Game review: Zombie Army Trilogy

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7 May, 2015 05:00 PM2 mins to read

A scene from the game Zombie Army Trilogy.

There is a hierarchy of acceptable deaths in the gaming world. The safest bets are robots, and families have enjoyed slaughtering billions of them with not the slightest moral code bent.

Next come zombies, which are incredibly popular as bullet sponges. It's okay to kill them because they come pre-killed. You're doing them a kindness, really, as their headstones clearly read "rest in peace" rather than "lurch forever in search of brains."

Nazis are first on the ladder as acceptable live human cannon fodder because they've got the all-time award as The Worst People Ever.

Being absolutely indefensible scumbuckets does that to a movement.

A scene from the game Zombie Army Trilogy.

Doing the math, then, it looks like Zombie Army Trilogy's three-chapter campaign against Hitler's zombie Nazi hordes is certified decent and a guaranteed hit. Really though, this upgraded version of a Sniper Elite spinoff does what it's meant to do in terms of letting you and your friends pop off dozens and dozens of rotting soldiers, but it doesn't do much else.

The campaign chapters become a one-note affair immediately and stay that way, and in a way that's okay - you get to kill Nazi zombies. Win. On that basis, get it if you think that's a good time. If you want a more varied experience, go online.

It's a cheap thrill, but not a keeper.