plays like those Point Blank games back on the playstation, those were fun.
pandafresh
fuchikoma
Posted 10:57 AM 4/7/08
Looks like there's still someone crazy at Sega left... could be good.
The title puzzles me - "If you can love, want to love?" or depending what's under the reflection, "More than being able to love, want to love?" But the "want to" part is in katakana so you could also take it as "CORPSE." lol...
It's too bizarre not to want to see more!
fuchikoma
PENI_MASTA
Posted 12:05 PM 4/7/08
Minigames?! I hope this comes out on the Wii!
PENI_MASTA
Chef
Posted 12:24 PM 4/7/08
@RTW: I think it's because it uses a gun there's zombies.
However, it won't really be House of the Dead unless it has G. I remain hopeful.
Chef
mackattack93
Posted 1:43 PM 4/7/08
??? why can't they just make a true sequel.
Though a console version would be cool
mackattack93
Chef
Posted 1:36 PM 4/7/08
@Chef: It uses a gun *and* there's zombies. Sorry.
Chef
maraxusofk
Posted 3:29 PM 4/7/08
looks sweet. hopefully they throw in a taste of space station 5 in there.
maraxusofk
ShikiMSHTS
Posted 6:48 PM 4/7/08
Jet Set Radio~? Is that you? ;_;
ShikiMSHTS
Gambly
Posted 7:40 PM 4/7/08
It will be interesting! :) Common Sega, work like u were doing in the old times!
Gambly
Bluetribal
Posted 7:39 PM 4/7/08
Talking about mini-games and lightguns, this reminds that the world needs a new Point Blank! I find it to be the most enjoyable lightgun game to date.
Bluetribal
eskimo-bob
Posted 8:06 PM 4/7/08
@eskimo-bob: oh, I almost forgot:
here you go, nintendo. 100 gamerpoints.
eskimo-bob
eskimo-bob
Posted 8:05 PM 4/7/08
@Sadgasim: I'm glad you thought of that yourself. nintendo does almost the same thing except they live on making one game from their eight franchises every console generation and they're still in the business after 20 years. that's an achievement.
eskimo-bob
Reetesh
Posted 9:16 PM 4/7/08
I wonder how the voice acting of this game will be :P
Reetesh
Captain_Sarcastic
Posted 2:13 PM 6/7/08
Judging by the picture you seem to be rescuing your zombie girlfriend from becoming dead...er. I wonder if the plot will be tied into the original games somehow.
Captain_Sarcastic