I studiously stay away from all Facebook games. As far I’m concerned Farmville and its clones can die in a fucking fire. But this one, made by the guy behind the two Last Stand flash games has me hooked, at least for a little while. It has some similarities with Farmville: it’s the zombie apocalypse and you need to build up your compound to survive it. This involves building vegetable patches and rainwater catches to harvest the food and water you need to survive. But it also has a full on tactical combat mode when you and your selected team of survivors venture out into the city to scavenge for supplies.
There’s a complete RPG in there: character stats (melee and ranged weapons, movement speed, scavenging, engineering etc.), experience points, slots for weapons and gear. There are quests to do (clear zombies out of a zone, visit the ruins of a street checkpoint to collect weapons, ransack a supermarket etc.) and resources to collect. Eventually your compound will turn from a hut in a parking lot to a high-security fortress with watchtowers, security barriers and floodlights. Or that’s the idea anyway. Many features are still not implemented yet (you can’t even man watchtowers yet and there is no crafting) and at heart, it’s still a Facebook game (pay real money to get building projects completed faster!) so I doubt it’ll interest me for long.
But if you do like Facebook games or are just a fan of zombie apocalypse games, you might want to give it a spin.
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