Friday 5 November 2010

UNDEAD NIGHTMARE

Undead Nightmare is an excellent zombie DLC expansion for Red Dead Redemption. It offers brand new single player story which lasts around six hours as well as a whole horde of extra missions just like the standard singe player story.
The story is a tongue in cheek adventure to find why the world of Red Dead Redemption has turned to Hell. John Marstons family are attacked, within the first couple of minutes by zombies and subsequently become zombies forcing John Marston to seek answers in order to save his family and the rest of the game world.



Gameplay works in the same way as the regular game with John tracking down characters and helping them with jobs which in turn reward him with more information. As well as the story unfolding there are a lot of new extra jobs and missions to complete. These range from finding missing people (which takes the bounty missions place) to helping strangers with sometime very strange tasks just to be a nice guy (and get some much needed ammo).
There is also so much to be appreciated when just riding around. Seeing the undead gathering in a field as you ride by is unnerving  and the new weather effects including a green moon are outstanding. At one point just fr the fun of it I travelled to a cabin in Tall trees and waited for the undead to surround me just to recreate scenes from "Night of the living dead"

The usual Honour meter is gone meaning you're free to do what you will without ramifications and actions regarding money like shopping and mini games are gone and instead your rewards for pretty much any task is ammo or new guns.



Now onto the Zombies. Every town on the map is being overrun by the undead and on entering the town you are prompted to find any survivors and vanquish the demons. The zombies are pretty terrifying and can only be taken down with head shots or explosives (burning them will also eventually kill them) .It isn't just the people that have turned either, every living creature including bears, cougars and horses have all been infected.

There are too many features to list here like new online modes, weapons new outfits and I guess some things I still haven't come across but all in all this DLC pack is a must buy. The value for money is amazing and will keep you busy almost as long as the original game.

Undead Nightmare DLC is available now on Xbox  marketplace and Playstation store (and soon to be released on disc)

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