ZXombies and ZXombies - Dead Flesh (ZX Spectrum)

 

ZXombies (ZX Spectrum) :

1983 - The year the dead started rising from their graves....Poor Magenta has had her entire family wiped out by a zombie horde, but through fighting these evil brain munchers she has become a bad-ass zombie slayer on a mission to rid the world of the undead and look damn good in the process!

That's the premise of this simple little game by Xenopunk, where you move your little character around the screen attacking zombies as the pop up from the gravestones littered around. It's a slow moving affair, and seems to have been programmed in basic...and there seems to be a bit of luck to getting your hits on the zombies...but somehow the game manages to be quite addictive as you try to better your score each time you play.

Not really a gamethat does anything spectacular then, but one that should still bring you some brief enjoyment if you do decide to load it up...you can find it by clicking here!

 

ZXombies - Dead Flesh (ZX Spectrum) :

I'm not sure if this is a sequel, a spiritual successor or just a game that shares a similar name to the previous ZXombies, but this game by James Broad certainly has a lot more meat on it's bones! This time you play as an army Major who has lost his squad to the zombie menace, but who finds new purpose as he hears the cries of help from stranded survivors. Armed and ready, you search for these poor individuals and try to escort them to safety while blasting your way through the waves of the undead.

You have a few weapons you can flick through to help out, and you'll find ammo and health and other pickups scattered around as you flick from screen to screen. Once you find a camp of survivors you hold down an action button to get them to follow you, and then you lead them past the monsters to try and get to a safe haven. This gets harder as you go, and occasionally, bigger and nastier zombies appear, like the multi-limbed monstrosity you can see in the screenshot above..

As well as looking out for the flesh eaters, you also have to be careful not to be standing to close to the explosive barrells that litter the screen too, although they are handy for clearing a lot of enemies at once. Also hindering your walk to safety are locked gates, and to open these you'll need to keep the action button pressed for a few seconds until the gates are unlocked, whilst also having to protect the suvivor tagging along beside you.

It all makes for a pretty fun and addictive game, with a nice tune to bop along to as you go! I did find it  a bit trickier once I had rescued a few of the survivors and the bigger zombies started appearing, and sometimes had an issue with the gates, but thats probably more due to me playing on a laptop and pressing the wrong keys than anything to do with the game! It's definitely a great little spectrum game, way more interesting than the first ZXombies and well worth a download and play! You can find it by clicking here...