SFX-360 writes: "Honestly who doesn't love zombies! I know I do! I got play a demo of Konami's new Zombie Apocalypse game at E3 along with Chris and Brian. Take note her neither of them can keep up with my awesome zombie slaying skills!
The game is a mash up of the control scheme from Smash TV, zombie horror, and rude humor. The game is very easy to play so anyone can simply pick it up and get the hang of it in no time. With 4 player co op you can easy hop online and start shooting zombies with your friends. The premise is pretty simple, shoot as many zombies as you can before time runs out, for as long as you can!
Each level represents 1 day and each day takes place across a different map. There are only a few maps so they will start to repeat after a few days. Each new day brings with it a new level of difficulty in seemingly endless waves of the undead. In order to survive you will have to work together and keep each other covered as you fight to keep the undead at bay..."
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)
