Shane at GameCloud writes:
"Corporate Lifestyle Simulator is an enjoyable and ultra-violence romp that would easily please those who loathe their desk job. The “Office Space” meets “Shaun of the Dead” undertone of the game wasn’t trying to accomplish anything new, but rather, create an amusing experience of mindless shooting fun. At $4.99, it’s great value for a shoot “em” up that’s filled with plenty of laughs, which can also facilitate all of your wildest destructive urges."
Whether they know it or not, these two games have a lot to say about contemporary capitalism, nihilism, and game design.
Continue Play's Jay Adams takes a look at bignic's isometric office-based shoot-em-up, Corporate Lifestyle Simulator, which takes the term "office zombies" a bit literally.
In recent months it has become fashionable to append the word ‘Simulator’ to games that are nothing of the sort. It sort of began with Surgeon Simulator, but has moved on to such a point that gamers are currently eagerly awaiting a copy of Bear Simulator whilst wondering if they should give Goat Simulator a try.
It was inevitable that at some point somebody would combine the industry’s most over-used concept with the industry’s newest tired and overplayed joke and so from the digital ether came Corporate Lifestyle Simulator, a game that has very little to do with corporate lifestyles, nothing to do with simulators, and quite a lot to do with shooting a ridiculous number of moaning zombified freaks.
