Okay, so I wasn't going to type this out originally. Then I noticed that this game is receiving more upvotes than it deserves, also none of the downvotes are mentioning the major flaw with this game that I ran into, even though I know after various tests that my problems with this game aren't a one time thing. So to kick this off right, let me start by just saying how much I love The House of the Dead. I grew up playing the arcade booth original of this game and while I never beat it, it still provided me with hours of entertainment that I will always look back fondly upon. That being said, I'm outraged by the injustice this "remake" has committed to my beloved childhood memory. New weapons? cool! New areas? awesome! All the graphics entirely dependent on Ray Tracing with zero structure? WTH!

All I wanted to do when I bought this game was to record a game session for my birthday, and right out the gate I had serious issues running the damn program. Nothing new on my end, mind you: my computer is kinda old and is prone to crashing occasionally. So I figured that maybe all the up to date graphics and 3d modelling that would have to go into this to make it a proper modern day remake was probably too much for my computer to process, no biggie: happens all the time. Fastest way to fix that is to simply go into the graphics settings and turn off the ray tracing. Now please do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but my limited understanding of Ray Tracing is that its a side program that simply adds more detail to the 3d models and their graphics to make a game appear much more realistic or detailed than it normally is. All its supposed to do is add extra detail to already existing graphics. So I figured turning the Ray Tracing off (which was on by default when I first booted up the game) would mean I'd be stuck with original graphics rather than the fancy new modern graphics, no problem because that just meant I could have a more "retro" gaming livestream instead.

Do you know what I wasn't expecting? The entire mansion as well as half the monsters to completely vanish. The ray tracing is on by default because the 3d modelling for the game is practically non existent, the only things in the game with 3d models are the monsters and they're not even fully fleshed out. The game's ray tracing is actively being used to hide the fact that whoever "remade" this game didn't actually do anything. It is no exaggeration on my part when I say %98 of this "remake" is actually a reskin with zero modern graphics, 3d modelling, or even detail. And I know this outrageous discovery wasn't a flaw on my end, because the exact same malfunctions occurred every single time I restarted the game and nothing corrected itself or even glitched differently. The entire game environment is ray traced with nothing substantial supporting it, and the monster models are incomplete their flaws hidden again by the ray tracing.

I don't know if anybody is even going to read this, but this is my final verdict: This "game" isn't worth money. Until the developers actually remake the game, if ever, it should be illegal for them to charge money for a game that zero actual game design was put into.

Before Boomer Shooters were a thing, there were Arcade Shooters.

it goofy sad that sega lost the source code to all original light gun games would've been cool to see the original games be on here