I thought this was going to be an easy game.. Damn am I struggling, great graphics and it will probably be a great game when I get the hang of it, there seems to be several ways to play it.. I think I should have sat in a cupboard instead of trying to take on the thousands of Zombies.. however it is great when you get behind the wheels of car.

Anybody else playing this one?

I've only got as far as playing the downloadable demo, which I did really enjoy. (Made a thread about it here).

I can't wait to get the full version though, I just need to wait for it to come down in price a bit before I can afford it.

I agree with you when you said "they created a similar atmosphere to that of the original Dawn of the Dead"

The problem I have found is you can only save you progress in public WC cubicles or a couch where you start the game near the roof.. and that roof is a long way away in fact it is like real life.. public toilets are also few and far between.

I was in a shop and had the option of changing my clothes and was looking at the racks, I heard something (as you do through the whole game).. I had my back to the window of the shop.. nothing was there, a few minutes later I heard grunts and scratching again.. low and behold there were hundreds of the damn things at the window.

I ran towards the shop counter to think about which direction I would move to next.. the damn things can climb over the counter, all I had to hit them with was the shop till.. and that smashed to bits after killing about 20/30 of them.

Needless to say they got me, I had to start again at my last save point an hour previous... because I had not found and saved at a public toilet.

I've had the game for a while and beaten the regular game and overtime mode and i think it's one of the best games ever

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I really like how you have to collect the bombs to stop the mall from blowing up. I also liked how the guy in the helicopter is killed by that zombie. I think that the hardest part was beating the leader of the special forces, because of the tank he's driving.


all in all it's a great game.

Heh, something similar happened to me.

I've heard a few people complaining about the save system now, hopefully that won't effect the genera gameplay too much.

What are the missions like? Do they add an in-depth story to the game?

the missions are the story line of the game if you fail a mission you can't finnish the story of the game. The missions are mainly getting things and helping people.

I rented it a while back and found that it was hard untill you actually level up a bit.
The games awesome and their are so many weapons you can use against the zombies, some are hidden very well. I personely loved useing the samuri sword, cuts through groups like butter!
But doesn't last long. (sword)

it does if you get the 'criminal biography' book

No way!!! Serious?
Anyway I was planning to buy the game and get through it all!

it lasts about 3 times as long

Finally got this game. I'm only on day 2 so far, I think I would have got further already but I kept dying and having to start from the beginning all over again a good few times, until I got used to the save system and figured out how to load properly.

Apart from that, it's completely awesome. I've been struggling trying to kill those 3 guys in the jeep, though. I killed them once and then they just respawned again. Now I've got to try and escort some survivors and kill those guys again. It's definetely a lot harder than I expected it to be.

This is going to be one of my first 360 games when i get a 360. I've heard nothign but good things, and the videos on ign make it looks 5 times as good

Dying to play this but have to wait for my roommate to buy a 360 first

This game is the only reason i would ever buy an Xbox360.
I hope it cmes out for PC.

How did you manage to kill those guys in the jeep?

I eventually managed to get to the gun shop... only to be killed by some guy in their.. he shop me. I stocked up with swords in the cutlery shop next door to the supermarket, went into the supermarket, which is crammed from floor to ceiling with Zombies, I thrashed my way through one of the isles killing all on the aisle and then ate food from the shelves to get my life by up to max.

There is a nice little corridor that takes you more or less to the gun shop, this enables you to avoid the Zombies in the shopping Mall.

First make sure you have some handguns, if you don't you can quickly get some by killing the zombie cops inside the doors between the Leisure Park and Paradise Plaza, and stock up on wine from the food court.

Then go out in to the Leisure Park and wait for them to come and chase you, run around any big tree you can find until they crash in to it, then you can start taking headshots at the gunner while hiding behind the tree for cover when you need to. Once you've killed the guy with the gun it's pretty easy.

It's kinda pointless seeing as they just revive again the next time you enter the park, but you can get in their jeep and really start killing zombies.

I haven't had time to explore the mall yet, I keep getting sidetracked by all of these scoop missions.

Excellent and thanks... I have tried shooting the guys in the Jeep, the trouble is the Zombies always catch up to me while I am focusing on the jeep.

I know what you mean about it being pointless.. I got a car and went into the underground service type tunnel, mowing down the Zombies was the best.... but at the end of the tunnel I got out to investigate a door leading to another room and when I went back through the door to return to my car... IT HAD GONE? and Zombies everywhere, needless to say... I died.

I went to my friends house last night and finally got to play this game. I think it's pretty excellent. The graphics are nice, the zombies look awesome, and the atmosphere is great. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, though.

it won't

Anyone else annoyed with the size of the writing when communicating lol

The game looks great. I don't have a 360 yet, though.

THAT'S ALOT OF ZOMBIES!

I think the writing is annoying and most of all distracting... red writing telling me some one has just been killed in the shoe shop... I don't care but it is blocking my vision and the Zombies are all around me.

I am also sick of the damn mobile going off all the time.

lol yes the radio

"Don't hang up on me it's rude" well I'm sorry I had 10 zombies hanging off my neck my priorities were elsewhere

It's actually the size of the writing when you get a call from the radio that Subby was referring to...it's TINY ! is there any way that we haven't found to make it bigger? I'm sick of squinting to see what the next scoop is.

Ohh, I have given up on that writing... far too small to read especially when your running around the malls at night... I have all on concentrating on whgere the Zombies are at night as it can be quite dark.

I suppose the tiny writing is for HD tvs. I have a 40' tv so i'm squinting all the time. The game is great though, i'm glad I bought it. The only problem is, my first time through, I had gotten pretty far; (Killed the guy in the gun shop, covered almost all of the scoops, got the guys in the courtyard ect...) and the game for SOME reason, remembered the time I had left to get to the helipad, but everything I accomplished got erased. I went to load the game and it still said I had 20 hours left but everything in the game I did (except for scoops) returned back. Like the guy in the gun shop; alive and well and still wants to kill me.....

I have a 40" HD TV and the writing is still small... Theguy in the gun shop killed me both times I managed to make it there.. I only had 1 bar of life by the time I got there though both times.

Has anyone come across the psycho clown yet?

I have, his death is very disturbing, but you get the mini-chainsaws which are the one of the most powerful weapons you can get in the game. you also get to rescue a guy.

I don't think the Transciever text is too small, athough it's quite blurry. Fine for anyone who has an HDTV.

I've just spent a while going Rambo through the mall. Picking up survivor after survivor and escorting them through hordes of zombies, so much fun. I love getting to be a hero.

I haven't really come across any psychopaths yet, apart from Carletto (sp?) and the convicts. I'm taking things slowly, trying to make sure I get all of the scoops done.

Anyone completed the 72-hour mode yet?

I've completed 72-hour mode and overtime mode.

Anyone else find that the big drill..i think called the excavator.... It has to be the most fun weapon in the game.

Big Drill... NO, where can I get that... not that is matters now I am stuck in a public Toilet at the moment.

Its in the north plaza ( I think), the one where you walk in and there is a fountatin that doesnt work right in front of you. Basically you follow the hall around, and make sure you get up on top of the boardwalk/ workman boards.. and its up on one of those. I killed about 350 of them in like 2 minutes lol

I'm stuck aswell. I'm escorting four survivors, including one who's disabled. I'm in the food court, and I've got to make my way to the Entrance plaza in around around under 3 minutes before the scoop time runs out. If only they'd follow me instead of running backwards to fight more zombies...

I could leave them all behind, but where's the honour in that?

You mean your not like me and attack and kill as many survivors as possible?

Well thats not true, they just get in the way...

I have to agree the excavator is coolest weapon in the game.

Thanks Subby, I just came across the mini excavator by accident on the scaffold has you described, that is one mean piece of kit, love the way it spins the dead Zombie in the air and uses him as a battering ram.

I can't seem to kill the guy Cletus in the gun shop, any tips would be appreciated, when I get even near to him he picks me up and throws me across the shop... Is that food behind his counter?

Try getting quickstep drinks and get the mini-chainsaws.

Where are the quick step drinks and you don't mean the mini chainsaw from the Psycho Clown do you? Would that mini excavator work?

you can't get quick step drinks you have to make them, and yes i do mean the chainsaws from the clown, the excavator won't work.

to make a quick step mix anything with a coffee creamer.

Looks like I have to start the game again.

I saved the game around 10min before completing a casefile, and now everytime I complete this case it says 'Next case will be at 11am', but it's already 2pm. So whenever I load and complete this case, afterwards it immediately says 'Scoop chance lost' and every other case expires.

Really annoying...

what levels are you guys at?
I'm a 40

Man I want to play this game. Is it going to come out for any other system? PS3..Wii..PC??

Nope

I'm at 38 right now, and I just completed 72-hour mode yesterday.

Now i'm at a 41 almost 42


He's a zombie now and if you get his photo you get an award.

My buddies are always out looking for this game and a 360 to rent out. i dont think they've had much luck. but i've heard from one of them that the game is orgasmic.

Did anyone go into the store room and swat that fly? when the fly died the Zombies in the room all fell to the floor and their heads exploded?

It then said something about killing the queen Zombie in each mall will kill the other Zombies also? or did I misundestand it?

As you get further in to the game you find out that the zombies became zombified by parasitic 'Queen' wasps.

Every now and then you'll come across a zombie who's standing still and waving their hands around, it looks like they're trying to slap themselves around the face. If you kill them, they'll drop a Queen which you can pick up and use, basically it just kills all zombies within around a 10ft radius.

They're quite easy to get, really useful aswell.

You'll need 10 queens to finish overtime mode.

i haven't played this game in awhile, so i picked it up last night, man watching zombies fall down stairs still isn't old, they got the sound just right.