My favourite arcade game, ever!

User Rating: 8 | The House of the Dead 4 ARC
By Yoaxee | Review Date:
The House of the Dead series have always been my favourite light-gun / arcade game, and every time I visit bowling, I'm not leaving until I put my pound in this awesome game. Considering this game came out sometime in 2006, it is well ahead of its time. Graphics and physics have to be the best thing about this game, it is so realistic for an arcade shooter.

Voice acting has definately improved, hell yeah! No more 'WE'RE meeting G over THERE' computer-generated voices like in House of the Dead 2, there's more fluent and human voice acting.

The model weapon is OK, a micro-uzi. Reloading is weird, shake the gun. I skip this pain by simply moving my hand in front of the lens of the gun every time I want to reload. There are bits where the zombies grab you and you need get them off you by shaking the gun even harder -.-

I actually got past the first boss without a losing a life, which is quite interesting as this game looks really hard as you progress. Sega's magic huh.

Don't listen to the negative reviews, House of the Dead 4 is arguably the best in the series, and I hope it gets ported to the PS3 or Wii!

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