So you see another shooter game sitting in the arcade... is it really worth popping in credits?

User Rating: 1 | The House of the Dead 4 ARC
Let me add some background to this, I am an arcade game technician... for those of you who do not understand that, I REPAIR arcade games.

This is one of those that we happen to have (2 stations of em) with low quality Mitsubishi big screen monitors/tv's You have these SMG style guns that you hold in your hands that are uncomfortable and are poorly designed. The ONLY thing they have going for them is that they are rather durable.

These Controllers have a trigger to shoot, and a secondary button to throw a grenade. They also have a feature during game play where you are being grappled by an enemy, you have to shake it to break loose. These guns automatically reload when you break the beam from the screen to the barrel of the gun (opto in gun). Many people are dumb enough to aim the gun off screen, where those of us just slide our hand in front of the gun to break that beam.

Onto the story line. The storyline is EXTREMELY generic. This one makes the movie DOOM's storyline seem epic. In this game, you know who is STILL alive. Basically you find yourself killing nothing but zombies and occasionally what appears to be baddies you'd see in Doom. Zombies... hellish creatures... wow that took a LOT of creativity!

Scripted speach: This is one of those games that needs absolutely NO talking from the two main characters. Their lines are horrible and the so called acting is abysmal.

Gameplay: Nothing but your typical terrible storyline, shootem up, zombie killing arcade game. Everyonce in a while you get to choose your direction, but the rest of the game is pull the trigger and wave the gun back and forth
on the screen. There is absolutely no skill required to play this game.

Sound: Extremely low quality and repetitive. You'll find yourself wishing you had your IPOD with you... that is if you can put up with this game

OVERALL: This is a horrible game. If you like to just sit there waving your arm back and forth at a screen, then this is your game. But since most of us prefer to play games with skills, by ALL MEANS move onto something else. This game is way too over-priced for one thing, and the credit to play it isn't worth the time you spend "alive".

The ONLY time this game is worth watching is in the summer when the women come into Dave and Busters in short skirts and extremely low cut tops. Why? because they are sitting on the bar stools trying to shake off zombies. Do the math.

Disagree? Fine with me. Simple people love simple games like this one.