{"id":117,"date":"2003-08-01T23:39:37","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T22:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-09-11T07:10:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T06:10:50","slug":"the-house-of-the-dead-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/08\/the-house-of-the-dead-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The House Of The Dead III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"red\">XBox<\/font>,<font color=\"orange\"><\/font>,<font color=\"green\">5\/10<\/font> &#8211; <u>July 2003<\/u><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/GameReviewImages\/houseOfTheDead3.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nYou have to get a piece of the arcade game action now that it&#8217;s possible on a console, I mean it&#8217;s a way of saving money isn&#8217;t it? This was the first game on the XBox to come packaged with a light-gun (a MadCatz Blaster) which is the only way to play it.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I thought House of the Dead 2 was better but it&#8217;s ok because when you complete the game it unlocks a XBox version of House of the Dead 2.<br \/>\nKilling Zombies is a good way to de-stress after a day at the office. The HOTD series is notorious for having the worst voice acting ever, however HOTD III was actually disappointing; they improved the voice acting to the point that I&#8217;m not laughing anymore. This is a real loss in my opinion.<br \/>\nThe big let down with this game is the light gun configeration screen which seems to routinely crash my XBox so that I laugh every time I reach for the reset button (Microsoft went through some perverted though process which must have gone: &#8220;our system will be so robust that we don&#8217;t need a reset button&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBox,,5\/10 &#8211; July 2003 You have to get a piece of the arcade game action now that it&#8217;s possible on a console, I mean it&#8217;s a way of saving money isn&#8217;t it? This was the first game on the XBox to come packaged with a light-gun (a MadCatz Blaster) which is the only way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}