As you can imagine, this fills you with a sense of progression and getting something for nothing.
#Zombies ate my friends final episode 8 series#
It's just a series of opportunities to spend money.Īt first, you're regularly rewarded with Cash and XP, with the occasional Energy boost thrown in alongside the rare Gold Skull. All of this just increases the likelihood that you'll be spending money on in-app purchases.Īnd that's Zombies Ate My Friends in a nutshell. It also causes your weapon to wear and supplies of ammunition to dwindle. Still, it shouldn't really come as a surprise that Glu Mobile wants the focus to be on zombie-slaying - even if it does try to put this in the wider context of helping people.Įngaging in combat with the undead expends various units of energy depending on the type of attack you pick. While there's clearly an air of survival in the narrative and environments, the only pressure to survive that you'll find in the gameplay is the will to carry on. This is also true of how you progress through the story as all you ever seem to do is run back and forth through waves of zombies doing mundane and menial tasks. Even bigger fights, like boss encounters, require the same tap, tap, tap mechanic, and it becomes mundane rather quickly. To do this, you'll be tapping on navigation arrows to traverse screens, tapping on zombies to initiate battles, tapping on menus to fight, and, ultimately, just tapping an awful lot. This means venturing across town, defeating zombies on the way, and grabbing supplies from garbage cans too. Your first task is to rescue a fellow survivor and grab some supplies for your helicopter-enabled escape. Having created a customisable character, which can be further kitted out through the use of cosmetic in-app purchases, you're thrust into a strangely cartoony world of zombie survival.
Glu Mobile has attempted to give Zombies Ate My Friends its own unique selling point, but the results are mixed at best. Those that do succeed tend to have a selling point - perhaps an emphasis on story or a tower defence structure. While some zombie games manage to shuffle into the mainstream and stay there, the majority just fall by the wayside like so much decomposing matter. It seems as though these poster children of '80s entertainment have arisen from the grave once again to try and overrun the planet. Zombie games are dime a dozen on nearly every platform.
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