As you first load up your Red Dead Redemption copy after the grueling wait it took to download Undead Nightmare, you tend to think about the good ol’ times, hogtying women and throwing them on the train-tracks, or the time you took on an entire gang of United States Marshalls in a shootout.
Those were the days.
But now it’s Halloween time, and Rockstar Games has provided a whole new campaign experience, featuring none other than the brain eating zombies America has found a fascination with, including myself.
The opening sequence of the final downloadable content for Rockstar’s western third person shooter Red Dead Redemption just doesn’t give justice to the rest of the story.
Despite the quick and unemotional beginning, where your entire family turns each other into zombies one by one, the story carries along very well from there.
With the lead protagonist, John Marston, going from town to town talking to other survivors of the outbreak to try and find a cure, as well as fending off zombies in each city which provides you with a safe house, and a pillow to rest your head on – and save.
The characters are unforgettable once again, with old characters from the original campaign makings appearances, as well as new ones.
One survivor explains how clearing out the graveyards around the huge open-world map will start to get rid of the plague.
Clearing out the graveyards is no easy task.
You must burn coffins while fending off zombies that have already risen.
Each graveyard also provides a boss type zombie toward the end. This adds a little difficulty to the mission overall.
The mix of challenging game play, paired with the always spot on Rockstar voiceovers, provide for a compelling experience that is well worth the 800 Microsoft points, or $9.99.
The multiplayer section of the DLC is superb.
With game modes such as Undead Overrun, where you and three other players fend of wave after wave of zombies.
This is a game mode finding its way into so many shooters nowadays, such as Halo: Reach and the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, the variety make this a great buy for any fan of Rockstar Games.
Red Dead Redemption already had the some of the best replay-ability of any game on the market, and Undead Nightmare puts it far ahead of anything in that category.