I'm not going to brag about it, but what impresses me most about this game is its "old school" feel. Pixel art style, closed room, waves of zombies rushing towards your face, 3D first-person shooting - isn't this a luxurious and enhanced version of the "survival shooting" I played while hiding under the covers in the Saipan era? At that time, there were so many fancy card draws and plots. Just a broken pistol, a broken wall, and a bunch of zombies could play all night.
Let's talk about the game itself. Its core is to guard the room, but it is not mindless. You have to think about how to set up traps and how to use barriers to block the movement of zombies. In some levels, zombies will crawl in through the windows, some will smash through walls, and there are also fat bosses that can spray venom. If you don't plan your route in advance, you'll just wait to die if you run out of bullets. The arsenal of weapons is indeed large enough, from knives and axes to pistols and rifles. Unlocking a new submachine gun and watching the ballistics leave bullet holes on the pixel wall is really no less satisfying than those current 3A masterpieces that give you a golden legend.
But I have to be honest, the shortcomings of this game are also obvious. First, the hand feels a bit stiff, and turning and reloading are a bit slow. Friends who are used to playing modern FPS may have to adapt for a while; second, the feeling of repetitive labor is a bit strong, and the cycle of paying money to buy guns becomes a bit boring in the later stages. But considering it's free and the developer is Shenzhen Mobile Games – to be honest, I've never heard of this company before, but it's a good idea to be able to create such a sense of oppression and strategy in pixel shooting.
There is also a bit of nostalgia. In 2014, I had dozens of jar games on my phone, each worth a few hundred K, such as "Crazy Zombies" and "Aliens vs. Predator". The pixel quality was mushy, but I still enjoyed playing them. Nowadays, the graphics of mobile games are as exquisite as those in movies, but it is rare to find the joy of "smashing through level after level and finally getting over it." This game brings back a little bit of the feeling I had back then.
If you don't mind old-school operations, like to study level strategies, or simply want to find a fun game that doesn't cost money and can be played at any time for two games, you can try “Extreme Challenge-Crazy Agent”. Since it has Chinese language and is free, I give it 7 points. One more point for fear of making it proud. 😏
Okay, I went to brush money to buy that M249, and the zombies knocked on the door again. 👋