It’s getting risky to step into the Zombie genre, mostly because of its blinding over exposure in video games, comics and movies, to say nothing of the humorous phenomenon it is on the net. Zombies are fun damn it! I can’t dispute that, I get the pop culture appeal. I know I wasn’t the only one playing Left 4 Dead into the wee hours of the morning. In the Indie world of video games however, Zombies are becoming a cheap way for a developer to put out a title that requires little innovation, story or style. All it needs is a gimmick and you will buy it. Play it once. Move on.
That’s what I thought I had walked into when playing this new title from Centauri Production (makers of post apocalyptic point & clicker “AlternativA“) and publisher Bohemia Interactive. Moments into this game I was ready to rip it a new one. Its humor failed like an NBC sitcom that was envisioned by a bunch of producers who think they are in touch with the YouTube generation after watching thirty seconds of Adult Swim. I sat through the opening cinematic with a straight face, acutely aware of how abysmally the game was failing…and I wasn’t even to the first screen of actual game play yet.
The first screen of game play was where the game splashed cold water on my face.You play a character named John Major who has no idea why he even exists and is only aware that before the black oblivion of nothingness let him come outside and play, a voice from the ether told him to go kill monsters- then BAM! He’s in a desert and compelled to push forward with said goal. His first contact is with a crazy gun loving hick-chick named Farmer. Local Farmer. Now this is more like it! The humor thing has been done ten times over when it comes to the walking dead so I really didn’t think there was any other angle you could get on the subject.
Minimum:
OS: Windows XP SP3
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800/ATI Radeon HD 2600 (256MB minimum)
DirectX «: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Recommended:
OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista/Windows 7
Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Quad Core Processor
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX460/ATI Radeon HD 5850 (512MB minimum)
DirectX «: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
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