So, I picked up a copy of this game for the XBOX 360 yesterday. I’d heard a bit about it and most of my friends play it, so I figured I should give it a go.
I played a little bit of the campaign mode so far, but that’s not what I want to tell you about. It’s the menu option that was calling out to me when I first popped the game in:
NAZI ZOMBIES
I love it. You’re basically trapped in a building with a few boarded up windows at the base level and wave after wave of zombies come after you. Unlike a proper zombie these can be defeated with multiple body shots, which is nice, because getting a head shot on a moving zombie with a bobbling head is harder than I’d previously imagined.
You start off with a 1911 and as you collect points for killing Nazi Zombies you can upgrade your weaponry by “purchasing” them from random chalk drawings on the wall. After each “wave” you have a little time to fix up the barricades on the windows but it doesn’t really clue you in to how much time you have so you’re constantly looking over your shoulder hoping nothing is there.
And when they are there it creeps me right the fuck out. Even creepier was sometime around wave 4 or 5 of the game when I had about 6 coming at me, armed with a 12 gauge coach gun, and I lobbed a grenade at them. The concussion shocked and disoriented me. When I came to I could see that they had all been hit and felt safe. Then I realized the grenade only took out their legs and the torsos were still crawling toward me with more coming in the windows.
“I’m fucked.” was the first thing I thought. This was immediately replaced with, “I need that fucking BAR RIGHT NOW!”
I popped a few Nazi Zombie creepy-crawlies with the shotgun, got the BAR, and laid waste to many more zombies but was eaten in the end after wave 6.
Yeah, I think I’ll be playing that game a lot in the next few days.
Is the Nazi Zombie feature single player, or is there a co-op option? I rather enjoy Horde mode in Gears of War, my friends and I usually try and make a run at beating it on game nights. The teamwork aspect is an interesting challenge, because it is virtually impossible to beat alone or shorthanded. You have to work together holding a position on the map, or get wiped out. And getting random people on x-box live to work together is an adventure in and of itself.