Alright, I haven’t seen Zombieland, the film, but hear it’s good. Sometimes things take a while to get here (the Czech Republic) and so if it arrives, I’ll be sure to catch it.
Until then I can do some serious zombie slaying on my iPhone with the Zombieland game from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Xpressed. Right from the get go, it’s a zombie killing festival. The game offers both a story mode and a ’killing chambers’ mode which is equivalent to a non-stop zombie horde attacking you like several other games have incorporated lately.
The game gives you some basic controls move left/right, kick, weapon attack. From there you’re on your own against the neverending onslaught of zombies. I wonder if you hit 300 million kills the game ends because if it’s America, that about all the people in the country. Then again, who cares because there’s nothing like taking a chain saw to the zombia cranium for the kill.
Alright, that sounds a little on the sick pleasure side but hey, Zombieland is a game about killing zombies. It’s already a sick pleasure. The game can get quite frantic at times and with the touch screen interface and smallish buttons it’s easy to mis what you’re aiming for and get munched on by some zombies.
At times you’ll get mobbed because those zombies are hungry, and have a hard time shaking them off because the game doesn’t have a help menu item to remind you of the controls. So if you forget how to do it, you’re dead.
One of the coolest features of the game is the Music Picker. It allows
you to pick your own tunes from the phone for the menu and for each of the ten levels and the zombie kill chambers. So if you really need your Nine Inch Nails or Slayer to get your zombie slaying juices flowing, it’s no problem. Me? I use KMFDM personally.
Zombieland is an excellent example of a game from a film. While many others aren’t all that great this is some serious zombie stomping, shotgun blasting, chainsaw hacking fun. If you don’t like this game, then you don’t like games in general. Seriously, even with the minor flaws in the game, it’s well worth the download and the price ($3.99). Now get out there and start slaying yourself some zombies!