I haven’t had so much fun in long time.
I was wrong; first of all you get to explore a fairly large mall. You might not even want it any bigger because I spend most of my time in one section anyways, Paradise Plaza. I was also wrong about the zombies, you don’t just kill them over and over, and they are the least of your worries.
You’re timed, I hate to say it, but the entire game is timed. You get used to it, it’s not as bad as it sounds and game spot put it perfectly, the zombies are just a roadblock. The story gets very interesting you keep wondering why the zombie out break occurred and what is up with all these characters you meet.
The game takes a while to master avoiding damage from zombies. It’s the bosses that are the real challenge. But you do find a many cheap ways to kill them so I don’t feel safe saying you find a pattern to kill them. But you don’t even have to worry about the time. If you fail your main mission and don’t do the side quests you can run around the mall, do whatever you want, then if you get bored, restart the game and do the main story line.
I beat the game 10 times although possibly more because the achievements and unlockables keep me coming back. I am the one who wrote the achievements guide but I still need 8 more because I’m too lazy to unlock them right now. (edit I got them all :D) Aside from the immense replay value, the graphics are fine. You do notice polygons and such but you don’t really pay attention to that, you pay attention to the hundreds of zombies that can be on the screen at once. On HDTV it still looks “Faaaantastic”, shiny and glossy things everywhere.
I still give this game a 8.6 but it is still worth the buy. One other thing to add is that the NPCs In the game that you have to escort are horribly programmed.