Zombie Apocalypse is fun, for 30 minutes at a time. Then it just gets extremely repetitive and this detracts from the gameplay.
In the beginning Zombie Apocalypse is very fast paced and fun to play when you have some buddies over or whatever but then after the first five levels or so it becomes the same old thing. Each couple of levels does add a few new enemies but it all plays out the same. There are a few different modes which are alright, and if you want to beat the game have fun tackling it's 55 levels. I must say though when you get to the higher levels they can become very tough and require some strategy to complete. The chainsaw only mode is fun as well giving the player a new challenge.
The one thing I did really like about this game was the character models, they were quite entertaining. ZA offers a Hero type, a Girl, a Computer Geek, and an old Army General type guy. It provides a little humor.
Finally come the graphics and sound, for a bird's eye view type game the graphics are pretty detailed and do show some depth and when you hit a zombie with a shotgun or saw it in half with a chainsaw it does so smoothly and accurately. The sound in this game isn't amazing you hear zombie groans, gunshots, chainsaws, and the occasional "Help me!" from an uninfected. The sounds are very generic and although add to the game quality a little, don't do much.
So I guess for a ten dollar game Zombie Apocalypse is o.k. but I don't really recommend it. If you want a good game for around this price go get Fat Princess, because this game doesn't really cut it.
For some time, zombies in video games were associated with only one franchise: Resident Evil. The shambling monstrosities in the 1996 classic were so iconic that they defined the undead horde for a generation of players. Recently, though, they've begun to show their rotting faces in many titles. It's become de rigueur for designers to populate their games with a range of variations on rejects from Michael Jackson's Thriller, but why?
I know I might be wrong but I am going to say because of how well received Call Of Duty: World At War Zombies was received. After that, companies took the lemmings route and decided to implement zombies into every Tom Dick and Harry of a game.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at what Treyarch did because it made the game fun but I am disappointed at the other companies that put in unnecessary undead in order for their game to pocket sales.
I think zombies are an interesting genre...It is a shame that so many crappy games tried to copy and paste the formula from the bigger companies and just over-saturate the market with bland zombie games. Same thing occurred with the alien genre.
There actually is plenty of room for an innovative zombie game.
Old-school zombie shooting fun awaits!
Like movies, video games go through fads. When it comes to bad guys, for example, we experienced the street thug phase, followed by Nazis (we hate those guys) and most recently, zombies. At this point, the undead are so popular that it’s impossible to go an entire month without seeing a game inhabited by these brain munching creatures, either at retail stores, on the iPhone and for the sake of this article, in the magical world of console DLC. There are a slew of released and upcoming games starring flesh eating monsters, so without further ado, here’s a list of zombified downloadable content.
Chris Buffa (RunDLC)
