Out of the many games we previewed during E3 2010, this game is one of the games that stood out the most.

Zombie Escape ($0.99)

Flight Control paved the way for line drawing games. More than a year later, the genre has evolved. Zombie Escape is a perfect example of how one game can reinvent the whole genre.

Presentation

I’ve just seen the trailer for AMC’s The Walking Dead. Using that then as a point of view, think zombie apocalypse and your tasked to save the surviving humans. The game starts on a deserted airport with choppers landing providing an outlet for survival.

The game’s design is perfect and the animation with blood and guts just fancies the game some more.

Controls

The first part of the game is line drawing of course. Your goal is to draw a line from the survivors to their choppers. The second part of the game is activating the weapons you pick up by touching the bar at the bottom.

Gameplay

The game contains 28 days of survival and gameplay possibly a hat tip to the ultra popular zombie movie franchise: 28 Days/Weeks Later. Zombie Escape gives you the freedom to either stick to line drawing only OR pick up special weapons for use later.

Crates with parachutes will be dropped from the sky ala food drops from LOST. You can then guide one of your survivors to pick up the weapon. All the weapons you collect are available for use at your disposal.

At the end of every couple of levels or so, you get to upgrade your weapons OR unlock new ones. Currently, you’ll slay zombies on 3 levels. There’s a plethora of weapons you can use, tons of Crystal achievements unlocked and a whole lot of zombie guts spilled of course.

Suggestions

Please change the icon. What is that hideous looking button? The game’s design is legions of miles above that icon. Please fix it. Gameplay wise, the game is pristine.

Conclusion

Zombie Escape’s mission mode is extremely fun. It adjusts in difficulty and offer new gameplay quests every time to keep the game fresh. However, the developers didn’t think that was enough so if/when the mission mode is completed, survival mode gets unlocked.

For $0.99, I can’t think of any other game that has as much amount of content and fun packed onto one little game.