Age of Zombies is your standard top-down, 2D horde shooter. You play as Barry Steakfries, the ultimate homage to Hollywood’s action heroes such as Stallone and Arnie. The game’s main adventure sees Barry travel through time to fight the zombie horde and its psychotic creator. At first glance the game seems like an appropriately named generic zombie shooter, right? Yawn, move along?
This would be true if not for the fact that the game is very conscious of itself- it knows that its subject matter has been done to death, and it knows that people will only ever play it to have dumb fun. The game’s creators, Halfbrick studios, managed to work a great script into a purposefully shallow story. From the mildly racist stereotypes of the Japanese to the Resident Evil in-jokes, the game will have you chuckling throughout. Even better is that the game realises that no one cares about the story in a game like this, so wastes as little time as possible before letting you turn zombies into strawberry conserve. The cute SNES era-esque sprites and crimson blood combine to create a simple yet appealing graphical style.
The inclusion of a survival mode complete with local leaderboards always gives that “one more go” desire and is the kind of short-burst fun that can be whipped out at a bus stop to prevent bored nose-picking. At only a couple of quid it is also quite the bargain and is one of the better PSP Minis available on the PSN Store
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