I own House of the Dead on the Sega Saturn (not to mention the third one for XBox) and this sequel proved to be worth the wait (for me). This game lined up with Jet Grind Radio, Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 in my great Dreamcast collection, and those are the best games in my Dreamcast collection. I read the reviews before buying it, though, and I noticed that quite a few people were mentioning how crappy the game was without the light gun. So I bought the light gun for my Dreamcast, just for this game, and it is WORTH IT! The graphics are awesome, just like the others, even though the voice acting is one of the worst I've heard in a video game. I haven't tried the game with the controller, I've only spent my times playing with the gun, so read other peoples' reviews if you want to get the idea. The save-the-hostages thing is also really cool-I still haven't completed the game with rescuing all of the hostages (argh! so frustrating!), but you can easily set your game to Easy, Medium or Hard. It's much better than the first one, you can tell, from the graphics to the game play and right down to the light gun compatibility, House of the Dead 2 has it all!