You got your zombie in my multiplayer!

Saints Row 2 may not have the story complexity of GTA IV, but there are more than enough crazy missions and minigames to make up for lack of realism. One of our favorite minigames is selectable from the TV in your loft. Called Zombie Uprising, you and a buddy fight through six waves of a slowly-approaching zombie horde.

Slowly-approaching? That may not sound scary at first, but that’s how they get ya. Have you seen any old-school zombie flick? They lumber toward the main character’s brainflesh at a snail’s pace and it’s always stupid mistakes that doom them. You’ll be fine if you keep moving, but like real life, one dumb move will get you or your best friend eaten.

Gut Spillage!

The toughest thing in this mode is making sure to conserve ammo. If you’re like us, you’ll just want to keep shooting the damn things. Trust us though, ammo is scarce and like real zombies, you should always aim for the head. If the zombies don’t have heads, shoot their chests. Just keep moving. Where this mode differs from the intense L4D survival mode is that your impending death is slowly creeping up on you, giving you an unsettling feeling. And no, you can’t use the septic tank spray on zombies here. Don’t worry, shooting poo at the undead remains one of our life’s long-term goals.

Out of all of the modes listed, Zombie Nazis is arguably the one with the most strategy built in. Taking place inside a boarded-up house, you’ll need to defend against waves of the undead Third Reich. Unlocked once you complete the single-player campaign, you and three others attempt to defend a fortified structure.

Like the multiplayer campaign, you rack up points with kills - with different point values based on headshots or melee kills - yet, you’re not competing against your compatriots, so much as watching their backs. You absolutely will not survive if you don’t work as a team. Zombie Nazis is similar to L4D, but works at a completely different pace. We say: play the hell out of it!

Decapitastic!

Besides the killin’, the toughest part about this mode is navigating what to do between waves when deciding how to spend your points. Do you rebuild boards for the windows? Move couches to go upstairs? Buy new weapons? Skip the mystery boxes and reload your current weapon? What will net you the most points? Why are you still reading and not preparing for the apocalypse?

Mar 10, 2009

Because playing with yourself is only fun for so long

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