Zombie Shooter

Made by a Russian team, Zombie Shooter is clearly a budget title: it's short, it does not have a lot of content, its isometric graphics look straight out of the nineties, and it does not even try to have a story or any kind of narrative substance. As the title suggests, all you'll do here is shoot zombies, without interruption. Fortunately, this game is very good at what it does. Similar to other horde shooters like Serious Sam, the game is all about getting trapped in large areas with hundreds of hostiles and slaughtering them all. The strategy is mostly simple: stay mobile, don't get cornered, kill the most dangerous enemies first, choose the gun best adapted to the situation, keep an eye on your ammo and life meters... and never stop pulling the trigger. The gameplay is entirely comprised of mowing down entire packs of undead (and braindead) monsters, some of which can be pretty tough to fight, and it's great: the amount of action on screen is just insane. It also gets absurdly challenging: it's common to fight a certain enemy as a boss, before facing ten of them at once in the next level! It is thus vital to take advantage of the upgrade system, which allows you to improve your character and equip them with better gears and weapons - a neat, satisfying touch. What really makes this game for me is its sense of detail and effort: the graphics were outdated even at launch, but the environments make for cool sci-fi visuals, and the amount of havoc you can cause is wonderful: everything explodes around you, filling rooms with hundreds of corpses and splattering blood everywhere! The engine renders it all effortlessly, even on low-end computers. Unfortunately, the graphics and controls are not very customizable, and the game suffers from a lack of content and extremely short duration: less than 2 hours to finish the campaign, only two additional game modes, no multi or coop... Still, a fun little game that I wholeheartedly recommend. Get it on sale for a few cents!

Everything Alien Shooter does, it's spinoff Zombie Shooter, does better! Better graphics, better weapons, better level design, and even a gigantic end boss. There is an occasional bug where you get stuck in objects however.

For any one thing I might be able to say FOR buying this game I have about 10 that fall in the AGAINST category. Buggy hit detection, getting stuck in walls, useless weapons (useless unless you run out of ammo, but you're screwed by that point anyways), uninteresting story, mindless AI (for the things that aren't really zombies in the game they are brainless). But if you're up for some mindless fun mowing down hordes of zombies you're in for a good time.

Yes it's not very polished (as in you can get stuck in terrain, so can your enemies so you can cheese them), but I still recommend it. You level up, you spend money to level up your weapons, you only have so many weapons to best deal with the situation (even if there are better weapons than others), and there's a good variety of zombies to keep on your toes. And you can loose a good amount of time in this, so recommended.

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