Title: Ninja Gaiden Dragon SwordPlatform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Adventure
Publisher: Ignition Entertainment
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Rating: 8.0
If you’re looking for a game with a whole lot of heart and fun than look no further than Teenage Zombies: Invasion of The Alien Brian Thingys, from Ignition Entertainment.
I know what you’re thinking. It’s awkward enough being a teenager, but being a teenager AND a zombie must really be hard. It’s a good thing that the 3 zombies you’ll be playing as come with their fair share of special tricks and advantages.
You start the game playing as Lori “Lefty” Lopez who has some serious reach and can climb tall places in a single bound. Next up is Zack “Half-Pipe” Boyd who is totally a skater dude and busts up his enemies as if he was Tony Hawk himself. Lastly, there’s Finnigan “Fins” Magee who can pounce on enemies with a three-pronged attack. One cool feature of the game is that you can swap out each zombie in real time and most of the games obstacles require you to do so. This is done by simply tapping the player in their grave in the bottom screen of your DS.
And as the title suggests, you’ll be doing battle against alien brain-thingys. For the most part, several attacks with your character will bring a brain-thingy to its end. But TZ is just as much about choosing the right zombie for the task as it is about button-mashing.
The game itself isn’t difficult nor does it intend to be (c’mon, the title has the word “thingy” in it). TZ is a game that you can just pick up and just play. There are no insurmountable obstacles that will prevent you from progressing and make you lose interest. Even the average gamer will be able to fend off the game’s mega-enemy, Big Brain. That being said, the game is somewhat short and you’ll find yourself beating it and cueing it up for another run-through.
Overall, I enjoyed this title. TZ is a playful adventure that offers comic-book style storytelling, with a totally different world for gamers to enter.
Buzzfocus.com rates Teenage Zombies a 8/10.
