THE GOOD
This game is a party favourite. I invited my upstairs neighbors down (and his wife’s sister and her boyfriend), and after some talking and drinking and overall mellow atmosphere (and a few oatmeal cream pies) i thought, i’d whip this out and play. Just for a change of pace.

wow! everyone loved this game. we all took turns playing, about 15 minutes, and it was a blast. Not hard to learn the controls at all. there’s a tutorial/practice section, so we knew what the moves & buttons where. Even though the story isn’t very rich, its fun to just slice and lob off zombie parts and dice up giants. The controls were simple, when your arms get tired, you just pass off to the next person. no big deal.

its fun to watch other’s play, the action doesn’t really seem to get dull when watching either.

The graphics are actually pretty dang good. there’s the ability to stop the action, and swing the camera around the character you are playing. you can see the zombies, and the action your character is doing. and the cool part, you can stop the action whenever: a jump in mid-air, a slice, pulling a bloody lump of flesh out of creature, just walking. whenever, and you can zoom in and out and look at the character from any angle. sort of cool.

There’s a co-op mode

there are 4 playable characters (one of them is really creepy)

the dialog is in japanese and the text is translated into english, but the voice acting is incredibly good.

THE BAD
I’ll start with co-op first. Not really what I had in mind. It’s just the two of you slicing zombies. sort of fun, but doesn’t progress the story any. there was a time when the graphics completely lagged due to all the blood which had to be rendered.

second: your arms get tired! playing by myself, i did get tired. and bored. Let’s be honest, slicing zombies only goes so far. :-/

third: after unlocking a new character (skimpily clad girl) you play the same level’s again. Still killing zombies. the only difference is the boss fights. You fight the other 3 girls.

4: the game doesn’t tell you that there’s save points in the middle of the levels or how to clean the blood off your body (which makes you go crazy and eventually die). Nor does the game tell you how to access items you acquire. sort of had to figure that part out on my own

5. the acrobatics are amazing. but, if you get knocked down. good luck figuring out how to get back up.

Overall, this game is pretty fun. I didn’t enjoy playing the game by-myself as much as i did playing with others. The game also leaves a lot of questions. I guess, they want you to buy the 360 version to discover the answers. The acrobatics are very cool, but the not really knowing how to get up and getting pummeled while lying there, was frustrating.

The graphics are very cool. I thought they could’ve been better, but when there’s scores of enemies surrounding you and blood is going everywhere, the Wii actually at times lags. I’ve also noticed graphics artifacts (hitting through walls, or zombies walking through you)

Don’t expect too much from this game, and you’ll be impressed. Expect a whole lot and you won’t be disappointed, but you might get bored.
Rating: 4 / 5

The most frustrating parts are when the zombies grab your weapon, I mean what other game has had zombies being able to act the least bit intelligent? This game has *smart* zombies!

The graphics are good and play smoothly. The radar is helpful and being able to throw daggers from a distance is fun but nothing beats that up close and personal slashing into pieces or kicking in the face treatment after a hard day in reality. lol!

This game was so fun that my friend wants to play it just about everytime he comes over! Heh, now I know what to get him for his birthday.

The survival mode is really hard but fun and once you or your partner are down, you are DOWN for the count until you A) restart or B) quit or C) the Zombies get you and the game ends anyway.

All in all, the only thing that kept it from being a perfect score for me was the fact that survival mode should have a score system in co-op mode so you can know who’s kicking more butt than the other. Lol!
Rating: 4 / 5

Well, you don’t have to ask because OBZS gives it to you anyway. Not only does the standard play give you two killer main characters, with different play styles, and an incredibly deep and varied combat engine, but the extras and unlockables go far beyond the call of duty…

Hidden characters each with their own story mode to play through, a model viewer complete with moves and voice, multiplayer, free play, and on and on…

The level up system is very welcome addition, as well. Pick a character, and level her up as you see fit. You can continue to evolve characters outside of the main story mode.

If I had to find a negative, it would probably be the save function. In the proper area, you have to select ’save’ from the option menu. I thought this was a little clunky, and I didn’t see it mentioned in the manual.

All-in-all though, this may well be my favorite action title for some time to come. Very fun, and very hard to put down.
Rating: 4 / 5