Xiled Systems
Are you a fan of the
Walking Dead series on AMC? Then this game will catch your eye. The premise is one that will excite most classic horror movie fans, as I was excited when taking this game for a spin. Much like some of it's paid counterparts for major gaming councils, the premise here is that you pick a couple of characters that have to battle their way through the remains of a neighborhood, oh yeah, and there are hordes of zombies meandering about.
As you fire this game up, you are asked to pick your characters, each is then given a unique stat list that you 'roll' for and can even re-roll if the numbers look unfavorable. Brief descriptions of the skills give you an opportunity to create a balanced duo between an ex marine, a waitress, a cop, and a criminal that appears to pretty satisfying to the role player in me.
However, once game play begins, you start to realize that you have no idea what you are doing. Sure, there are objectives and rules in the game, but it's hard to translate their relativity easy directions into action once the game begins. you have grey and red boxes appear on your characters profile picture during a fight with the flesh chewing zombies, but it's hard to interpret what they are telling you, after several rounds I wasn't finding a strong correlation to the status of these indicators and when the character got his brain's eaten. After several deaths, I believe the strength of your opponent may need to be gauged some how to decide if you can survive a fight or not, and the game does not give you any real indicators for this. The characters don't seem to be able to handle more then a couple fights early on, making for a lot of running away.
Not knowing how tough your opponents are in each battle, and having trouble telling how up for the fight your avatars are, can make it very frustrating to advance in this game. There is a way to change the difficulty rating, but again, it is hard to determine what ev
Recommendation: If you are concerned with how you will react to a zombie apocalypse, give this game for a spin. Hopefully, by the end you will realize that surviving the end of days won't be as clear cut as you once thought.
Are you a fan of the Walking Dead series on AMC? Then this game will catch your eye. The premise is one that will excite most classic horror movie fans, as I was excited when taking this game for a spin. Much like some of it's paid counterparts for major gaming councils, the premise here is that you pick a couple of characters that have to battle their way through the remains of a neighborhood, oh yeah, and there are hordes of zombies meandering about.
As you fire this game up, you are asked to pick your characters, each is then given a unique stat list that you 'roll' for and can even re-roll if the numbers look unfavorable. Brief descriptions of the skills give you an opportunity to create a balanced duo between an ex marine, a waitress, a cop, and a criminal that appears to pretty satisfying to the role player in me.
Once in a blue moon a game will come along that is near impossible to critique on the merits of the game itself, because the concept of the game play is so outrageous. My mind can grasp a game that makes you a lab experiment monkey that has escaped with a jet pack where you collect bananas to purchase a motor cycle that allows me to escape the clutches of my nemesis, Dr. Howler, but this game goes a bit too far.
The story line is very thorough to the point that you may find yourself just hitting next 1,000 times just to get to the game aspect of it, but for the hardcore fans it's fleshed out enough to make for a good read. Also, all of the characters are there, from X-Men to Avengers, Spider-man to Fantastic Four, allowing you to create awesome match ups, though limited to two heroes, plus your personal SHIELD Agent character, at a time.
Hopefully some of those reading this review are old to remember that band Blink 182 and their hit song "What's My Age Again." which is the objective of this app, considered a game by some and a training session by others, these simple set of challenges are meant to keep your brain sharper for longer.
Anyone who has owned a Nintendo hand held system from GameBoy on are familiar enough with the concept. Jump through a few hoops and then be told what group of people you should be able to match wits with. Though this game appears to lack a large variety of methedology and falls very short in much of any explenation as to what your results mean. I ran through the test the first time and was told my age was just a smidge over 20. "Great." I think, "Is that good or bad?" I ran through the test a second time and it dropped a whole half of a year. So is 19.5 years old better or worse then 20? it seems that younger would be better, but surely there is a tipping point somewhere, who wants to be told you have the brain of a 4 year old?