The game restarts at its next stage, a base constructed in Shadwell tube station - ZombiU is set in London - and 'manned' by the same disembodied voice, who calls himself the Prepper. Your GamePad's functions upgrade throughout the campaign, and the Alien-aping motion tracker is used well - it indicates enemies on the map, but also crows.ĭying during the tutorial always gets a thumbs-up from me, and the way ZombiU handles it is even better. I was hauled down again and, this time, unceremoniously mauled. I scrambled up and, facing another two zombis, tried to go for the ladder again. We both fell, the viewpoint hitting the ground at 90 degrees with a dull thud.
Except the view then jerked downwards to a zombi grabbing my leg - which began clumsily grasping my waist as I kicked out at its mouth, panicking. The first-person perspective showed my hands gripping the rungs and movement upwards: relief. Surrounded by zombis, I dashed to a ladder under the instructions of a mysterious cockney. The first time I died in ZombiU was during the tutorial. It's a game where you have to remain in total control of every encounter, or death follows.
ZombiU's zombis are the classic shambler - slow-moving but relentless when roused, invulnerable to anything but headshots and invariably deadly up-close. Discounting the Day Z mod (which is quite distinct from this), it's been a long time since zombies have lived up to that idea. The concept of ZombiU comes down to an overly familiar combination of words: survival horror. If it's not quite perfect then that's no terrible criticism, and whatever else, it is one hell of a launch title. No timid attempt at carving off a slice of the bloated zombie market, ZombiU takes a new path - one that cuts a swathe through the horde. ZombiU is a re-imagining of the very first game that Ubisoft ever published, and represents a back-to-basics approach of the best kind. ZombiU isn't just the Wii U's obligatory FPS launch title - it's an original twist on the genre with no exact equivalent on console.
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