A must have for anyone with a need to kill!
When you start the game you may be wondering, why the hell did i tell that helicoper to come back in 3 days! How am I going to last that long when there is litrily thousands of Zombies buming about! Well you have a few things hidden up your sleeve, for instance a nice Baseball bat for clearing out the crowds, or a ranged sniper to take out the Queen infested Zombies. There is over 200 different items and wepons you can use to disembowl, bash up, or just make a mokery of the Zombie foe. Personally my favorite is the Small Chainsaw which cuts through the Zombies like butter.
The storyline you may think is a bit crazy, but then you just get into the swing of things and understand that its meant to be quite light hearted, even a comedy at times, you really start to get invloved.
The aim of the game is to survive until your ride comes back to pick you up, and in the mean time undercover the story behind the outbreak. Along the way you come across survivors which are generally baracaded in a shop somehwre and need help to get back to the safe refuge of the Security Room. The Security room acts as your base of operations, and usually the spawning place of your story missions allowing you to come back here, chill out and save your progress. The storyline however is completely optional, infact every mission in the game is optional and is totally up to you whether you are bothered to do them, or just rampage around the mall with a lawn mower adding to your kill count. You may think to your self, 72 hours in a mall where 5 minutes is equal to an hour doesnt seem that long, and to be honest, it isnt. You can get through the 72 hour mode in a day! But thats not the point, if you hadn't already of noticed but there are multiple endings, all of which require you to fullfill certain objectives through out your stay in the mall to aquire them. Each time you play through you get to continue at your current level, and so changing the way you play through the storyline. (hopefully taking out bosses quiker this time round and getting all the unlockables)
These different endings affect what you do next in the game, for instance if you complete the game with the best ending (A) you will unlock Overtime mode, and then onwards to Infinate mode!
These different modes and unlockables make the duration of the game much much longer, you want to come back to it to play it again and again just to level up to that maxium of 50 unlokcing new moves and equipment along the way. Its almost like a miniture RPG in the way your character progresses.
As you can probaby see, i like this game, and so should you! Get over the save system, this can be annoying at times, but at the same time makes it even better because it makes you feel that you really need to survive, else your way back at your last save!