As a simple high-score shooter, Age of Zombies is worth a purchase, but we did find the campaign mode to be a bit lacking. Age of Zombies is purely an action game, but we wish it didn’t have to feel so mindless.Īge of Zombies also lets you replay any level in survival mode and post your high scores on OpenFeint and Game Center. The clever settings, dialogue, and sound effects don’t really make up for the fact that you’ll continually run and gun in small, enclosed environments without much gameplay variation. There’s no machine gun jetpack, for example, and instead you’ll have to make do with the same old machine guns, shotguns, and grenades we’re used to from countless other games.Įxcept for the boss fights, we found Age of Zombies’ campaign mode to be fairly dull. These power-ups are not nearly as clever as the ones Barry used in Monster Dash. It’s frightening to see a horde of zombies hone in on you, but the campaign mode can be pretty easy if you keep your distance and head straight for the game’s multiple power-ups. Instead of dying with one touch like in many shooters, Barry can withstand a few seconds of zombie clawing before he dies. Barry’s banter is pretty funny, and he’ll fire snappy one-liners at a machine gun-rate.Īnother thing we liked about Age of Zombies is the sheer number of onscreen enemies you’ll have to mow down. It’s a fun detail, and it complements Barry’s amusing dialogue. In each stage, a few new zombies are introduced, along with appropriate background music and sound effects.įor example, Barry grunts in a caveman voice when he picks up a power-up in prehistoric times, and he uses a wiseguy accent in the 1930s gangster level. He’s surprisingly foul-mouthed, too, which may upset parents who assume that Halfbrick’s games are all as family-friendly as Fruit Ninja.īarry travels to five different time periods (prehistoric times, a 1930s gangland, ancient Egypt, feudal Japan, and the future) to blast away the zombie menace using twin-stick controls.
Barry Steakfries hardly says a word in Monster Dash, but in Age of Zombies he won’t shut up.
Ok, but what about us?Īge of Zombies is the latest game from Halfbrick, the studio behind the best-selling Fruit Ninja games and Canabalt-style high score runner Monster Dash.
As impressive as this boss encounter could be, it ends up feeling small and predictable, and when the T-Rex is dead, Barry quips that he’s better off having known him. When Barry Steakfries is sent back in time to battle zombies, he encounters a zombie Tyrannosaurus Rex in prehistoric times.
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