Score: 8
"Very good game, but a few bugs..."
date: February 10, 2007
This is a very good game, and it deserved to get on the front page, but a few bugs make the game extremely annoying at times. For example...
Bug #1: You kill all the zombies and all of the red things, but for some reason if you kill two red things at once with no other zombies on the map, it thinks that one of the red things is still alive, but it isn't. This causes the game to have no more zombies coming, but the level not going up.
Bug #2: If a red thing shoots a yellow ball at one of the zombies, the zombies die after so and so many hits, but if the ball hits a zombie then you shoot it, it still takes whatever many shots, even though he was just hit by a massive ball of glowing evil power.
Bug #3: If a red thing shoots a ball at a fake wall, the wall slightly crumbles. But if you throw a grenade at a wall, the wall explodes in a massive explosion, causing you massive damage (unless you aren't near it) but any zombies nearby take as much damage as if you had shot at them with a pistol one time.
Bug #4 (Last one, I promise!): After you run out of ammo on so and so gun, unless an enemy drops more, you completely lose the ability to use the gun, and then if an enemy drops, say, and Uzi, you will be able to use it again but all upgrades are gone!
Other than those few annoying bugs, the game is extremely enjoyable.
Graphics: 8, because of realistic blood splatters, good walking animations (in one animation, towards the end of a step, the gun seems to disappear, which is why it wasn't 9), and because explosions don't hang on the last frame like in some other games.
Style: 9, because even though there are other zombie-shooting games, this one uses the full potential, and draws on advancements from other versions.
Sound: 7, because gunshots sound realistic, but not exactly like the real guns (A pistol doesn't sound like old flint-locking ones any more, necessarily).
Violence: 9, and I don't think this needs to be explained ;).
Interactivity: 10, because barrels that explode when you shoot them, walls you can use for protection against hoards of zombies, grenades, and other weapons, gives you a huge amount of possible tactics and tricks, and even customization of levels, for example, on the castle level, plugging up all the entrances with fake walls, except for one, and load that one with barrels and keep it covered with an Uzi at all times, and every level just blast it to hell, kill all the zombies at it, and pick up the ammo to reinforce the fake walls. (This works, I tryed it!)
Humor: 4, because of the "Hold it" picture while it loads the level, and also because of the amounts of ammo and weapons you can hold at once. A pistol with so much ammo it's impossible to run out of? An Uzi with 200 ammo? 20 grenades? Enough construction supplies to build 10 walls? 10 explosive barrels as big as you are? A shotgun? And you still manage to run around about 3 times as fast as zombies. Either hes got strong legs and a good back, or this was done on perpose :).
Overall: 8, because though the game is a great game that makes full use of the "blow zombies back to hell" idea, the bugs take away some fun from it, and it gets repetitive after a while. Wait, shoot, hide...wait, shoot, hide...reinforce walls... wait, shoot, hide...it just goes on an on. Another version of this game with new ideas (i.e. zombies with weapons, not just the old "let me hug you to death"), and the removal of those energy balls (but not the red guys, they are a challenge to kill), would be greatly appreciated, and would get on the front page yet again, and get a 5 for every person that plays it. No joke.
Ktanzbi,
LordOnager
(P.S. I'm trying to make a review that takes up all the characters that newgrounds lets you use, with the last thing ending in a period. I'm writing this PS just to try and waste more space :0. Still another 188 characters to go...oh well. See you!)