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There is a story mode, you can play in singleplayer or coop mode with up to 4 of your friends and to make it even more interesting: There will be a PVP mode coming soon.

You start to play Night of the Dead as a young woman whose name is Lucy. Equipped with only a knife you are about to enter a dangerous world full of different kinds of zombies. By exploring the map and findind journals you get to know more about the story behind Lucy.

But to get to know more of the past you have to stay alive. To do so it is not only necessary to kill every zombie that gets to close to your handsome body. You will also have to scavenge for loot, gather resources, prepare meals, grow your own vegetables, go hunting and last but not least — Build yourself a base to survive the nights.

This is a tower defense game. While the gameplay is very calm at daytime where you gather resources and build your base, the nights are getting worse and worse after you managed to fight offthe horde of the previous night. But remember nearly all of the traps are able to hurt yourself.

While some of them only do so when a zombie is nearby and activates them there are other traps will harm and kill you you no matter if there is some flesheating zed nearby. These traps will hurt you as soon as you get in touch with them, for example the barbed fence traps. You have to carefully place these traps as you might end up in a very unhealthy state by running or falling into them while you are running away from the horde.

Fire is very effective at crowd controlling the zombies but remember that fire is also very dangerous for wood based buildings. Yes, you imagined right. By using fire based weapons or traps you might end up setting your whole base on fire. Imagine the work of days just to be ruined in minutes because you placed your flame thrower turret at the wrong place or by accidentally setting your base on fire by whipping your flamethrower around carelessly. Night of the Dead gets unforgiving on higher difficulty levels.

However, there are plenty difficulty levels to choose from which differ in the amount of zombie health, the damage they deal and the sheer amount of zeds per wave. If you are new to this genre, the lowest difficulty might be appropriate for you to choose.

Experienced players that have played other zombie survival and tower defense games before might choose normal or even hard from the beginning. The zombies might get you sooner than you think. To me the difficulty is moderate and playing on hard is challenging enough for me. For more adrenaline there are. This is one of the most sophisticated aspects of Night of the Dead. Since you can place foundations, stairs, floors and walls up to your liking you might end up with a very sophisticated base if the horde lets you.

You can use a snapping grid for proper placement but you also allowed to change coordinates, height and direction by hand. To change from grid to free place mode, just hit the ALT key and you are ready to enter the creative world of tower defense base building done right! From building basic wooden structures and traps you later are capable of upgrading these to stone and even metal based ones.

Once you are able to use cement you can build very solid structures but the sheer amount of zombies in the later hordes and their increasing strenth will take even the strongest structures to their limits. In Night of the Dead you have to build very intelligently to survive after night The difficulty keeps increasing and you have to repair and reload a lot depending on your building skills. There are many different traps from spinning blades, to guillotines over a swinging pendulum to ranged weapons like ballistas, trebuchets and even a stand alone flamethrower turret.

There also are special traps like a bait trap which attracts zombies, landmines or an akle traps which slows down the zombies. My favorite is the Trap door! Oh lord, have I mentioned how I love this game? To make things even more appealing you can craft decorative items and furniture in Night of the Dead. Make your base your home by adding carpets, lamps and even plants to make it more comfy.

Not only do you have to secure an existing building or build your own fortress from scratch. You also have to craft different working benches like the material production table, an equipment table, a crafting table and so on.

By using the different production tables you are able to produce planks, lumber and trimmed logs from logs, process animal skins to leather, knot your own ropes from vines or even make metal ingots from ore.

The crafting tree in Night of the Dead is very well thought and you can craft nearly any item that is ingame from scratch by upgrading raw materials from stage to stage. This goes up to electronic devices and auto aiming turrets. With the cooking station build, you are then able to prepare simple meals at first.

Improve your cooking station and skills to create more delicious meals and even desserts like donuts. To research new skills you have to process research material by using the research desk. By dooing so you are open to spend your points on leveling your skill tree. As you have to to supply yourself with food one of the best options is to go hunting. While you can place animal traps as well to catch smaller animals like foxes and rabbits or even medium sized traps to trap some bigger animals there also are big animals roaming around the freeland.

To kill boars or bears its best to be equipped with an assault rifle. If you are more of a pieceful guy or girl, you can also build a birdhouse which attracts bird and lets them lay their eggs within your reach. Besides the ability to hunt, you can also grow your own vegetables. You can use one of the crafting benches to manufacture fertilizer, soil and even pesticides. To prepare complex meals you have to skill your cooking abilities and upgrade your cooking station.

This way you will be able to produce bread from Potatoes, bake baguette and prepare meat or veggie stews. You can also make a nice Steak platter and even pizza or pasta ingame.

There are a lot of vegetables and even cooking oil is involved to prepare some of the meals. Besides the fact that no real world baguette would consist of sweet potato, potatoes and pear the cooking system is well made.

You need to upgrade your skills in order to craft the more advanced items in Night of the Dead. These crafting based skills are represented by the Engineer skill tree or the Cooking skill tree. The obligatory mansion house and chemical labs are intact, replete with diseased animated corpses and rabid undead dogs. House Of The Dead is an 'on-rails' shoot 'em up, which means you go where the camera takes you and shoot anything that comes at you.

If you're unfamiliar with the style of play, preferring instead the freedom of something like Quake , then you'll probably hate the constricting nature. This game requires nothing but quick reactions; Quake at least requires instinct and cunning. However, there are certain points in levels where your actions determine which 'rail' you will take. For example, the first bridge you come to on level one sees a zombie carrying one of the scientists towards the edge with the intention of throwing him over the side.

If you manage to take out the zombie without killing the scientist, he is dropped to the floor and gives you one extra life, and you then proceed across the bridge and into the mansion. If you are too late, however, he is flung over the bridge. You then have to travel down a set of stairs only to see him disfigured on the brick floor, mumbling to himself. Like most arcade-to-home translations, House Of The Dead has the inherent problem of being a bit on the short side. Although the various routes do give some variety throughout the game, it's not one of those games that you'll either play for months on end or come back to time and time again.

If you've spent enough time and money on previous versions, you'll probably complete the game in a couple of hours. And if you were hoping to get in on some two-player, split-screen action, forget it.

The unlucky keyboard-playing participant will not be happy. Walking into the huge mansion house, guns ablaze and tearing undead minions apart has never looked so good. Blast an axe-wielding zombie in the arm and not only will he drop the axe, but his whole arm will also drop with it!

Although the 3D models look and move well, the 2D sprites can sometimes look a bit odd. You'll remember in Doom when you looked at a dead body and moved degrees around it, only to find it facing the same direction. Well that raises its ugly head in the form of trees and bushes in this game, giving the backdrops a 'cardboard'-like appearance.

The addition of a 'PC Mode' enables you to change characters you play as in the arcade game, and each has different attributes: for example, one character may give more damage per shot but have a smaller hit radius. One thing you have to keep in mind is not to tinker about with the 'auto-reload' option. This, in effect, relaxes the need for you to reload your weapon once you've fired off a particular weapon's payload, thus making the game much easier to complete.

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