There comes a time in every man’s life (or woman’s or alien’s for that matter) when they’re faced with a pending zombie apocalypse.  You have to be prepared to deal with it as best you can right?  What would one do if suddenly faced with the difficult task of laying waste to a zombie infestation?  You’d team up with friends and even a sidekick alien in town to kick some serious zombie flesh!

And thankfully our friends from Double Six aren’t leaving you without the proper tools to defend yourself with their deliberately insane Xbox Live Arcade title, All Zombies Must Die!  This was one of the games I had my sights on before heading out to PAX and it almost became one of the games I didn’t get a chance to play.  But on the last day of PAX I found my way to the All Zombies Must Die! booth and the fun soon began.

I linked up with Aaron Yeung, Associate Producer with Double Six.  First off he was pretty damn cool in delivering the spill on the game.  You could tell he was enjoying the game just as much as I was so that was a big plus.  Anyway, you and three friends take on the roles of Brian, Luxo (the alien), Rachel and Jack.  You have to start the game with Jack and then other friends can join in.

Jack is just like you and me.  Well maybe not like you and me because he wakes up in a zombie showdown and he’s loving it.  He’s a gamer so he’s well equipped to handle the madness after playing zombie games obviously.  While teaming up with his friends and an alien he has to repair his relationship with his ex girlfriend, Rachel, and join forces to make the latest “dream team”.  Sorry LeBron and Wade, you have nothing on Luxo, the Jamaican alien and his crew.  The little town of Deadhill is about to be toast eh?

Each character can level up specific stats as well as attach specific abilities to their weapons for added effect.  Don’t get too excited about that because the zombies also come in different flavors.  They can be changed with fire, radiation, sonic or shock.  There was one level of the game when we saw a zombie walk into a pile of toxic waste in the streets.  Hey, it’s a zombie apocalypse … there’s shit laying everywhere.  So after walking through the waste, the zombie went from being small and easy to kill to a beer-bellied freak that was much larger and harder.

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