Android Game Review: Zombie Mart
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Some of you might remember my last zombie game review, Zombie City. This game only received 14 out of 30 points due to its many bugs, that destroyed the atmosphere and fun when playing this game. Today, I’m going to check out if zombies in a mart cause less trouble, but more action than zombies in a city.
No matter if you’re into undeads or not: Stay tuned and read the cruicial review of the big zombie game battle “Zombie Mart” versus “Zombie City”, OpenEmotion versus GameTouch. 3.. 2.. 1.. fight!
Graphics: 1:1 Both games… score…
To be honest – Neither Zombie Mart nor Zombie City look good and this battle is more the question of who’s the one-eyed king in the kingdom of the blind. The result *drum roll* : Both of them are blind! *tadaa* The graphics are as spartan as in Zombie City and the repeating backgrounds are as uncreative and annoying too, although there’s no graphic bug in Zombie Mart! No bugs, no roaches, just solid graphics without any reason to call the exterminator or to detonate a nuclear bomb! Congratulations!
Okay… some letters of the help text are cut off and the graphic style is wannabe-retro and wannabe-doodle (when it’s neither), but – hey – The ‘O’ of the title is a ripped off zombie head! 5 -ehm- 2 points for that!
Graphics: 2/5
Sounds: 1:2! Zombie City gains the lead!
To scream or not to scream – that is the question! Welcome to the epic battle between the terrifying screams of Zombie Citys undead horde and the funky-fresh sounds of its opponent – Zombie Mart! And the winner is … Zombie City! I appreciate the try of OpenEmotion to create an alternate sound scape, but GameTouchs sound effects are far more athmospheric and coherent.
Sounds: 3/5
Controls: 2:3! Tie time!
If the graphic battle was about the one-eyeds and blinds, the battle of the better controls is the fight among the blinds and deaf-mute blinds. Seriously, the controls suck. OpenEmotion found a way to make only three touchscreen options appear as unconveniently as possible. First of all – you can only play this game in portrait mode. No landscape mode, okay, I hate such games, but you can excuse it with the gameplay and the possibility to play the game with only one hand. If only that were so! If you’re not blessed with a superhero thumb, you seriously need two fingers alone to move to the left and to the right. In addition to that, you need – in best case – a third hand to shoot at the zombie hord running towards you, if you’re not practiced in playing the piano or operating with surgical precision.
Controls: 1/5
Scope: 3:4! Tie again!
It didn’t occur either GameTouch or OpenEmotion Studios that the user maybe wants a little bit – just a little, tiny, itsy-bitsy-teensy-weensy bit of variety. Both developers generously donate a few power ups and different zombie types. Zombie City’s power ups are cooler (jetpack rules the world), but Zombie Mart’s zombies are cooler (because they are fat, disgusting and puking!). However, in both games you’re running in an infinite loop of uninspired repetitions.
Scope: 2/5
Atmosphere: 3:5! Goaaaaal for Zombie City!
Zombie City scores with its horror sound scape and its postapocalyptic scenario. Zombie Mart in contrast got almost nothing to score in this category. There are a few first signs of a uniqe style, but you can barely see with your own eye. However, the planetary constellations are lighting up my mood, so I scrape it up to a point of mercy.
Atmosphere: 1/5
Fun Factor: 3:6! The decision!
I’m sorry, but Zombie Mart simply is no fun. The gameplay is highly repetitive and highly intransparent. After three of us played the game, nobody would be able to tell you what made us die time and time again, or what we need to do with the zombies (run them over? Avoid them? What??). And nobody of us really cared, because it’s pretty lame to walk through an unattractive looped background and getting enraged because of the incredible unhandy controls.
Fun Factor: 1/5
Resume:
The green lantern goes to the superhero fans out there, and the red lantern goes to games, that are the worst, that we’ve tested so far. Now – the red lantern is passed on to OpenEmotion Studios with its game “Zombie Mart”, it is even worse than the previous red lantern game “Zombie City” by GameTouch.
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Review and Video review by Frederik Schrader.