Playing this in the arcades was a pain because the controller was a long and heavy shotgun that made your arms sore just after a few minutes. Was it satisfying to use? Definitely. But by the end of a single stage, you'll be hoping the cutscene is a long one so you get a decent break. The bosses are also the worst in the series, and all of them are pretty agonizing to fight against due to weak points being annoying to hit most of the time. The Xbox port is good just for the fact you don't have to use a heavy shotgun controller to play. Also the port allowed you to unlock HOTD 2, which was always nice.

I love the gunplay. The final boss is my favorite final boss in the whole series, also like the sloth boss...that's about it.
The rest of the bosses suck micro dick and stall for soo long. I love replaying the HOTD series except this one, it's short (THANK GOD) and doesn't even have a boss rush mode to replay one of the best final bosses in the series. The rest of the gameplay is mid dull same blah blah, such a shame cause the zombie death animation corpse moving, an aoe shotgun and zombies still moving without body parts plus the gunplay and reload time is so good but wasted on a short cash grab, also prefer the save your teammate parts rather than saving a random npc