The House of the Dead: Remake, an updated version of the classic 1996 on-rails arcade shooter, is coming to Nintendo Switch.

Announced as part of Nintendo’s Indie Showcase on Wednesday, The House of the Dead Remake promises updated graphics, updated controls, multiple endings, and the ability to play solo or two-player co-op.

The House of the Dead Remake¹ is coming to Nintendo Switch on March 10 in North America and March 12 in Europe.

Update (2/7/17):As reported by Polygon earlier today, The House of the Dead Remake, developed by QuadraLogic, is fully localized, with the exception of the original Japanese game's original Japanese version, which is still presented in early adopter-friendly English.

Interface:

The House of the Dead: Remake uses the classic menus, main menu, and pause menus from the original game. There are several new options and controls built-in, with adapted traditional game controls – such as touching the screen to aim, which was one of the original game's quirks.

Gameplay:

The House of the Dead Remake offers dozens of new weapons, items, and brains for players to collect and play with.

"You will not want to know what kind of nasty things they can do!" —Pugsley

The house that everyone fears is slowly but surely opening in a dark night, but now you know more than you bargained for. First, the creepy jellyfish-dash, and now the house rebuilds visitors mortally wounded. Dwellers the world over are beginning to believe that it is a menace waiting for them. Rotten brains have accumulated inside the walls, rising up from the pockets and tainting the house with the festering smell of spoiled brains. Hordes of throw-away slaves are enjoying their pardons, ahead of an old heart reaching out to lend them morals. Who is it that speaks out from within – "Come and see" – or is it just a ghost? Only you can find out.

Those who wish to survive may choose to enter into the open-ended map that exists outside of the house's walls: a mostly open world. You start by obtaining the keys for each of the house's four floors, then enter a power outage minutes later. Since this power outage also turns the TVs on so that you can see a cross-section of how the mansion's inhabitants can still think, hear, and move, the cross-section really does provide a map. Fortunately, the mansion's neighbours appear to be trapped in the central laundry room room. Some of them, convinced they are doomed, sell human props and bid on a vacation spot somewhere in the surrounding area. Others have made their way outside to the internet café. The few survivors who made it
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