so I totally got House of the Dead 2 and Confidential Mission and have been playing them on my dreamcast with my light gun. I was really pissed off at first because it seemed that the lightgun sucked and would never calibrate correctly. Turns out I wasn't lining up the sights just right and I was aiming the gun down a little lower than I should have been. But after figuring out how to actually aim the gun I had a lot of fun playing these games.
sadly, I think those are the only two lightgun games for dreamcast. Dreamcast was out around the time everybody was blaming video games for all the violence in the world (late 1999, after columbine), and I guess they were afraid to release lightgun games because stupid people would blame their kids' violence on these "murder simulators". Yeah, that's an actual quote from a stupid politician, "murder simulators."
Anyway, I'm sure everybody knows about House of the Dead, it's exactly the same game as Typing of the Dead except it has guns instead of dreamcasts and keyboards, and you shoot stuff to kill them instead of typing long sentences about jack buying hotdogs. It's fun.
Confidential Mission surprised me, because I had never heard of it and expected it to be pretty lame. But it's really good. The whole theme of the game is that you're a secret agent like james bond, and you go around and shoot everybody. It looks a lot like virtua cop in the respect that giant circles go around the enemy showing when they're going to shoot. The game rewards you a lot more for accuracy, and "justice shots" where you just shoot the right arm of an enemy to disable their firing but not kill them. The training mode is really in depth, with exercises like justice shot practice (shoot dummies' right arm when they pop up), combo shots (shoot the exact same place 3 times to destroy a target), reflexes (a bunch of targets basically flip over and you have to get shoot them before they flip back), judgement (2 dummies flip over at the same time, one badguy dummy and one hostage dummy, and you have to shoot the badguy dummy within a certain amount of time), and I think some others but I just can't remember. The training mode is effing hard and I think I'm gonna stay away from it until I have a better light gun.
But yeah, my new video card comes tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about that, I'm gonna have fun testing its limits to see how awesome I can make games look. I'll probably actually be able to use FSAA without it killing my comp completely, yay for radeon 9800 pro.
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