House of the Dead 2
| The House of the Dead 2 | |
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Arcade flyer
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| Developer(s) | Wow Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Takashi Oda |
| Composer(s) | Tetsuya Kawauchi Haruyoshi Tomita |
| Series | The House of the Dead |
| Platform(s) | Arcade Dreamcast Microsoft Windows Xbox (unlockable in House of the Dead III) Wii |
| Release |
Arcade November 1998 Dreamcast
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| Genre(s) |
Rail shooter Light gun shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Cabinet | Upright, Sit-down |
| Arcade system | Sega NAOMI |
| Display |
Raster horizontal orientation |
| Review scores | ||
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| Publication | Score | |
| Dreamcast | PC | |
| AllGame |   |
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| Edge | 7/10 | N/A |
| EGM | 7.62/10 | N/A |
| Famitsu | 33/40 | N/A |
| Game Informer | 8/10 | N/A |
| GamePro | |
N/A |
| Game Revolution | B+ | N/A |
| GameSpot | 6.7/10 | N/A |
| GameSpy | 7/10 | N/A |
| IGN | 8.7/10 | N/A |
| Aggregate score | ||
| GameRankings | 77% | 74% |
| Award | |
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| Publication | Award |
| Game Informer | 99th Top Game Of All Time |
The House of the Dead 2 is a first-person light gun shooter arcade game with a horror theme and the second game in the The House of the Dead series of video games, developed by Sega for video arcades in 1998 and later ported to the Dreamcast and Microsoft Windows, and also found on the Xbox as an unlockable bonus in The House of the Dead III. The game appears in the compilation The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return for Wii. The Dreamcast version became one of the few Sega All Stars titles.
The House of the Dead 2 is a rail shooter light gun game. It includes an auto-reload feature that allows players to point their guns off-screen to reload their weapons without pulling the trigger. It also incorporates a branching path system that allows players to take a variety of different routes leading to the same point in the game's story.
The game served as the springboard for the arcade, Sega Dreamcast, and PC release The Typing of the Dead, the Nintendo DS release English of the Dead, as well as the inspiration for the Game Boy Advance game, The Pinball of the Dead.
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