Review: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!1 for Xbox Live Indie Games

Creator: Jamezila
Genre: Top Down Shooter
Players: 1-4
Price: 80 Points
Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English

Developer Summary:
This video game product represents a culmination of years of intensive psychological research, bleeding edge engineering, and artistic collaboration by over two dozen internationally recognized art houses, using such technologies as the HYPERMAGIC 3.0 engine to power never-before-seen eye candy with the MEGACORE X parallelization processor for smooth-as-glass presentation.

What We Think:
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, more commonly referred to as I Made a Game With Zombies, is a relatively recent addition to the growing XBLA Indie Game lineup. Featuring a twin stick shooter setup, the action will be immediately familiar to anyone who has played the XBLA game Geometry Wars.  In Zomb1es you play the part of, well, a tiny character running around a landscape riddled with zombies.  There are numerous weapon power ups at your disposal, including such zombie bashing classics as the flamethrower, the shotgun, and the machine gun, while adding new favorites like a missile launcher and a weird green tri-attack-star-shooting-thinger.  You’ll also enjoy the occasional extra life, speed boost, and temporary shield.  As you shoot more zombies, the game begins warping to include netherworld like backdrops and puddles of green slime, among other odd creatures.

In all of the simplistic glory that unfortunately too often comes with an Indie Game, I would hesitate to call title truly original or even mildly thought provoking (unless of course you aren’t fluent in l33tsp3Ak and are caught in the headlights by the game’s actual title). That aside, Zombies still has a lot of good things going for it. The graphics are both polished and smooth, the controls are very responsive and the addictive soundtrack is comprised of one long song hammering on about making a game with, well, zombies in it.   At 80 Microsoft points, the zombie killing is frantic, the pace is unyielding, and most importantly, the game costs 80 points.

Next time you’re thinking about getting a candy bar, a can of soda, or 1/3rd a gallon of gas, save yourself the trip and purchase this game instead.

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Get I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!1 at the XBOX Live Marketplace

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