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If you mean a version with Woody and Rottweiller, they probably tried to see if the core source code would put up with Unity, and in the meantime censored some stuff for having a cleaner name.
So you can expect a third, US dedicated episode, but I'm kinda suspicious this won't be as edgy since the dev seemingly don't want to go this way anymore.
Publishers from Russia used loophole in copyright laws, or lack of copyright laws related to localized names, which means that if you release game under localized russian name that differs from original name, its not a subject of copuright of original publisher and localzing publisher even may register this name as its own trademark and release its own games under same localized russian name.
NEIGHBOURS FROM HELL 1-2
in russian language was released under russian name:
KAK DOSTAT SOSEDA (How to troll\enrage NEIGHBOUR)
This name was not a trademark of JoWood, and 2 original games was very popular in russia and sold like hot pancakes, so official russian publisher which released NFH 1-2 - Russobit-M decided to outsource development for cheap bootleg games that copied visual style of NFH and gameplay and then released those games under KA DOSTAT SOSEDA 3-4 name just like NFH, with sa,e logo style, but legally it was not NFH, and those 2 games was released outside of russia under names:
Pranksterz: Off Your Boss
Pranksterz: No Rest for the Wicked
Funny thing is that in game it was not called Kak dostat soseda 3 and 4, numbers did not exist on game, but on box art publisher Russobit M decided to slap numbers 3 and 4 to trick customers.
Naive kids and teens and even adults was cheated to believe that those was official sequels, and many was dissapointed by everything about those 2 game... even i was victim of this scam.
Thosee 2 games was developed by VZlabs. 3 was way better than 4, and had bigger budget.
Publisher Russobit M merged with publisher GFI and then GFI continued this bootleg practice with internally developed games.
They developed and released
Kak dostat soseda - is rossiyi s lubovyou (NFH 5) - how to troll neighbour - from russia with love
and
kak dostat soseda - kanikuli oligarha (NFH 7) - how to troll neighbour - oligarchs vocations .
Those 2 like previous 2 was pure trash, one with all russian stereotypes styles, and another one centered around rich and poor russian classes stereotypes.
And between those 2 GFI outsourced another game to Orion Games, and it was released under name:
kak dostat sosedku - polniy glamoor (NFH 6) - hot to troll female-neighbour - full glamor.
Surprisingly this was really good one both from visual style and from gameplay perspective.
Catch of this one name was that its uses suffix that means female, english language does not have gender specific suffixes so it could be hard to expain, but ill try - sosed in russian is male-neighbor, sosed+ka is female-neighbor, in english both sosed and sosedka translates into neighbor with gender specifici suffix. So they played with words this time.
And this time outsource studio was really good one, so they made in my opinion best bootleg game in NFH style. Graphics of this one still looks eye-candy. It was in full 3d with minor cell-shading and actually nice looking characters (not those nightmare goblins from 3-4 5 and 7 that poorly mimicked original style).
https://ag.ru/developers/orion-games - this developer made few not bad shooters in stalker and metro style, you know with that post soviet ruinic apocalyptic style.
Meanwhile few other publishers released their bootlegs:
Dont remember who exactly released and developed those:
Kak dostat bossa (how to troll a boss)
Kak dostat bossa 2 (how to troll a boss 2)
those 2 actually was not in NFH style it was Moorhoohn with office clerks, original name of games was Shoot the Chief, i think it was actually german, but in Russia it was named to cheat NFH fans into buying it.
Buka publisheв game developed by Astar games:
Kak dostat studenta: perpoloh v obshage (how to troll a student) (NFH 8).
Never played it but it looks like total trash with stereotypes about russian students.
Around same time ND Games (publisher i worked for back than) released games developed by Jam Games and based on popular Russian comedy show OSP (ochen smeshnaya peredacha = very funny tv show) 33 kvadratnih metra (33 square meters - reference to a small typical chruchev period apartments many russians still live in), it was a funny satricial show about stereotypical post soviet family. Inititially 33 meters was just small sketch in more widely themed OSP show, but it was so popular they made stand alone 33 square meters tv series.
So it was not called Kak dostat soseda this time and was based on popular locla IP, but one of those game is know outside of Russia as NFH 9 Roommates.
These 2 was called:
33 kvadratmih metra - voyna s sosedyami (33 square meters - war with neighbors)
and
OSP Kak dostat kvartiru (very funny show - how to get apartments , this time dostat means that i literally means - obtain or get, not like in all previous cases where dostat means to get to someone's nerves or simply troll and anger someone)
These 2 was actually not bad, but they would not feel funny outside of Russia as humor here is very local. But gameplay wise they are good.
Outside of russia one was released under name Prank TV, not sure if 2nd was released and how it was called but suppose it was Prank TV 2.
Orion games that made good enough Kak dostat sosedku (NFH 6) moved away from GFI to Buka that released Kak dostat studenta, and this time they developed and released:
Kak dostat: Princ Persii i jadniy khalif (How to troll: Prince of Persia and greedy Khalif) (NFH 10)
Amount of bootlegism here is way above normal, this time they also ripped off style of Prince of Perisa and literally made this name a part of game's russian name.
But despite this, game was good in terms of graphics and gameplay and had this non modern style that added some fresh feel into formula.
Some russian gaming media sites wrote ironically that it seems that every Russian publisher now going to have their ow NFH (kak dostat soseda) https://web.archive.org/web/20161226114610/http://www.ag.ru/news/29-07-2007/17243
Out of all games Kak dostat sosedku and Kak dostat Khalifa by Oiron games was the best and suitable for international auditory, and OSP and 33 was sort of good but only for Russians, it would be very weird for others.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/498191
Yesterday, the Simonovsky court of Moscow issued an acquittal in the criminal case of journalist Dmitry Korovin, who was accused of libel by the former head of the concern "Russobit" Oleg gordiyko. The court not only recognized that the journalist did not want to slander the official and businessman, but also actually confirmed the assumptions of Mr. Korovin that the leaders of "Russobit" produce pirated CDs.
The reason for the trial was Dmitry Korovin's article "there Should be only one left", published in the weekly "komuterra" in November 2002. In it, the journalist came to the conclusion that the same people are engaged in the fight against piracy and the production of pirated disks at controlled enterprises. Most of the article was devoted to the former head of the concern "Russobit", which produces optical disks, and now the head of the intellectual property Committee of the chamber of Commerce and industry (CCI) of the Russian Federation Oleg gordiyko and his business partner Alexander Ligai. The article claims that Messrs. Ligay and gordiyko founded the concern " Russobit "together with the head of Russia's largest pirate firm" XXI century " Yuri Moskvin, and the concern's capacity along with legal audio discs stamped counterfeit products. According to the journalist, under the cover of the intellectual property Committee of the chamber of Commerce and industry, Mr. gordiyko is very convenient to eliminate competitors and thus monopolize the counterfeit market.
The Russobit concern consists of more than a dozen companies. For example, the division "Russobit-Print" is engaged in printing, "Russobit-M" develops and publishes multimedia products, as well as branches engaged in disk packaging and protection systems against illegal copying. The concern is based on the Russobit-soft plant, which has been producing multimedia and music CDs since 1998. Until 2002, the plant was located on the closed territory of The" enterprise for the supply of products " of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation. The capacity of Russobit-soft's production lines is more than 3 million CDS per month. The annual turnover of the plant is more than $10 million.
The Russobit-soft plant has been repeatedly involved in piracy scandals. Us Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow directly pointed out the former Ministry of printing to the plant as a producer of counterfeit products; The Washington Post wrote about pirated CDS seized at the plant; and the international Federation of phonogram producers (IFPI) is suing the plant, demanding on behalf of eight copyright holders (including EMI, Sony Music and Warner Music) to recover $1.5 million from it.
In the summer of 2003, Oleg gordiyko filed an application with the Donskoe police Department, and a criminal case was opened against the journalist Korovin under article 129, part 2 of the criminal code ("slander in the media").
The court proceedings continued for more than a year, while the lawyers of Mr. Ligai and Mr. gordiyko, Elena zvezdina and Alexander Nediadko, not only did not comment on the course of the trial, but generally avoided communicating with journalists. "Russobit" also became the center of several other scandals during the trial. The most high-profile of these was the seizure of an underground factory in Pushkino, Moscow, by employees of the capital's Gubep in February 2004, which supplied counterfeit DVDs and pornography to more than half of retail pirated outlets in Moscow. One of the production lines of the underground factory, whose equipment is estimated at $12 million, according to police, belonged to "Russobit".
The journalist's defense managed to refute the accusations of slander. A senior operative of the gubep of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Andrey Filinov, and the head of the anti-piracy Association "Russian shield", Yuri Zlobin, called to the trial as witnesses, confirmed that "Russobit" produced pirated discs. Mr. Filinov told about the search of the factory "Russobit" in 2001, when a truck with 1.5 thousand counterfeit CDS with computer games and pornography was detained. According to him, then the criminal case against the concern collapsed for a formal reason — a search warrant was issued for Russobit LLC, and the disks were seized on the territory of Russobit-soft LLC. Mr. Zlobin informed the court about the expertise of disks, the seizure of which became the main argument of the prosecution in the criminal case against the head of the company "XXI century" Yuri Moskvin, who was sentenced in December 2001 for two years under article 146 of the criminal code ("Violation of copyright and related rights"). According to Mr. Zlobin, a third of the 600 thousand disks seized from "XXI century" were produced at the capacity of "Russobit".
Yesterday, the Simonovsky court announced the verdict — the journalist was acquitted for "lack of corpus delicti". Since the court, based on the testimony of witnesses, did not recognize the information given in the article as libel, it actually confirmed the assumptions of the author of the material. Dmitry Korovin told Kommersant that, "of course, I am happy" with this outcome, " although there were feelings of a coin being tossed before the verdict was passed." Neither Messrs. Ligay and gordiyko, nor their lawyers, came to the meeting. It was not possible to contact Mr. Ligai yesterday — the concern " Russobit "said that"he does not work for us." The CCI intellectual property Committee did not answer the phone yesterday. According to Kommersant, all employees of the Committee, including Oleg gordiyko, are on vacation. Lawyer Elena zvezdina told Kommersant that "she can't talk or say anything."
However, further actions to the plaintiffs 'lawyers were prompted by judge Irina Oreshkina, who explained that" the journalist Dmitry Korovin defamed the honor and dignity of the victims," for example, by the use of the words "roof", "pirates", "a Merger of crime and business," but this "case is more likely to pass under the civil law code." In other words, according to judge Oreshkina, in the event of filing a civil claim against Mr. Korovin, the chances of winning the process will be much less.
I would love some official sequels!
I cant post links here, but use Russian search engine Yandex ( ya.ru ) and write there this in Russian:
"Скачать как достать соседа все части" or replace "все части" with any number from 3 to 10. Then try to search english localisations for them, not sure if its exist for each game.