If your current protagonist succumbs to the shambling undead menace, he or she becomes a zombie, and another survivor takes their place. There are no checkpoints, no restarts and few really safe hiding places. Here’s the twist: In ZombiU, death means death. You’ll explore the hidden underbelly of London, from secret bunkers beneath Buckingham Palace to old tunnels underneath the Tower of London, and there’s an interesting plot involving secret societies and Elizabethan man of mystery, John Dee.

Guided by the mysterious voice of ‘the Prepper’ you take shelter in an underground safe house in return for going on missions that might help the Prepper fight the outbreak.

You play one of a chain of survivors, fighting for a living on the streets of a fictionalised London in the grip of a Zombie plague. In other words, it’s not a game that rewards heroism or feats of derring do. This isn’t the Zombie game as all-action blockbuster, but the Zombie game as a gritty and desperate struggle for survival. Just as you could see Dark Souls as a counterpart to The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, with a darker, more brutal atmosphere and an unforgiving difficulty level, so you could see ZombiU as a counterpart to the Resident Evil series. In fact, it’s quite a different experience a blend of the original Resident Evil, Dark Souls and modern Zombie fiction like 28 Days Later or The Walking Dead. When you hear the words Zombie, Horror and first-person in a sentence, you might be led to believe that ZombiU is a shooter in the vein of F.E.A.R. This is a game so hardcore that it’s going to be like marmite even amongst more serious game fans. While Mario has the long-term Nintendo fan covered, and Nintendo Land can woo both them and the Wii’s mainstream crowd, ZombiU demonstrates that the new console isn’t just for cute stuff – it can also handle big, innovative, hardcore-friendly adult games. ZombiU has risen from almost nowhere to become the third most important title in the Wii U launch line-up.

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