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State of Decay, I can't wait to see what this dev comes out with when it brings a full retail game to the table because this $20 xbox live arcade game is one of the best zombie games I've played. The story is ok and there's some repetition if you try and complete all the objectives and get all the achievements but I expect that with open world games. I don't remember how many balloons I rescued in Spiderman 2.

Interesting concept in this one is leveling up your cardio, fighting, shooting, etc... and if you die your character is gone. You move on to another survivor and maybe get a chance to rescue some of the stuff your dead mate had on him or her. So be careful about sticking to one or two characters too much because if they die, get hurt, get sick, or just get too tired with no coffee or amphetamines to keep them going you will be stuck with fresh meat. Anyway, I think I ended up with 16 survivors after letting two die for achievements (stupid to have to do that...) which was plenty for me. Your resources are also finite, there's only so many cars in the city and you better do some scavenging because you won't be getting more ammo from the gun store once you clean it out. Good stuff.

I recommend this one, it can be buggy and the dialogue isn't great but the gameplay more than makes up for it. It really does include quite a few things I've been looking for in a zombie game for YEARS but haven't seen in the likes of your Dead Risings and Left 4 Deads.