We’re walking right into “Hell yeah” territory here. Originally designed as a DLC add-on to Rebellion Development’s Sniper Elite V2 PC game, Zombie Army became a snipe-heavy entry into the Nazi Zombie shooter genre.
It turns out that Sniper Elite’s mechanics blend so well with undead members of the Aryan Race, fans demanded a second and now third part to the series, the latter of which has been released for consoles as a bundle of all three games.
Zombie Army Trilogy’s graphics and gameplay depth don’t match up to titles like Call of Duty or Dying Light, but the game’s charms lie in the frantic and gruesome gameplay, which unravels like a “B” movie: heads explode, limbs go flying, and slow-motion x-ray replays reward any kills that the game deems worthy.
As a member of the Allies racing through Germany to undo the spell that raised Hitler’s undead army, you have to wade through countless waves of zombies, which would get old if it wasn’t for the variety of corpses that you have to de-animate. In addition to the usual lurching type, ZAT’s Germany has shrieking (and sprinting) suicide bombers with dynamite strapped to their chests, snipers that can leap from rooftop to rooftop, giant machine gunners that take a dozen headshots to bring down, even a few chainsaw-wielding behemoths for good measure. The suicide bombers can be pretty useful, actually – I shot one at the bottom of a flight of stairs, then kicked a lurcher on top of it. The result was…satisfying.
“’Sploded!” – Billy
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