The House of the Dead 2 (Wii) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Sega's light gun rail shooter for the Nintendo Wii, The House of the Dead 2, included as part of the 2008 compilation "The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return."
Played through the arcade on the default difficulty settings. I have red blood turn on and the crosshairs disabled.
The original The House of the Dead game was a pretty excellent light-gun shooter, and was a pretty revolutionary step-up for the genre with it's flowing "narrative", if you could call it that, along with its cutting edge 3D graphics. In 1996, it was seriously impressive. You can find my playthrough of the PC port of it here: www.youtube.co...
In 1998 the long-awaited sequel was released, to even larger acclaim than the first game. The graphics again looked incredible - they represented a huge leap over the original game's chunky, pixelated models and textures. Seriously, these graphics were stunning for 1998. It featured more paths, several secrets that could be found by shooting certain enemies or background objects, and some of the worst voice acting known to mankind. It was, again, a massive success. It was ported for the Dreamcast launch in 1999, Windows in 2001, Xbox in 2003, and had a few spin-off titles (including The Typing of the Dead, English of the Dead, and Pinball of the Dead), all of which met with varying levels of success.
This time, Agent G is missing in Italy and the AMS goes to find him. When they arrive in Venice, everything quickly starts to resemble the incident at the Curien Mansion a couple of years prior (the story of the first HotD), and before you know it, all sorts of monsters and zombies are trying to eat you. It's not a storytelling masterwork, but then, it doesn't really need to be.
It's fast paced and often totally ludicrous. Eyeballs fly, mutant frogs, swampmen, suits of armor, and god-knows-what else are constantly closing in on you, and the only thing saving you from become their next meal is your reflexes and a six-shooter. I'm not sure why they wouldn't just nuke the city, or at least carry flame-throwers, but then realism is the last thing anyone would probably expect of this.
The thing in my mind that really makes the game is how utterly-awful the acting is. The dialogue is amazing - the English is just intelligible enough to understand what is being said, and so off on how it's phrased and delivered to make the most unexpected moments sheer comic gold. My favorite has to be the woman running from the zombie in the first stage. What does she scream as she's running for her life? "No, don't come-!" It's probably the most unnatural sounding thing you could imagine someone saying while a monster lurches about behind you, and the heavy, completely unintentional sexual innuendo had me laughing so hard I that I thought my sides might split. It's sheer genius.
And it's not just the writing - the acting itself is beyond belief. Sometimes people sound totally bored as someone gets eaten right next to them, and sometimes you are left wondering WTF? at just how some of these performances made it into the game: Goldman - I'm totally looking at you here. What does that actor think he is doing with his voice? Did someone really think that yelling while grunting and closing your throat makes threats more intimidating? Even if you wanted to say that it was because it's a Japanese production, you can't tell me that Japanese people believe that real, native English speakers actually sound like this.
Just to be clear, though, those aren't complaints. They aren't criticisms. These things end up becoming some of the true highlights, and HotD2 just wouldn't have the charm and appeal that it does without them. As great as the original was, this one was a serious improvement, and the Wii port is (for all intents and purposes) a perfect recreation of it.
If you have a Wii, you'd really be remiss in not picking up the collection. I bought it when it first came out for $30, and still feel like it's one of the best deals I ever got with a compilation for how much I played them both. Sega knows arcade shooters, and this package is proof positive that they know it.
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This is some of the tightest House of the Dead play I've ever seen. This series is known as one of the most difficult light gun games around and you nailed so many sections flawlessly.
Lol I did it when I was like 5
That's not what "tightest" means, you spacker.
@@pinballwizard3467 🤓
The House of the Dead 2 is a classic Sega-light gun shooter that found itself perfectly suited to the Wii - it's a stellar port, and is just as violent, as difficult, and as hilariously poorly acted as you remember. I love it!
NintendoComplet
My lord I just bought it a couple of weeks ago, and even playing on easy mode makes HOTD 2 difficult.
It's the zombie apocalypse but the cat is grooming itself at 9:50 - "I don't give a f***!!!"
If you really want to be badass, play the game 2 player mode with a Wii Zapper in each hand.
tried it before and your arms get tired real quick
@@bluefacebaby1291 haha now imagine the arms of the poor James.
SUFFER
like G did?
Kinda funny why they didn't include HoTD 1 on the disc as well. I couldn't taken up that much disc space. Considering they were able to put all 6 of the original Metal Slugs on the same sized disc. Great port however and you get 3 which hadn't been ever ported to a console at all for some reason. What would really rock is if they put all of the games on the Switch somehow, at the very least the WiiU that way they can squeeze that last bit of life out of the damn thing.
Larry Laffer Apparently Sega no longer has the original code, so without reverse engineering and/or rebuilding the game from the ground-up, we'll probably only see it if Sega ever sees fit to wrap it with an emulator for the platform they release it on. That, and while the Wii could easily handle an arcade-perfect port, I doubt it could emulate the Model 2 or Saturn hardware at a playable frame rate
That's why you make copies and be careful with your source code. That way you don't have to start from scratch. I should know had Sierra not lost my 4th game it wouldn't be the Lost Floppies. Instead it would've Leisure Suit Larry 4 Go Upper Midwest Yound Laffer, a game where I would've epxlored the great "sights" the Upper Midwest had to offer. Alas that game wil never get made.
Yeah wish I could've made that prequel game. It would've been Leisure Suit Larry 1/2 Larry Goes Back to Basics. It would've a story driven story told by me in storybook fashion as I entered the spaceship on my way to the 8th Adventure, Lust in Space. What would've been cool is the game would've came with a paperback "or Hardcover if you bought the special edition" of my early history and previous adventures. Alsas that will probably never happen but who knows.
Larry Laffer That sounds awesome. Some crossovers with SQ I'm guessing? Iirc your second adventure had the Sierra character factory room when you died, right? That, and imagine how much fun you'd have on the planet of Amazon looking women!
Yeah acually in one Scene I battle Roger Wilco in a epic game of Super Bomber Chicken a Bombermanesque Space Chicken Spin off. Oh Amazons fun fact about that level is it would've played out as old fashion grapic text adventure. Also one level would've played like a Maniac Mansion type SCUMM adventure with the aunthentic control shceme.
This, HotD: OK, the Resident Evil Chronicle games, and Ghost Squad were awesome on the Wii and I hoped it would be the return of Light-Gun games as they are great for some random fun especially with a friend. Wish I could have found this back in the day when I had money on me along with Ghost Squad to have all 5 of the Light-Gun games.
No. NOOOOOOOOOO. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. I don't wanna die.
My god.
HELP ME AAAAAAH NOOOO thank you.
Who's here when it's getting port to the nintendo switch 😁
When?
@@Cosmos6745 it was supposed to be this year
I think they're actually remaking HotD 1 & 2, but it's likely gonna be for the Switch given you could use the Joycons as pointers like the Wiimote was for the Wii port of HotD 2 & 3.
What about THotD 4? That title have still not see the light of day outside of the arcade and PS3 PSN.
DarkZerol we don’t talk about that one
I keep having Phantasy Star Online flashbacks: the first level imp's laugh was reused for the poison lily in PSO, and the gold coin "shing" is identical to the hidden mine pop up sound. All these years and somehow I never noticed before.
A little bit
*we’re meeting G over there*
Thank you.
J.R. Trevino yesssss
I can just hear the "WHAT" every time you get hit
3:54 that zombie just slapped the soul out of that man
I always liked this series. I remember in Typing of the Dead they used weird keyboard proton backpacks instead of guns.
ESmith Haha yeah in the Dreamcast and PS2 versions, they wear the console on their back :)
So much nostalgia
This is such good gameplay!
My best friend and I tried playing without crosshairs recently and we didn't make it past the magician! (Didn't help that he kept accidentally killing civilians)
Even though you used 1 continue and had some hits, this run was excellent. You must have had some serious practice with knowing your aiming locations, because your shots were so accurate.
House of the Dead 2 is a lot harder than the first game, considering its length and fast-paced action it has. I've completed the first HotD in the arcade without continuing, but 2 can be a pain because it's easy to miss hostages and get hit so much.
BTW, since the crosshair was off, did you record this from a real Wii?
+Conversus Wears Vans [Paul P.] Thanks! Yeah i think for me this is the hardest one in the series, or maybe equal to the 4th. It's stupid hard near the end. This was recorded with Dolphin, but I had the computer plugged into the TV and I was using a Wii-mote (paired to the pc). I put in so many hours on both this and the DC versions when they both came out, otherwise I think I'd have chewed through all of my credits pretty quickly lol. I've never been able to finish this one a single credit, that's for sure.
Buen juego me hace recordar buenos tiempos e incluso me encanto el final👍👍👍
This brings me back to when I used to play this with my older brother on the Nintendo Wii. I don't remember it being this short, but we died a whole lot and had to restart, which is probably why.
We did it over and over and over until we finished using 1 credit. Shit was so difficult to do. Idk if 2 players was easier or not. I can't remember if more zombies spawned as a result of 2 players using the game/if one of you died, a credit was needed, despite one being alive. Hard AF either way.
I remember this I played it with my Father a few times. Never managed to beat it, we only reached the driving part and died at the Boss before the Headquarter.
Just played this in time for Halloween. The car section after Kuarl felt like it glitched when the two guys jump on your vehicle, I died with not even a second to react to them. Playing on Wii though not emulator. Still an amazing game.
Those sounds on the wii remote jesos Christ that’s scary as hell. 3:02
But if keep switching games, the zombie sounds will get more and more terrifying. But if you’re on the highlighted game, it will play the zombie sounds every 10 seconds.
Liked the OG games better than Overkill as Overkill's story is written by somebody with a severely bad parental issues while the OG THOTD is basically RE but skip all the inventory management and backtracking.
It was one of the two major inspiration for Left 4 Dead i think.
18:18 This is the same sound sample used for Ice Brain zone's theme in Mega Man Zero 2. Classic
The House of The Dead 2 on the Wii looks pretty damn awesome
Your accuracy is awesome!
Any else was scared at the title screen sounds that make horrifying zombie sounds?
I like this game
To protect the *luife* cycle...
Didn't HOTD2 has different endings depending how many NPC you saved? Was this the best ending? I remember the worst ending was you meeting a group of zombies outside
Hanferd It had several endings. I believe this is the best ending. It's the best one I've had, but I suppose there might be a better one. If there is, I'm not good enough to have seen it!
Probably the best, since Rogan was the prequels protagonist and he making a cameo is sort of an easter egg.
The best ending is when Rogan Appears at the end.
The normal ending is when the people thank you.
And the bad ending is when goldman appears like a zombie.
You playing so good!😁😀
I run out of credits by chapter 5 lol
ヘッドショットの精度高めで好感が持てる😸
Shoot the chandelier on the first level it droppes an item, also at the well shoot the 3 zombies then shoot the bucket droppes an item has tobe in original mode, your welcome.
the final boss was my fav
08:10 WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?!?!?!
the voice acting sucks nut the game is a master peace even tho the sega dreamcast version is more like the arcade version woth the blood being green ooz
28:02 - YES! I AM!!
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My G o d.
Can you go through the other pathways as well
Do you have a playthrough of HOD3? I can't seem to find it.
+Tordsworld I haven't uploaded it yet. I do have Typing of the Dead 2 up though, and that's based on Hotd3 :)
Does anyone has this on the homebrew channel?
need help setting this up?
Don't you just have to set it up like any other wii backups..?
Yup... The voice acting IS bad in HOTD 2.
At least HOTD4's Goldman sounded more like he wanted to change the world with a sinister British accent.
hmm hmm hmm hmm hmmmm....this...is...goldman.
Keith Martin
Robert Baxter
Christy Ryan
Wild Dog
Ernesto Diaz
Dude this is not time crisis 2
Doesn't appear to be as gloomy and immersive as the first one. It's probably due to the setting not being a laboratory mansion. The bosses are also cooler on the first one. Well at least this game has Magician.
Voice acting is high quality as always, lol.
I cringe at the voice acting
House of the dead 2 and 3 for wii has an better graphic not too much highlighted
On the PC It is to highlighted like 100%
HotD3 on Wii looks worse than the original game did. The textures are all much lower quality, and the whole thing is being run at a lower resolution.
Why are Wii Zapper hard to get at a stealing price?!
CNFunnyJon They're pretty cheap already. There are a couple of places around here where you can get the Zapper for like $7.
@@NintendoComplete I think he/she meant the official Nintendo zapper which can be found for 20~40 USD online. Not worth the buy, imo. Other than the price, the zapper is also kinda awkward to hold with one hand. I haven't played this game before but I'm guessing you don't need a nunchuk for it..? You can find the generic one handed guns for hella cheap, and comes in black, too.
@@lemons2300 I know, that's what I meant. A local shop that I got to sells them for $7. I bought a replacement for mine from there.
I like it for some games. Since it's biggest and you can hold it with 2 hands, I find that my right wrist doesn't get as tired and achy using it for long times as it does using the Wiimote only
Zapper looks weird, rather something that shaped more like gun, that also allow more freedom with nunchuk as it's not bound by the zapper
Wassup, G?
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa SUP?
nice pausing on thumbnail
Too many fucking annotations
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