"The House of the Dead was "complete crap", he admits, but he also reckons that's largely because SEGA didn't get him involved until it was too late. Apparently he had to make up 50 per cent of the dialogue on-set and it's still "cheesy" because "there are no characters"."
yep, segas fault.
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Its only taken me about 10 years to understand the water jug riddle in Die hard with a Vengeance. My brain takes a while, but it gets there in the end