I’m incredibly pleased to bring you the news that The House of the Dead 4 will be ready for download next month; available exclusively on PlayStation Network on April 18th at the very wallet-friendly price of £6.49/€7.99. This will be the first time this classic arcade light gun shooter is going to be available on a home console, so you can now relive those memories of dimly lit arcade halls, all those coins weighing down your pockets, and that moreish gameplay which kept you playing much longer than you really should have.
If you need a refresher of the game, the premise is simple: you play as AMS Agent James Taylor or Kate Green with the aim of saving the world by fighting against an old enemy and hordes of unforgiving evil creatures. Use your gun and grenades to blast them away!
Key features are:
- PlayStation Move compatible
- Multiplayer mode
- Multiple paths
- Ranking and grading system to track your shot accuracy
- Additional levels from The House of the Dead 4 Special
- Bonus unlockable PlayStation Home item
- Original creator interview
- Trophies
For a limited time only (18th April until 3rd May), Plus members will also have access to a 30% discount on the full game, with Plus members also getting four exclusive PSN avatars which are not available to anyone else.
Hopefully you’re excited as we are about this arcade classic coming to PSN, and if you can’t wait then make sure to check out both House of the Dead 3 and House of the Dead: OVERKILL, which are both available from PlayStation Store now.
15 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 5:09 pm by Catkiller1
Excellent price yet again
Shenmue 1 & 2 HD Collection?
Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Collection?
Tee Hee
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 5:16 pm by dgnfly
@mike
mind looking at the last blog post about yakuza dead souls.
i was wondering if you could rply 2 those. ithought it was a european blog post but seems james gallagher seems 2 post more U.S blog here than europeans.
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 5:27 pm by SSJ3_Bob_Marley
Lower price and more content than other companies offer with their arcade ports. This is how you do it, Sega.
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 5:37 pm by Bealinator
Very good price! Looked at HOTD4 on youtube after getting HOTD3 and it looks like a full price PS3 title, so not bad for £6.49!
Bring on the Shemnue! Big demand here, I think!
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 6:34 pm by ALhammadi51
Nice
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 6:42 pm by mariejoeandanna
Not excited – simply bored on all those news over games we never get in germany. Screw your [Deleted] release politics sony!
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 7:50 pm by CassyChan
Dogs of the AMS…
@Catkiller1
This was posted by Ziming a few hours ago (THE guy you want to subscribe to for all things Shenmue):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLHOjeZ8hO8
So maybe we’ll be getting a Shenmue HD, as well as Skies of Arcadia (great DC RPG!)
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 7:51 pm by Bilouze
F*** yeah. Any chances for a HOTD3&4 bundle ? And if you could also port HOTD2…
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 8:43 pm by HyperTails
Excellent news. Been playing HOTD 3 & Overkill lately and have been looking forward to this (and its at a good price to, bonus!).
Now if you could just port HOTD 1 & 2 as well.
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 8:56 pm by HyperTails
Forgot to ask, will we be seeing the HOTD 3 Dynamic Theme that the Americans got? And the Sega Blog mentions a HOTD 4 Dynamic Theme, but your post doesn’t. Are we not getting that?
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 9:05 pm by manutreble
Hope psn does not get hacked agian :p 1 it well be 1 year since the outage began
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Posted on 14 March, 2012 at 9:51 pm by maddogarchie64
aww I wish this was on the wii
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Posted on 15 March, 2012 at 8:51 am by quidditys_shore
£4.55!!!!!! excellent price for PS+!!!!!!
i also would love shenmue 1 & 2! (never played 3 on xbox but you may as well add it in!)
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Posted on 15 March, 2012 at 10:57 am by Catkiller1
@ CassyChan
Thanks for the link I appreciate it! Although it was teased it pretty much confirms it. I hope Shenmue 2 is included too, but maybe they’ll hold off & see how well Shenmue sells first!
Very happy with this news I just hope they’re released this year, sooner rather than later!
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Posted on 15 March, 2012 at 6:45 pm by CassyChan
No problemo Catkiller1, I know I’ll be buying Shenmue HD the second it goes up (if/when it does)!
Sega have been on good form this year, Yakuza 5 sounds promising, Dead Souls is cool, Binary Domain is excellent and they’re bringing us more House of the Dead (though I’d still love a port of the best HotD, 2)
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