produced by Keiji Inafune
directed by Yoshinori Kawano
published by Capcom
platforms: Xbox
360, Wii
review by Adam Armstrong
11.18.2008
The
chance to be in a zombie apocalypse from the safety of your own couch.
Frank West is a
photojournalist with a hot tip about Willamette Mall. He has a helicopter drop
him off on the roof, the pilot giving Frank only 72 hours to find out what’s
going on before he comes back to pick him up. Frank finds that the mall is
overrun by zombies. Frank has to save over 50 survivors somewhere in the mall
while trying to discover the reason the outbreak occurred and fight of
psychopaths that lose their minds once the outbreak occurs. And if Frank can
make it through all of that he has to face special-forces.
This is one of my
favorite games. I’ve long since been a fan of the zombie genre and it is great
to jump in feet first and fight off a few thousand zombies. Almost anything in
the game can be used as a weapon from machine guns to lady’s handbags. You can
stick to the missions or you can just get in a car and run over some zombies
while you blow off steam. One thing that I really like is that if you restart
you can save all of your advancements and skills to the same character. In other
words, if you are at level 20 and get killed and start over, you are still at
level 20. I also like that fact you can go just about anywhere and manipulate
almost anything in the game. The down side: you can only advance so far and
carry so much.
Crosses fingers for a
sequel while he spends too much time playing this: 5 out of 5