A Gaming Diary
Dead Panic (iPhone)
Now, this is very interesting. It’s not a shooter, though it does have shooter elements. It’s not a tower defense game, though it has elements of that genre, too.
It definitely is, though, yet another zombie game.
Basically, you have army men in the middle of the screen, or thereabouts. On some levels you can position them, on others their positions are preset. Zombies stagger on to the screen and you turn your men to face them, so they can shoot them.
It’s different, it’s frantic, it’s tense, it really feels like a zombie siege… and I’m not sure it’s as good as I want it to be.
I’ve got a couple of problems with the game. The first is that it’s very, very hard. I’m currently stuck on the third level, where my two men don’t seem to have any hope of defeating the incoming hordes. I’ve tried positioning them in all sorts of places, but with no luck.
I’m wondering if I should have three men and that losing a chap on the previous level means I only have two for this level, but I can’t seem to finish level two with everyone alive. It’s a problem.
The other problem is that in the heat of the moment I repeatedly move the wrong character. This has led to many, many deaths. I suspect this is my fault, but when the vision cone of one character overlaps another character I’m having trouble selecting the man I want. I need to play more to see if this is a fault with me or the game but, as I said, I think it’s me.
I may even have to turn the difficulty down to Easy, but I only noticed that option during my last session with the game and haven’t tried it yet.
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