This week’s entry is called Zafehouse and it’s a zombie survival simulator. The focus is not on action, like many zombie games, but instead your goal is search the surrounding area for survivors and resources and try to stay alive for 72 days. It’s a fun spin on things and takes me back to the early days of text based computer games. You can download it directly here.
A supposed media leak revealed several new video games that may be under development, the coolest of which is Spider-Man vs. Marvel Zombies. According to the source, the game takes place in the year 2149 in “a warped version of Earth” where everyone’s favorite web-slinging superhero must fight the zombie hordes or become a zombie himself. If this takes place in 2149, wouldn’t Spider-Man be dead?
At any rate, this is all still rumor until any official announcements are made. As usual, the ZRC will do our best to keep you updated!
Via Joystiq.
According to a published (then retracted) preview on GamesRadar, the upcoming Resident Evil 5 will support online cooperative play and sport a new “duck and cover” play system.
The online co-op makes it possible for other players to drop in and out throughout the entire game. This will undoubtedly allow players to make the game as much (or little) of a communal experience as they desire. When an online player is not available, the game will substitute an AI character in their place.
The duck and cover system is similar to that seen in other recent games and will allow players to hide behind a wall and shoot their weapons around the corner. This is the first time the technique will be used in a Resident Evil game.
Stubbs the Zombie was one of those quirky video games that never really picked up steam. It’s too bad, as it was one of the only games ever made that lets you play as a zombie instead of killing them. However if you missed it when it originally came out, next week it will be available for download through the Xbox Originals service. Stubbs the Zombie made number 4 on The ZRC’s Top 5 Zombie Video Games of All Time, so check it out if you can!
The game follows a foreign film crew in Japan who find themselves stuck in the middle of a zombie outbreak. Gameplay, of course, consists mostly of using various weapons to attack zombies, but there are some unique twists. You’ll have the ability to execute dramatic “finishing moves” (`ala Mortal Kombat) that lets you dispose of zombies in creative and cinematical ways. The game also takes advantage of the motion sensing capabilities of the SIXAXIS controller. For example, in order wake your character up from a stupor you’ll shake the controller to wake him up, and to reload your weapon you can just tilt the controller to one side.
There has been no official word from Sony on a US release, but based on the English dialog in the demo it’s suspected that it will come stateside at some point. We’ll keep you updated!
Sierra Online announced several new games coming to the XBox Live Arcade this summer. One of the titles, Zombie Wranglers of course stood out to us. In the game, players will be able to choose from multiple characters with different zombie-fighting abilities. With kid-friendly graphics it looks like it could be fun!
Via Kotaku
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return is the Nintendo Wii port of a long running series of arcade games by Sega. It’s a quick, pick-up-and-play game that offers fun for both the hardcore gamer as well as the more casual video game fans.
Similar to the arcade games, this port has the player utilize the Wii remote as a light gun to blast away at endless hordes of zombies. Gameplay is simple: just point your Wii remote at the zombies on the screen and press the trigger button to shoot them; reload by pointing off-screen. Although on paper is sounds simple enough, when faced with multiple enemies all dodging your bullets it can become quite frantic. Add to this strangers in need of saving, secret areas, and multiple play options and you have a robust package with lots of replayability.
House of the Dead 2 was originally released in 1998, and unfortunately the graphics look a little dated. There is some horrendous voice acting to go along with a barely comprehensible plot, but these don’t really take away from the game’s overall experience. In House of the Dead 2, the original arcade experience is left largely in tact. The one major difference is that from the start you are only given 4 credits to work with compared to the limited-only-by-the-amount-of-quarters-you-want-to-spend experience of the arcade game. The game also includes an “original” mode which is like the arcade game but with a few role-playing elements scattered throughout.
House of the Dead 3 is a little more recent release (2002) and the improvement made to the graphics really shows. The environments and zombies are much more realistic looking. Gameplay is much the same as House of the Dead 2, but feels like there are less “cheap shots” taken where a hit seems unavoidable. House of the Dead 3 also features an “extreme” mode with more play options and harder difficulty level.
Overall, it’s a fun quick game that you can feel comfortable investing as little or as much of your time into. Bring over a friend for some two player action and you won’t regret it.
Check out this new downloadable PC first person shooter game Cry of the Infected, from Cyborg Arm Games. You can play a demo here, or download it for $4. From their press release:
How Would You Like To Be A Zombie?
Cyborg Arm Games breaks the zombie video game mold with their new PC first person shooter: Cry of the Infected. In a unique twist on zombie games, gamers can feel what it might be like to be a raging zombie. An entire city of civilians has been turned into zombies as a result of a biological warfare experiment gone wrong. Gamers play as Robert, a zombie trying to find his missing wife in a city torn apart by the outbreak. Groups of soldiers shoot anything that moves out of their own fear and loss of control. Some zombies attack their own kind in fits of agony. Perhaps worst of all is the crushing hopelessness that Robert must overcome as he rips and tears his way through this abandoned city.
“The story is really told through two perspectives,” said Luke Porter, creator of Cry of the Infected, “You experience this gruesome environment as a zombie, but you also find pieces of a letter from one of the soldiers assigned to contain the zombie outbreak.”
For only $4, gamers can experience 13 levels of action bound together by a compelling story and game environment. The main game contains 1-2 hours of gameplay, and the game can be replayed for an alternate ending and an unlockable secret weapon.
It looks like it could be pretty fun, check out this preview of the game play:
Gammick is releasing a new zombie game, Zombie BBQ, for the Nintendo DS. You can see a short flash video with some game play shots, in the header, when you visit their site. Here’s the info on the game:
Fry those zombies up!
Alter saving her grandmother from the claws of the Wolf and its army of the evil everything seemed to have gone back to normal. Nothing further from reality. With the recent and tragic death on combat of the woodman, an invasion of leper zombies endangers once again the peace in the world.
Zombie BBQ is a really fun shooter for Nintendo DS™, where you have to move forward by shooting down every living (or dying) creature in your path! Use the great arsenal of weapons at your disposal to do away with the savage hoards of zombies. Shoot, blast, massacre, bombard and burn your enemies to the bone with a simple touch of your stylus on the console screen. Can you save fairy tale land or will you let its creatures live an unhappy-ever-after-life?
It’s scheduled for a October ‘08 release.
PowerUp Studios just announced their new 3D action shooter zombie game NOMBZ: Night of a Million Billion Zombies!, for the Windows PC. Here’s some info on the game:
• 5 playable characters, each with unique weapons and abilities!
• 25 levels!
• Hundreds of zombie enemies, all hungry for your delicious human brains!
• 3D game engine that uses PS/VS 2.0 shaders on high-end PCs, and falls back to fixed function rendering on low-end PCs!
You can play the demo for the game here, and it’s availble for purchase directly from their website, as a download, for $14.99.
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