We Hate Zombies

Title: Zed Town (click to play)
Style: Top-Down Shooter
Source: http://npgam.es/

In ZedTown, or Zed Town, or whatever, you get to play a guy with a gun. This is actually not unusual for zombie games; in fact, it’s pretty standard. As this standard guy, you move around some maps and shoot zombies in the dark because you’re apparently a vampire and can’t hunt zombies at sun-up. Or there are no windows in this town, I don’t know, but every map requires a flashlight and is dark as hell.

As this quite standard guy running around dark standard houses in Zed Town, you’re task is to clear the building/town of zombies and otherwise rock out. I don’t know why you would want to cleanse a village with no other survivors, so the whole premise is kind of dumb to me. Why not go find some other survivors, then clear a town? Why take the risks on yourself? Why be so standard? And dark? And alone?

And hopeless?

Shooting zombies is good fun, I suppose, but every zombie game has some good-fun-shooting-zombies thing going for it. And, at that, there are only a small selection of guns that aren’t terribly exciting. Standard, really, except reloading some of them requires reloading one bullet at a time. Kind of a pain, actually.

Unfortunately, I kind of hated this game because I couldn’t have any fun running around in the dark with a flashlight. Maybe if I was playing at night it would be a different story. Maybe if I had the sound on I would have been able to hear the direction of the zombies without having to see them. But I doubt it. No, I think this game is just a good try at making a better game, and if killing zombies is the most enjoyable thing your game has to offer, why make it so hard to do? If realism was the goal, who would realistically choose to fight in the dark?

And what the hell is with that white box on the left side? Could the contrast be any more painful to stare at?

The only thing I did like was that each building had a little sub-story blurb you could read before jumping into it. This didn’t really help set the mood or anything, but it was kind of fun to see other people write about zombies. And the end of the world. Like me.

Game Score:

Graphics:		1.0
Sound:		?
Fun Factor:		1.5
Satisfaction:		1.5
Total: