Showing posts with label Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare Game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare Game. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Red Dead...Something?

I've recently been playing Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. First off the bat: it's friggin' awesome! I do love a good zombie shoot, and there's no loss of it here. Hell, it's the first thing you do. There is that staple of the zombie genre: less ammo than usual, but thankfully Rockstar had the good sense to make it not much of a hindrance.

"There are no shopkeepers", as the game points out early on, which means you can't actually buy ammunition, so you have to rip it off of corpses or get it from ammo drops in the towns you free from zombies. You'll stock up quickly without much effort - so much for the Apocalypse - and proceed onto murder after gleeful murder of the local walking dead.

This is made even more simple by the Deadeye feature (I'm assuming this was in the original Red Dead Redemption, I haven't played it), which slows the world down to a crawl (think the opening titles of Zombieland), allowing the pefect headshot. This means that if you're carrying, say, 50 bullets...that's 50 dead zombies, right there. Go save the world.

Here's the fatal flaw to this game, one tiny thing that niggles me: the name. Seriously, they couldn't have been more imaginative? Undead Nightmare sound's like a good B-movie, and it IS a DLC rather than a sequal, but I would have appreciated a little more effort.

Here's my idea, a better title for a great game: Red Dead Reanimation! I like it, it fits nicely with the titles of the other games.

What do you think? If I'm wrong, tell me why.

Comment please, either way.

Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare are the property of Rockstar Games