Perhaps if Zombie Apocalypse wasn't so repetitive -- and blatantly so -- it would be easier to recommend as a way to blow off an afternoon with friends. Instead, it just serves as a reminder that there are better zombie-killing multiplayer games out there. Yes, Left 4 Dead costs more than Zombie Apocalypse, but you get so much more out of it.
Presentation - 7.5
Graphics - 7.5
Sound - 8.0
Gameplay - 6.5
Lasting Appeal - 6.0
Overall -
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)
I was looking forward to this, still might get it.
hmm. after that score Im considering sticking to L4D/COD5 for my zombie killing cravings
How the fu~k you compare a retail game to a arcade game
I'm getting sick of tired of these reviewers bringing other games into the review
If you going to review one game just review that game on its pros and cons while not mentioning the other game
The other top down one looks way better...Dead Nation. When does that come out?