Touch the Dead

When you're looking for a few hours of zombie killing fun picking up Touch the Dead for the DS is the way to go.

User Rating: 4.8 | Touch the Dead DS

By Silent_Bullet | Review Date: June 1, 2007

When you're looking for a few hours of zombie killing fun picking up Touch the Dead for the DS is the way to go. No it doesn't hold a story that anyone will really care about nor does hold any real point besides shooting zombies and seeing how far you can go. This game might not be appealing to those looking for a story or some real objective besides shooting zombies. I'm not going to get into the "small" story because the core part of this game is shooting and to be exact shooting is all you do besides reloading. The game controls all your movement and yes that might seem bad at first but it gives gamers a chance to pay more attention to aiming and shooting instead of where to go. You do get some movement choices such as shooting an arrow sign to go left or right in some spots, however in general it's all automatic.

The audio on this game is pretty good however the graphics are lacking for a game made in 2007 even with DS hardware. Metroid Prime Hunters is a prime example of standards DS players are looking for, not graphics with such low polygons that set this game back graphically when Doom was released. The game play is nothing more than shooting zombies to get to the end with some boss fights. Some players experience some reloading problems, I've seen this happen myself. The main problem here is when you try to reload to fast and you think you dragged your clip into your gun you release to soon or don't hold down on the touch screen through the sweep process.

I picked up a copy on release for $29.99 at Best Buy, to be honest I have only played it four times. Not that it's a bad game, but because there are so many better games to play on the DS for 2007. With a low price of $29.99 you really can't go wrong with this game if shooting zombies, and only shooting is appealing to you.

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• Rating:7.6

  Quick and painless review: there are zombies; you're not a zombie; kill all the zombies that want to eat you.

  By Rev_Cletus | Review Date: May 16, 2007 | DS

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• Rating:7.7

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  By steff3121 | Review Date: May 19, 2007 | DS

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