A new arcade game made for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. The humour is the most important thing about the game and will let you play with a smile on your lips. Three anti-hero to block a horde of undeads, is it enough to overcome the all to samey levels?
A highly underrated game in my opinion. For a start off, I love multiplayer games and this game checks that box completely as it is highly fun to play with other people. The multiplayer itself is worth the points nevermind the single player mode which is highly addictive. If you want a game which is fun and addictive and you are someone who is a fan of defense sort games, then I strongly recommend this game to you. In my opinion this game deserves a 10. This game also has different difficulty settings which caters to people who want a challenge as well.
It's as if it was plucked from the earliest days of downloadable gaming, back when digital games often relied more on single-minded gimmicks than the fully fleshed-out concepts of late, and $10 seemed like such a great deal for any game you could play with buttons on a console. That era has long since passed us by, and we're better for it.
A prime example of failed execution in almost every respect. It controls poorly, the levels are boring, and the trap/barrier concept is never very well explored.
Absolutely amazing! Especially in co-op mode. Just love the unique humor of the game. The music is not my style but matches with the game. Wanna Rock tha Zombies!!! The traps are amazing, wondering what developers took to find these out. Gr8 stuff!!!
If you only play games in single-player, then chances are Dead Block will leave you wanting more. But if you're lucky enough to have a real-life friend to play with, you'll find Dead Block to be one of the most addictive co-op experiences available on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Gameplay is simple enough to grasp and packs enough of a challenge to keep you coming back for more. Played from a third-person perspective, you will control one of three character classes--each with their own strengths and weaknesses--as you attempt to survive a zombie onslaught.
These zombie invasions take place in a number of real world locales, including houses, schools and storage facilities. In order to survive you'll need to build a variety of different traps, including those that freeze zombies in place, blow them up and poison them. There are also a bunch of different environmental objects that can be used to aid your survival, including jukeboxes that cause the zombies to dance like nobody's watching and soda machines that restore health.
As you play you'll need to search various objects in order to acquire the goods you need to finish the level. Searching objects is done with a number of simple mini-games that require you to bash buttons in a certain order or align simple shapes with one another. Other reviews have criticised these mini-games for being too simple, but I disagree--the mini-games are simple because they NEED to be. This isn't a mini-game collection, after all, but a game about a zombie invasion. To this end the mini-games achieve exactly what they need to: they hold you in place for a few seconds at a time, while your co-op partner yells for you to "watch out!" because they've spotted a zombie creeping up behind you.
And this is what Dead Block gets right--the frantic sense that you're only a moment away from death. Co-op really shines here and if you don't work together then you'll more than likely end up in trouble. Resources are shared, which means you'll need to actually communicate with your couch co-op partner (no online play is available) and work together to plan your defenses. Forget to barricade a window and you'll be overrun by zombies in no time, especially on the game's hardest difficulty setting.
Players are also encouraged to work together by the fact that each character has their own strengths and weaknesses, as well as particular traps that no other class can build. This means that one of the characters is great at putting up barricades, for example, while another can search through items much faster for the vital components you need to build decent traps.
Throughout each level you will earn upgrades that gradually turn the tide in your favour, until you're bashing in zombie heads with reckless abandon and crying "look at me, ma!". Every level has medals on offer for completing certain goals, like searching through every item, or killing a certain number of zombies.
The only REAL downfall of Dead Block is that there's not enough of it. Although the medals look nice alongside the list of levels, it's unfortunate that they don't actually serve any purpose. Also lacking is any sort of endless invasion mode, or a "Very Hard" option for us masochists. Additionally, some of the traps seem poorly conceived and it's likely you'll come to rely on only one or two to get you through each level. In closing, Dead Block is addictive co-op fun with plenty of old-school charm. For only 800 MS Points, you'd have to be crazy (or undead) to not give it a go!
This game is tower defense meets **** zombies. The game is overall a good game, but once you master the melee mechanics the game becomes far to easy. By the 3rd mission I rarely even used traps and just decided to melee groups of zombies on the hardest setting. The lack of Online multiplayer is also another hit to this game, had this game had some online multiplayer and harder settings it would have been a gem.
Everything about this game on the surface seems great. Zombies, 50's style campy horror, vastly different personas for the cartoony characters, co-op (local only mind you). I even had a curiously good time for about the first 3 minutes. Then I stepped in the huge steaming pile that this game is. You are just way to busy punishing your B button blandly swinging away at furniture and harvesting wood from it to enjoy anything thats going on around you (it seems to take 10 to 20 rapid presses for each piece of furniture you destroy). THATS 95% OF THE GAME. It actually aggravated me more than any game I can recall in recent history. With the atmosphere and co-op screaming "I am fun!", I wanted so much to like this game. I thought..."Whoever was overseeing this project with such clear potential couldn't have screwed up THIS bad." I made it to about 15 minutes before angrily powering off my 360 and shouting. "Man, there is no getting around it, this game is just absolutely monotonous, controller breaking, unnecessary horse ****.!" Unless you are 5 years old and you need to where a crash helmet to eat a bowl of cereal, you will experience buyer's remorse with this one.
Bought this today as I'm a fan of this kind of game. Have to say wish I hadn't. Very dull gameplay that involves some extremely boring mini games. Repetetive button mashing as you constantly have to smash up objects. Old mechanics of finding a key to open a door. And worst of all no online play. Didn't find it fun at all. Very average title. Can't imagine it's going to do well in the reviews. Best avoided.
SummaryDead Block focuses on innovative defensive gameplay in which the few remaining survivors, Jack Foster (a construction worker), Foxy Jones (a traffic warden), and Mike Bacon (a perpetually hungry boy scout) have formed an unlikely alliance to protect themselves from the invading undead. Hiding in various shelters around town, they avoid Z...