What We're Playing: Review: Zombie Game Deadlight Has No Brains

The complaint with isn't that it's a zombie diversion in 2012. The complaint isn't that it's a side-scrolling adventure, nonetheless there are far as well many of those, too.

The actual complaint with , to be expelled Wednesday on Xbox 360, is that it doesn't endeavor to be anything more than "just other zombie game" or "just other side-scrolling exploit game." Not a singular square of it will astonishment you. You've seen it all before, but here it is once again in a somewhat repackaged way.

For starters, the story wouldn't be convincing even for someone who's never listened of zombies. It would be a thing if the diversion simply unsuccessful to do anything new with the thought of a zombie outbreak, that it does. But s discourse and tract points are moreover inexpensive to the indicate of hilarity. In a would-be touching scene, players are forced to watch a human who has been shot broach unforgettable lines inclusive "I've been shot!" and "I'm dying!" and my personal favorite, "I do not wish to die!"

There's only no reason for any person to caring about these characters or their predicament against "the shadows," that is the game's foolish word for what everybody understands to be zombies. The principal disposition Randall is a ruminating disbeliever with no initial thoughts but lots to say. The rest of the throw are clichs in disposition form. If you want, you can pick up more about Randall's backstory by anticipating pieces of his diary, but since the broad inlet of this zombie apocalypse, there's no reason to read them.

There are lots of games with cliched stories, but isn't uninformed in the gameplay department, either. The platforming-action puzzles are frequency challenging, solely in the too-common instances where you can't discuss it either something in the mood is a stage or a musical square of the background.

Worse, war in has actual issues. Even once you've knocked down a zombie with your ax, stability to pitch can infrequently mount them back up, causing them to turn a hazard again. And since Randall is cramped to relocating on a 2-D craft in an instead 3-D world, he'll infrequently be faced with zombies rising from the background, that he can't damage until they've stumbled in to together with him. For me, this resulted in a lot of frustrating watchful and whiffed swings, since it's frequently tough to discuss it where on the Z-axis the zombies are.

isn't a bad game, only average. Mediocre. Inoffensive. If developers Tequila Works created other diversion with a few more initial ideas, I'd similar to to fool around it.

But when there are great zombie games similar to Telltale's out there, "average" isn't great enough.

WIRED Great visible design.

TIRED Uninspired gameplay with a decaying story and clunky combat.

Rating:

$15, Tequila Works

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