Shaggy the Atarian Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Called House Of The Dead Scarlet Dawn, this is the first major HOTD release in arcades since 4 was released back in 2006 (There was House Of The Dead EX but it was a weird mini-game compilation that never saw a release outside of Japan). It begins testing this Friday while it should show up in arcades around the planet sometime later this year: http://arcadeheroes.com/2018/01/14/sega-begin-testing-house-dead-scarlet-dawn-friday/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Cool. I miss the "grindhouse" version of Overkill that was on the Wii and mobile ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I love me some HotD but they are going to have a tough time competing with the Walking Dead arcade game! I played that a bunch last summer, then re-bought all the HotD games for the Wii for my light gun/zombie killing fix and I was surprised how archaic they felt in comparison. But I'm looking forward to seeing how they modernize the series, and I hope it gets some kind of home release. (VR mode?! Please??) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy the Atarian Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 I think they will do ok, unless they've massively changed the formula (which would risk upsetting fans if it isn't fun). They have paid attention to both The Walking Dead and Namco's Dark Escape - they have a chance to use that the others 'went first' to improve. Granted, House Of The Dead is not quite as popular as The Walking Dead as a franchise although HOTD will have nostalgia on it's side Guess we'll find out soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I just saw a video of House of the Dead 4 and I'm surprised they don't have improved on the animation of the wall-climbers for 4 games, also the script is incredibly silly. At least House of the Dead 1 and 2 was interesting. I hope this new arcade delivers some new things, at least in the graphical aspect because they are using now the Unreal engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I hope after it has a run in the Arcade that there is also a console version on the PS4\Xbox machines. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Interesting. I'd like to check this out. Truthfully though, I wasn't even aware there was a Part 4 until now. I thought the main arcade series stopped at Part 3, heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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