a hard to kill game worth it's weight in brains, but infected with starforce.
music, visuals, style, dialogue, jokes... all wonderful.
price wasn't anything to brag about then, but now that the game has fallen off the map it's a bargain. it's next to nothing now, $5 on steam? yeah, hard to beat that.
we think it's a good game, but there is a reason it's at $5 right now. it's a bit on the repetitive side and some of the gameplay is just tedious. there's a bunch of neat little tactics at the zombie protagonist's disposal... but it doesn't seem to matter much.
the most fun part of the game is just catching lone victims to form a little posse of undead scourge... then just zerg the barricades of defending humans.
maybe they could have done more with that to flesh out those moments. the game is cartoony and charming, but there isn't much to the story or characters. still, we have to say we do like this game a lot. if it wasn't for the next point it's score would be bumped up there with the present player score average.
what brings this game down in our eyes, and subsequently its rating, is that it's one of those games with the intrusive starforce copyright protection software unavoidably embedded into it.
that's entirely why we haven't brought this one out of the vault for casual play. we really don't even recommend this game to friends. yeah, yeah, yeah, developers have a right to safeguard their intellectual property, but if it bothers the consumers it'll end up killing their sales. can't say for certain that's why this game never got the acclaim it deserved, but we'd say it's likely a contributing factor. it's a shame though, would have made for a pretty cool franchise.