Burn Zombie Burn! Preview
- March 25, 2009 00:00 AM PST
The dead will burn in the the newest addition to PSN's already beefy 2009 lineup, Burn Zombie Burn!
With a number of blockbuster horror games like Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, and House of the Dead: Overkill, rearing their decomposing heads these days, there's certainly no shortage of new zombie games to play. But Double Six's new downloadable action game hitting the PlayStation Network March 26th, offers a different kind of experience than most games featuring the same subject matter, one that combines non-stop arcade shooting with, you guessed it, zombies. It actually has more in common with big PSN games like Super Star Dust HD than games in the survival-horror genre.
Zombie Inferno
Burn Zombie Burn is a carnage-loaded PSN game that, like its name suggests, doesn't take itself too seriously like the bulk of undead-themed games out there--I'm talking about your Resident Evils and Left 4 Deads--but its cheesy presentation is actually refreshing. Not everything horror has to be necessarily be horrifying, right? This is especially true when it comes to games.
From the minute you start playing, the game's tongue-in-cheek tone is present and it never lets up. For fans of corny scary movies, BZB also features several references to popular comedy-horror films like Shaun of the Dead (one of your weapons in the game is a cricket bat) and Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (another weapon is a zombie-shredding lawnmower). Burn Zombie Burn even takes a jab at George A. Romero's disappointing zombie flick Diary of the Dead, by having the faux movie "Diarrhea of the Dead" listed on the marquee of a movie theater in one of the levels.
The zombies themselves are also malformed and cartoonish in design, coming in multiple disgusting flavors like resurrected football players, rotting ballerinas, monstrously huge "super zombies," and even Trekkie zombies. Your undead foes attack you in massive packs, where you're forced to act quick, spraying bullets in every direction to avoid becoming zombie food. The zombies you encounter only get more and more brutal, and the game's two-player co-op support really comes in handy in this case.
