Last week saw an interesting week for games with quite a few good ones to boot! There were shooters, puzzlers, and zombie games galore! Enjoy the round up.
Zombie Estate is a very pixely zombie survival indie game. It’s quite fun and has great replayability, thanks to its many enemy types, playable characters, and usable guns. I downloaded this game thinking it was going to be the average mediocre indie game that you spend twenty minutes playing then forget about it and let it rot in your hard drive. This is not the case, as I’ve put more time into this game than I did titles such as Homefront. However, remember that this is a game that costs a dollar and I will review it as such.
The Great Gaming Crusade: "Zombie games are spreading faster than a zombie infection, and soon the whole world might be taken over if we don’t find a cure. Wait, do we want a cure? I love zombie games, TV shows, comics, all of it! I came across Zombie Estate goofing around on XBL when my girlfriend was over. The funny 8-bit-like graphics caught my attention. With a laugh I downloaded the trial. Fifteen minutes later I was punching in my credit card number to unlock the full game! It is so addicting! Mind you, there is a reason this game is only 80 Microsoft points. The graphics are very primitive, but also have a bit of charm and humor by being so crude."
Platform Nation: My first thought when playing Murphid was “Oh look, it’s Dr. Mario without the Mario character!” You’ll quickly find, however, that this offering from Decapod Studios is actually quite a capable puzzler all on it’s own. The game follows somewhat similar rules to Dr. Mario: match colors of 3 or more, and you clear all the same color pieces that are connected to that match.
