Monday, September 29, 2008

Freeware Games: Survival Crisis Z

I'm a big fan of everything about zombies. Not so much a fanatic though. I don't fantasize about what I'll do with a combat shotgun surrounded by a cardboard box fortification I built myself. But they're still a pretty bad ass concept. They don't have morals, senses, perceptions, judgments, intentions, deadlines, or working organs. Just instinct. They're a force; an element, only meant for one thing. To fuck your shit up.
^FUCKING STUPID^

It's also happenstance that I'm a huge fan of freeware games. It's also happenstance that Skaware developed a freeware game about zombies called Survival Crisis Z.


Don't let screenshots fool you. The game's one of the best zombie-themed games ever.

You play as a guy who shoots undead things with guns. Or blows them up with things that blow up. Either way, you get set in this haunted randomized city with safe houses and not-safe houses scattered around. You can enter every building, in which you can scavenge for food, materials, money, guns and ammo or whatever. You'll come across some random hordes of zombies as you're exploring. Shoot them. You can talk to safe house owners to trade, get a random mission for money, or to compromise. By compromise I mean take the safe house over. When this happens however, it's just you against a horde of zombies that come in through every single hole in the wall of the building. If you can defend it, you get the safe house along with all the bonuses (a ready squad, you get money per zombie kill, etc.)

You can also make a bunch of shit to wreck with. Turrets and Molotov cocktails are a few examples.

The game's use of sound is crazy, which totally makes up for its graphics department. You have to play for yourself.

At midnight game-time, the city gets fucked up and you'll get teleported in and out of a silent hill-esque area. Shit is scary.

You're scary.

This game is scary - -

scary AWESOME

Only works with XP though.

http://skasoftware.com/files/scz.exe

Oh yeah there's also an arcade mode where you just keep shooting zombies with pick-ups and stuff. Just play the game already god damn.

I'M OUT

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