It looks like The House of the Dead 2 is set to release on the Nintendo Switch soon.
PEGI has a new listing for The House of the Dead 2, to release on Nintendo Switch. They also gave the game an 18 Rating, with a note for violence.
Originally released as a light gun arcade cabinet in 1998, The House of the Dead 2 is likely the most popular title in the franchise, and one of the most well-known light gun shooter games. Playing one of two AMS agents, James Taylor or Gary Stewart, you investigate in Italy to find the whereabouts of Agent G, as a new zombie outbreak occurs in the Italian countryside, a year after the first outbreak in Curien Mansion.
Of course, light gun shooters aren’t particularly known for their stories, but Sega did a lot to expand on what it built on the original to make a memorable experience. Players will remember pointing their guns off screen to auto reload, and emptying their virtual magazines of bullets to take on waves of bullet sponge enemies.
The first The House of the Dead offered branching paths, but The House of the Dead 2 expanded on that further, not only with multiple pathways to get to the ending, but also specific events you can also access on specific paths. Like the original, The House of the Dead 2 also has a good, neutral, and bad ending, which you access based on how well you played.
The House of the Dead 2 has received many, many ports. The first rerelease came to the Dreamcast a year later, and then a Windows version came in 2001. In 2002 it was a bonus bundled with Xbox’s The House of the Dead III, and in 2008, it was part of the Wii release of The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return.
The House of the Dead 2 was also the basis of several well-known spinoffs, mainly the 1999 game The Typing of the Dead. That game actually had you typing out words to fight zombies, and it also came to the Dreamcast and Windows. Nintendo DS received a unique, but similar, Japanese only title called English of the Dead. Lastly, the Game Boy Advance game The Pinball of The Dead took a lot of elements and ideas from this game.
Sega did announce they would be releasing this game on the Switch, but they hadn’t told us about the release since. For fans who liked Sega’s recent rerelease of The House of the Dead, this new game promises more of the same, in the same way it played out in the arcades back in the day.v
