This weekend I had a small bit of downtime while my girlfriend was doing her fishing dallies in WoW so I sat down with my 360 and thought I would check out what was new in the world of DLC. I went straight to the XBLA arcade game section and grabbed the Zombie Apocalypse trial game.
Think Geometry Wars but instead of wrecking face on shapes, it's zombies. The controls are almost 90% the same where your right analog stick automatically shoots in any direction you point, your left and right trigger buttons throw "zombie bait" which makes your character toss a pink teddy bear filled with C4 and all the zombies run towards it and boom goes the dynamite. You basically start out with a machine gun and unlimited ammo, as well as a chainsaw. As you run in circles avoiding the hordes of zombies, new weapons will drop (such as a grenade launcher, minigun and flame thrower) Every now and then a survivor will come out and you need to keep them clear until the helicopter gets them. All the while each different level (noted as "Day 1, Day 2, Day 3...") has what are called "hazard traps." If you have ever played MadWorld for the Wii, these will seem familiar. Basically they pre-existing hazards of the level that give you bonus points. Such as on the Airport day, there is a crashed plane but one of its engines is still spinning and you can shoot and knock zombies into the blades. The objective of each level is just to survive, as you have a limited number of lives to do so with. It has local and online multiplayer which is really cool.
This probably sounds A LOT like another awesome game named Left 4 Dead, and yea it is. You get to choose between 4 characters (a black business looking guy, a girl, a film geek type guy and a grizzled redneck war guy.) You get different weapons each level, you get a bomb that attracts all the zombies to it when thrown etc etc you get the point. Now I love playing L4D, but only on my PC, so playing this game was a nice fun little version of the game. I love playing Geometry wars on XBLA and taking that into a zombie setting just adds a whole new level of fun.
If anyone else has the game or ends up getting it, come find me (Gamertag: Nerdsbeware) and well slay some zombies!
See you at the apocalypse,
- Nerdsbeware out
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