Burn Zombie Burn

Burn Zombie Burn – Review

Published By: Pinnacle, Developed By: Doublesix, Genre: Horror Shooter, Release Date: March 26, 2009, Rating: Mature, Systems: PC, Playstation 3.

Presentation – Burn Zombie Burn is downloadable arcade style top down zombie shooter that features a unique risk/reward style of gameplay. Burning zombies is the name of the game. What makes it interesting is when you do choose to burn zombies not only do they move faster but your multiplier score decreases. Not is all lost since you do get better item drops when you burn them. Burn Zombie Burn’s atmosphere is decent enough. It definitely gave me a zombie vibe from its music score and decent artstyle. No glitches, bugs or anything of that nature to report. Then again the game is a few years old and probably been patched to hell by now. For this particular article i played Burn Zombie Burn on my Playstation 3.

Story – Bruce is the star of Burn Zombie Burn. He likes to comb his hair and wear his cool flames shirt when he dishes out death to zombies. If i can be serious for a minute i couldn’t find a reason for Bruce to kill zombies. They didn’t eat his family. They didn’t kidnapped his GF. The story is basically non-existent. As i played and looked through the menus all i could find was Character Bios you can unlock. Otherwise no story in Burn Zombie Burn.

Visuals – The game does show clear signs of age. The textures are washed out looking. The color scheme looked pedantic. What Burn Zombie Burn graphically excels at even after a few years of age is its artstyle. Bruce along with the various hordes of zombies have a really nice look to them. The settings were varied. There are forest levels, cemetary levels, lab levels and more. Each setting looked average and only made Bruce and the zombies stand out more.

Sound Design – The music was catchy and changed along with gameplay and different levels. The sound effects of the guns as well zombies were crisp and didn’t sound distorted. The sound of the Trumpet attack made the zombies dance to disco music. The latter weapon reminded me of the Groovitron from Ratchet & Clank: Future Tools of Destruction.

Gameplay – Burn Zombie Burn at its essence is a top down zombie shooter featuring wild weapons and crazy weapon combos. Its also a wave game. Or should i say zombie wave game. As far as weapons go there are plenty. Some more outrageous than others. You have the default pistol and the ability to light zombies on fire. Weapon spawns includes a bat that you can literally knock zombies out of the screen with. Gatling gun, shotgun, SMG, Chainsaw (my favorite) and a sword. There are also wacky weapons like i alluded to above. You can use a Trumpet looking device to make zombies dance so you can kill them where they stand.

Zombies ranged from regular grunts to exploding zombies, giant brute zombies who blow flame farts and others. For the most part i would just lock-on and circle the map killing zombies. The more you play the better you will learn where all of the weapon spawns are. I typed this earliar but i want to repeat it here. The uniqueness of Burn Zombie Burn’s gameplay stems from using fire. If you choose to use it its a double edge sword of sorts. The bad is that your multiplier score will suffer from burned zombies but killing them will result in better item drops like TNT, Health and Speed-Out.

This game does get intense and chaotic. Its fun and can get addicting. Fun and addicting almost always go hand in hand. As you earn medals on levels through the story/arcade single player you can unlock more levels and multiplayer. The latter is a good system and ramps up the difficulty at a good pace so you won’t get overwhelmed by zombies. There is a Challenges section that pits you in an arena style battle. In the center is a bomb device. Enemies vary and waves get increasingly tene. Its a typical hone your skills gamemode.

Replayability – 6 story maps and 10 Challenges. Yea, that is about it. Not much content to keep me coming back. Its a fun game but fun needs a companion and that is content and replayability.

Final Verdict – Burn Zombie Burn is a good top down zombie shooter featuring a double-edge sword style of gameplay. Its also fun and addictive. The problem however is the lack of content and replayability. Thanks gameboyuk.

7/10