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Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:41 pm**

Top down driving game where you are a wheelman in a town overrun by zombies.

The story mode is just enough to keep the levels coming, but plays off every cliche ever. Bad corporation. Bad military (maybe...). Etc. Lame shit.

The gameplay is fun, but repetitive. Essentially, you drive various vehicles around that may or may not be armed and run over zombies while saving survivors or trying to clear out areas. That's it.

The story mode could easily be beaten in a day, but there are multiplayer modes and other quick play modes that aren't a total waste of time.

There are 6 or 7 different cars, but I found it pointless to drive anything but the bus, once I could access it, in story mode. Few boards had a timer, and even with the leanest time limit I easily beat the clock in the slow bus. Why the bus? It carries the most passengers, can run over the most zombies, and is the most heavily armored.

To be honest, I found the faster cars to be far more difficult to drive. Tight city streets loaded with damage dealing zombies make fast cars with light armor that are harder to control the dumb option next to a heavily armored beast. the developers should probably rethink that design decision next time.

A decent game, but nowhere near being a must play.

If you see it for $2.50 or less on Steam, grab it. It's a good diversion. $4.99 -$2.51, take a look at it. Anything more, skip it.

4 out of 10.

Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:00 pm**

Someone took the Dead Rising vehicle sequences and made an entire game out of them?

Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:19 pm**

Dead Rising had vehicle sequences? Why don't I remember them?

Do you mean Dead Rising 2? I haven't played that one.

Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:25 pm**

Leisher wrote:Dead Rising had vehicle sequences? Why don't I remember them?

Do you mean Dead Rising 2? I haven't played that one.

"Sequences" in that the character climbed into a car & ran over things.

Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:51 pm**

They must not have been that memorable because I honestly don't remember any of them. Oddly, I think if pressed I can still draw a layout of the mall...for the most part...I can remember the clown, the hardware store fight, the courtyard, the rooftops, the gas station explosion on the flight in, the ending (good one), the area where the majority of gameplay happens, including the little shopping area upstairs, the guys in the pickup truck in the courtyard, etc.

But I can't remember a single sequence in a car.

Again, talking about the original, not the recently released sequel.

Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:00 pm**

Leisher wrote:They must not have been that memorable because I honestly don't remember any of them. Oddly, I think if pressed I can still draw a layout of the mall...for the most part...I can remember the clown, the hardware store fight, the courtyard, the rooftops, the gas station explosion on the flight in, the ending (good one), the area where the majority of gameplay happens, including the little shopping area upstairs, the guys in the pickup truck in the courtyard, etc.

But I can't remember a single sequence in a car.

Again, talking about the original, not the recently released sequel.

Wasn't there some part in the first one where you could jump in a car in the parking lot and run down the zombies? Or am I thinking of one of the other billion or so zombie games?

Posted: **Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:06 pm**

Must be another game. You can't get to the parking lot in Dead Rising. Right? Anyone?

I remember running on the outside of the building and not being able to escape. That was the point of the game. In fact, didn't a helicopter show up to shoot at you or something if you were outside too long?

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