Johnny Ohm, GIZORAMA - "It’s hard to look at the current zombie genre and not think about just how similar the market is to the subject matter: masses of simple, one-track bodies overwhelming the healthy survivors by sheer numbers alone with the sole purpose of robbing victims of their brains and wallets. Rarely does such a convenient analogy come to surface, but it truly feels as if zombie games themselves have fallen victim to the very plague they rant on about in their plots. Trapped Dead: Lockdown, an indie Zombie RPG developed by Bigmoon Studios, is just one of the many rotting corpses perpetuating this putrid parable by drawing out the genre’s interminable (living) death."
J Station X: Games publisher Headup Games announces their biggest Gamescom lineup ever. Their lineup includes games across PC, PS4, Xbox One, Wii U and mobile.
Critical Gamer writes: Trapped Dead: Lockdown is an attempt at taking the action RPG genre made popular by the Diablo series and injecting it with zombies. Taking on such a task was never going to be easy, as veering too far from the formula would be gambling on Headup Games’ ability to add compelling new mechanics. Adhering too strictly to the formula without the expertise and budget of the Diablo and Path of Exile teams carries its own risks in coming across as a poorly made copycat. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened.
To summarise Trapped Dead: Lockdown as “Zombie Diablo” should be seen as shallow and reductive, but it’s sadly accurate. Though it perhaps gives this game a little too much credit, since it removes all semblance of depth and polish inherent to the Diablo franchise and replaces it with painfully generic undead enemies.
Nerd Rock from the Sun writes: "I think, in fact, that this isn’t really a game. It is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. When you start playing, you’re a perfectly healthy, normal human being. By the time you’re done, your brain will have ceased to function and you will be a drooling mess, staring blankly at your screen, clicking and clicking and clicking because you no longer remember how to do anything else.
