In your first playthrough, you'll be spraying shots like crazy and just trying to survive, but as you learn the maps and go for greater scores, you start exercising control and counting your rounds before reloading. Yes, it's a much easier weapon to aim than say a handgun (and the reload here is crazy-fast, even for an arcade game), but the gameplay balance of HotD 3 is tuned precisely to make the most of this gun and to challenge gamers to make each shot count before they have to pump in more shells. With a shotgun, you can even juggle poisonous slime dripping at you from a ceiling - try pulling that off with your pew-pew-pew shooter.
A rifle could put a round through an axe-wielding walker's skull, but a spread of buckshot can take his head clean off, and might take a decent-sized chunk out of the lamebrain behind him for good measure. Blubber-assed blob enemies could suck up rounds from a Desert Eagle all day long, but if you punch a hole the size of a paintcan through their guts with a shotgun, they're suddenly much less imposing. Every aspect of this game is built around its gun. House of the Dead is nothing more than a lightgun shooter, but if you're going to get a point-and-popper, get the one that screams, "BOOM!" You might think I'm making too much of this whole "shotgun" affair, but House of the Dead 3 proves just how well a job can be done when you come at it armed with the right weapon. The most recent House of the Dead: Overkill had a wide variety of guns to pick up, but every moment spent away from my beloved shotgun was time spent feeling like there was a hole in my heart. Sure, HotD 4 has an Uzi and it always seems cool to just paint the world with bullet holes, but full-auto weapons and better graphics do not equal a freaking shotgun.
House of the Dead III is the "shotgun game" in this lightgun series, and thus, it's the game that racks my rounds.
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