Bloody Zombies Switch Review

Bloody Zombies is a modern take of the old school genre that sees four dysfunctional cockneys as London's saving grace to control the zombie pandemic that has. Sep 22, 2017  Bloody Zombies arrives to remind us that beat em ups will never go out of fashion, with a frenetic rhythm and an old-school gameplay, it enters the in the Olympus of the best punching games. All this publication's reviews.

Earlier this week, nDream announced that it will release its co-op zombie brawler, Bloody Zombies, to the Nintendo Switch on December 23 for $14.99. Originally released on VR, the game will support full controller support.

Bloody Zombies on Switch features extensive multiplayer support, with online and local co-op brawling for one to four players. Set in a London wasteland, bloody zombies have taken over the city and four survivors must fight together to beat back the rotting hordes across the game’s full campaign. Bloody Zombies’ highly refined freeform combat is both an evolution and refinement on genre greats, featuring an expansive, unlockable moveset that can freely be chained into brutal, discoverable combos. With extensive support for the Nintendo Switch console, Bloody Zombies features full controller and play mode support, allowing you to go from TV to handheld to table top and play with your preferred controller input.

“We’re delighted that Bloody Zombies is joining the host of wholesome family-friendly titles, like Skyrim, Doom and LA Noire, hitting the Switch this holiday season.” said David Corless, VP of Publishing, nDreams. “What could make Christmas more festive than helping your Granny take down a seven-foot zombie with a samurai sword, all whilst playing together on your new Switch console?”

“We’ve gone to town to create a game that is a truly modern evolution of the brawlers that we love,” said Antony White, Co-Founder and Director at Paw Print Games. “With extensive multiplayer options, an expansive campaign, and a combat system inspired by some of our favorite titles, we’re sure it will be enjoyed by genre fans and anyone else who cannot resist punching a zombie in the face!”

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Check out the trailer above, read Kay’s hands-on experience with the VR version of Bloody Zombies, and stay tuned for more news here on Gaming Trend.

London’s calling… for help, because it’s been infested by zombies again

We’ve never really had a golden age of the beat-em-up since the days of the SNES. Nintendo’s second home console had tons of them – Battletoads, Final Fight and Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers were amongst the most memorable. Can Bloody Zombies offer anything to change the fact that we really don’t get these top-level games in the genre anymore?

In short, not really. What we have here is really a pretty standard beat-em up. On each level you’re walking or running from left to right, with a series of barriers preventing your progression until you’ve cleared out all the enemies from the section that you’re in. Your standard enemies are varied – all are zombies, of course, but some will throw projectiles at you, others will explode, others will have spikes protruding out of their bodies which can spear you at any moment, and a lady who cracks a whip. All can cause you some trouble if you’re not nifty enough with the controls, but they aren’t too hard to master.

Hitting the Y button will have you throw your standard punch, while the Y button will deliver a stiff uppercut. A mixture of the two will help you perform combos, all of which contribute to your overall score. There’s also a special move which you can do which involves clubbing opponents with objects that you find on the floor, but for some reason the controls for doing this are unnecessarily complicated. You’ll need to hit the directional buttons forward and then quickly back before hitting the attack button in order to pull it off. It often doesn’t work when you want and need it to, and it just needn’t be this way, especially when you have spare buttons on the Switch controllers to make use of.

Fortunately, for all the time that you send walking backwards and forwards like a loony trying to make the move work, you can evade oncoming enemy attacks by making use of the ZL button to roll. It doesn’t work on everything, though – you’ll still collide with objects in the environment which can take away your health. There’s also B as the jump button – but it’s not of much use.

The visual presentation is very pleasing – the visuals are deep and yet crisp, and in terms of the impressiveness of the visuals, Bloody Zombies has not much you can find fault with, despite the cartoon cel-shaded style slightly unfitting of the zombie apocalypse. But what is an issue with it is depth perception. As is the case with any side-scrolling beat-em-ups which include up and down directions, it’s often tough to guess exactly where you need to be standing to make contact with the enemy, and I found myself delivering far too many air shots for my liking.

Playing levels through again, you’ll be kept playing in order to find the secret rooms along the way, but there’s not a lot of rewards for this apart from items and personal satisfaction. Grabbing a friend for co-op action is fun, it must be said, but it doesn’t have that same magic feeling to the SNES games I mentioned above. Buy it if you’re a huge fan of the genre, sure, but don’t expect to be remembering this one in another twenty years’ time.

Summary

Despite some lovely visuals, there’s not a lot of depth here to make Bloody Zombies memorable. Perhaps it’s down to the limits of the genre in this day and age, but it’s not a game you’re going to be remembering long into the future.