The House of the Dead 4 Special is a two-player attraction based on The House of the Dead 4. Players enter an enclosed room, sit down, and buckle up. The game makes use of two 100-inch screens, one in front of the players and another behind, as well as a five-speaker sound system, giving the impression that enemies are attacking from all directions. The seat shakes when zombies attack, and players are blasted with air whenever they take on damage. The seat automatically rotates to face the players towards whichever screen zombies are attacking from. The game also features a new addition of a life bar. As the players are hit the life bar diminishes. If the life bar is reduced to zero the game is over. There are no continues.
This game features a side story in The House of the Dead plotline, taking place shortly after The House of the Dead 4, with Kate Green teaming up with G to destroy the zombie infestation at its source, leading them to confront the Magician, a boss character who returns after having been obliterated in the two first installments. This game only features two bosses, Justice (Type 0053) and Magician (Type 0), whom G and Kate encounter in a room of a building (which G believes it to be the source of the zombie infestation, and the building's interior is similar to the EFI research facility in The House of the Dead III). In the end, players have to blast a button with a grenade. The button itself will activate Magician's clones if it's not blasted with the grenade, and the players receive a "bad end".
If the player successfully blasts him with a grenade, Magician will once again be destroyed, as he says "Nothing can erase my pain". After Kate and G leave to fight on, the Mystery Man limps into the room, saying that Pandora's box has been closed, but ponders if there is any hope left for the humans, remarking that "the Wheel of Fate cannot be stopped".
In a two-player game, players are judged on how compatible they are based on performance alone.
In America there are currently no locations that this version of the game can be seen: The machine at GameWorks in Schaumburg, Illinois was retired due to constant breakdowns. The machine that GameWorks in Las Vegas, Nevada had has since been sold to a private collector. This game has also been spotted in Europe, Japan, Brazil, Russia, Dubai, the Macau Fisherman's Wharf, and in Hong Kong Mega Box.
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