Overall Score | 7/10 Buy on sale – BY ERIK PILLAR
Zombie Army Trilogy is a true delight to experience, for brief play periods or when hankering for a splice of noir and zombies.
Plot and Character
The plot is a base one, and it’s not the focus of the game by any means. Hitler, yes that Hitler, at the end of the war proclaimed to his generals that ‘The Father Land shall not fall!’ and to enact plan Z. This of course is how we get dropped into the game. Germany has been overtaken by the undead, and you play as one of over a dozen characters deep in zombie country searching for the source of the dead menace.
Each character brings its own backstory to the game, but ultimately your selection is about their look alone. Options range from Dr. Efram Schewaiger, an occult doctor seeking to undo his mistakes, to Marie Chevalier – a French agent behind enemy lines.
I’m happy to say that content wise your money will be well spent. The trilogy entails three episodes to play, each including five full-length chapters to fight your way through.
Mood and Atmosphere
Okay, I love the vibes coming off of this game. The camera sports a well crafted noir film, black and white with grain, and follows your character in a loose over the shoulder point of view. Everything in this game bleeds old-school horror. The screams of the damned around the corner, the eerie music subtly playing at your nerves, and the true feeling of being alone in a world of the dead makes for a worthwhile experience. Fans of the horror genre might want to consider this buy for the mood it instills alone.
Game Play
Everything here is smoothly made and works as it is meant to. I experienced no glitches or stutters while playing, and the various modes of difficulty proved to be quite a challenge. Ammo is limited, to a degree, and mostly only refillable by ‘safe-house’ locations and from scavenging off the dead. If you run out mid boss battle, you’re pretty much done for.
Most of my enjoyment came from a nice feature the developers added into the game – bullet tracking. Fairly often, only when sniping, the camera will freeze frame, zoom in on your bullet, and slow-motion track it from rifle chamber to the unfortunate zombie it kills. I never got tired over the many hours I played of seeing a perfectly scoped shot zoom past other enemies, over flames, and far off into the distance to come crashing through the ocular canal of a now truly dead Nazi soldier. Topping it all off is how we get treated to an x-ray view of our kill, and we get to see the bullet smashing through organs and shattering bones to sprinkle fragments through the air.
Non-sniper game play is enjoyable as well, and involves setting traps, blasting away with a wide variety of mid-range weapons, and as a final resort hand gun shots or boot kicks to nearby zombies. Melee combat should generally be avoided if possible, as even on the normal difficulty it takes one a few good swipes to spell your doom.
Zombie Army Trilogy was developed and published by Rebellion Developments and released for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in 2015.
BUY INFO
Interested in purchasing? Pick this game up on Steam for $44.99 USD, or over on G2A for a lesser $10 price.
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