Sitting in your lazy-e boy recliner flipping through the channels on the television... yawn, boring, nothing to watch. You flip off the television and the first rumblings in your stomach begins.. You know it's about that time, pushing in the foot rest you stand up and head toward your kitchen. The rumbling in your stomach gives you a swift kick in the gut just as you pass the threshold to your kitchen. Walking to the fridge you pop open the door and peer inside.. Just like every other man in history, you stand there for much longer than you should, hoping that the longer you search the greater the chances of something you like appearing. Like millions of men before you and millions of men after you you shut the door in disgust as nothing you like appeared. Weighing the options in your mind you realize you're left with the prospect of eating two week old bread, a zip lock bag containing meatloaf from a month ago and some baking soda..
Like the great comedies of old a tiny light bulb goes off in your mind... bright and flashing.. the idea of hitting up your local burger place flies into your mind. The food normally goes in one end and out the other in less than an hour but at the very least the cute girl you've been crushing on for the last year normally works the counter around this time (not that you've gone there enough to know that information). Maybe this time you might actually garner up the courage to say something other than.. "I'll take a number 1". Walking casually toward your front door, you grab your yellow windbreaker, the one adorned with a green zombie. Rethinking your decision you slowly shake your head and decide to grab the leather jacket you got last Christmas but never bothered to wear. "Welp, now's as good a time as any."
Slamming the door shut behind you, you begin to two block walk to "The Burger Shack". Walking toward the burger shack you ignore the various screams for help around you.. pfft, "aint nobody got time for helping people besides that, they must be filming a zombie movie or something". Finally you look across the street and see it, the burger shack, you feel a shutter in your stomach, trying to ignore it you step out into the street, making sure to look both ways.. nothing coming.. you start crossing the street... Half way across you spy your crush, she's shambling around, her head is bleeding and you see a rather large gash in her neck! You immediately stop in your tracks shocked at what you see..... What you failed to notice was the Semi truck speeding down the street to avoid the large crowd of zombies following it..
"Here lies (Well YOU)...
Plight of the Zombies is a fairly casual strategy/puzzle game. This game isn't you're typical zombie game, instead of mowing down droves of mindless brain gobblers, this one see's you in the shoes of the hungry zombie. Going about his business, eating brains, turning human's into zombies and trying to find love.. (OK the whole part about love isn't true, but if that's you're thing, I'd suggest Warm Bodies). The game is broken down into 6 main stages, with each of those stages having 10 different puzzles to solve. To finish the stages you need to turn all the human's into zombies, and also collect the brains, many of which are timed, if the timer run's out they disappear. Trying to prevent you from finishing the puzzles are a slew of different enemies, unarmed human's, shotgun wielders, handgun, etc etc etc..
Plight of the Zombies isn't the type of game you'll find yourself wanting to play for 10 hours a day, but it can be a nice time killer when you have an extra few minutes to kill and don't want to get into a deep game. The early puzzles are fairly simplistic, but the further along you get, the more complex and challenging they get. Often times you're left having to employ three, four sometimes even five zombies to complete a task. The game is a good casual game for people to play now, then put down for a few days and pick up to play without missing a beat. It's pretty solid in every department, the only issue I found with the game was the pathing of your zombies, it happened more times than I'd have liked to see, but occasionally my zombie would clip into an obstacle they clearly should have walked around, this would cause them to endlessly walk in place until I altered their course.
This game is recommended to anyone who enjoy's playing the anti-hero, if you would rather destroy the world rather than save it, this one is for you. It's also for people who like fun, casual experiences that don't require hundreds of hours to learn. It's a very pick up and play type game. I'd say this can be enjoyed by gamer's of all ages, kids will enjoy the simplistic nature and goofy zombies, adults will enjoy the complex challenge of trying to complete the stages in the fastest time possible. Would also be nice to see some achievements added in the near future, but certainly aren't neccesary.
