You've got 25 waves, 30 weapons, and up to three friends to help you survive the horde. Welcome to Zombie Estate.
What makes this fun is the sheer number of zombies, the type of zombies, and having a few friends along for the ride. In fact I would almost go as far to say that multiplayer is a must in order to complete all 25 waves, which is quite challenging with 3 friends along for the ride.
Things start off simple enough, you have your pistol which has unlimited ammo, and not much else. The round begins and the small house you currently occupy is suddenly surrounded by zombies and the round won't be over until every last one of them is dead. The first wave involves the usual slow moving zombies and from there things will increase with each round. Every five rounds seems to give something of a boss round, usually giving you a new zombie type.
The zombie types range from your normal slow moving zombie to your big hulking monsters to skeletons that have to be completely broken apart to be killed to zombies that heal themselves and others around them to many more. One thing Zombie Estate is not lacking on it is a variety of zombies, and pair that up with the fact that their are thousands of zombies on screen at once, you'll definitely have your hands full.
Another thing Zombie Estate isn't lacking is weapons, which features four basic types (assault, heavy, shotgun, and explosive) and from there each weapon type expands in a few different directions. Featuring 30 weapons total, you can find anything here from a shotgun, medic gun, laser rifle, heavy bomb, fish launcher, plant turret, and many more. Yes the weapons in the game can get abit silly but they still do their job and they do it well. In fact most of the off the wall weapons are the higher end models that are turrets and mines. Still there is enough here that 4 players can work together and not be walking all over each other for ammo.
The area you play in never really changes, everything is open from the get go and the zombies will always spawn at the edges of the map. It would have been nice to do more with the house, board up doors and things like that, instead everything is just open and you'll have to deal with it. In fact I found it best to avoid the house altogether during waves since it tends to limit where you can go and funnels the already huge number of zombies into an even smaller area.
The graphics are another thing that will obviously jump out at you, and they work very well for this game. The old school NES style graphics really take you back and allow for alot to be happening onscreen without any system performance issues at all. In fact the only time I experienced any slow down was during some of the final waves with 4 players firing widely with the heavy bomb (a rapid fire missile launcher that fires at the same rate as a minigun). Even then it was barely noticeable and everything remained crystal clear on the screen.
Overall this is a fun game to pick up and play with some friends but by yourself you might find yourself outnumbered pretty quickly and not much motivation to keep moving forward. As a multiplayer game it shines brightly with plenty of replay value but as a single player game I can't recommend it unless you're a huge zombie fan. Still for a mere $1 (80 MSP) you can't go wrong adding this to your collection if you enjoy overhead shooters.
Zombie Estate delivers alot of content for $1 and has plenty to bring friends back for more. I'm giving this an 8.5 out of 10 and I also hope to see a sequel some time in the near future.