Evil Dead Game (and other Horror Games)

[napalm68]

What is everyone here's opinion of some of the horror games available in the last 5 years? The Resident Evil Series, Silent Hill, and there are others. lthough I didn;t much enjoy the puzzle solving crap in Resident Evil 2, the zombies rocked.

But, game play wise, as a horror fan, there are some things I'd REALLY like to change in the horror games:
1 - If there is a locked door in front of you, and you are armed with a shotgun, YOU DON'T NEED A FUCKING KEY
2 - Zombies are cool. You are better off putting a room full of 50x 3 hit zombies than a 150 hit boss. Hell, even walking into a room with 5 or so Zombies in RE2 made me panic. The boss was just a nuisance.
3 - Put beer and liquor in the game, and have realistic effects if you drink too much. I really like in Redneck Rampage how if you drink too much alcohol, it makes you feel better, but you can't walk straight, can't shoot straight, and your vision blurrs. And hell, them short time dead zombie chicks may start lookin' kinda purty...
4 - Ammo. If you are going to put zombies in my way, make sure I have enough ammo to shoot them all. Dodgin' Zombies is a past-time for ballet dancers and mamma's boys. RE2 was pretty frustrating at the start, when the bulk of the zombies were there, you didn't have enough ammo.
5 - If you are going to come up with a story line, look to horror stories with good stories. The Resident Evil stories were lame, I thought. Silent Hill was better though.
6 - Secret mini games and weapons. Having to play a game through 3 times really really fast to get a mini gun is a form of torture. I'm sure we could lodge a class action against the game manufacturers about this... I am still pissed about that, and pissed about not being able to get the chainsaw in Silent Hill.

And speaking of Horror Games, I bought Evil Dead PC game friday. I chose it over the PSX version as the graphics looked slightly better. Was really looking forward to playing it.

Well, it didn't happen. Let me just say that I am so sick of PC games. I have now learnt my lesson, and will never buy another. I'll stick to consoles. I wish those monkeys making the games would either test them better, or list the actual hardware they have tested on. I have pretty standard hardware, and the latest directx. I am so sick of games that I can't even run, or having to spend 5 hours trying to get them working. It is way to much work. It sucks. And they just blame the hardware. As a software developer myself, I find it pretty obnoxious the crap the foist on us. Hell, you can't even get error logs from these things, to try figure out why the fuck it doesn't want to cooperate, it just locks up. Had the same problem with Resident Evil Nemesis, but with Nemesis, I perservered and found what setting actually worked. Of course, with Evil Dead, there are no set up options. And it doesn't work.

[y2doublet]

I really dig those old-school PC horror-games like Harvester and Phantasmagoria. You know where you walked two screens, cue FMV-segment, walked two screens, solved a puzzle, cue FMV-segment, walked two screens and so on. Aah, the mindless fun of it. But frankly, Phantasmagoria managed to give me a few scares, until it broke down on my PC and I couldn't get any further. Same thing happened with Harvester on an another computer so I definitely agree with you on those PC-incompability issues dude.

[MacReady]

I'm a huge fan of the Resident Evil series (on PSX, of course) and I am eagerly anticipating the movie coming out next year!

In case you weren't aware, it's being directed by Paul (Event Horizon) Anderson and will star Milla (The Fifth Element)Jovovich and Michelle (Girlfight) Rodriguez.

Cool!

[y2doublet]

I'm too am a fan of the Resident Evil-series, mainly the Code Veronica-one on Dreamcast though. But, ugh, the movie-adaption sounds terrible. Perhaps that's just me being annoyed and disappointed that the produceras decided to boot Romero from the project. Man, what a zombie-feast that would have been.

[Andrew]

I played RE2 a few times back before I was really into horror, mostly to find out what all the fuss was about. It was ok, kind of got boring after a while though.

I have Hail to the King on PlayStation and the game bores me to shit. Stupid as hell.

[TobalRox]

I STILL have to get Resident Evil: Code Veronica for DC... I think I've been holding off on getting it because I have yet to complete 1 or 2... I got 1 for PC, and to play games on PC I usually have to go out of my way to play them... When I'm on my computer, I usually want to do things that a computer does like go online, chat, edit my movies, etc.... and playin games I just don't usually do, whereas I play consoles a lot because I can do that and still be online at the same time on my computer... I think I may just have a problem/addiction though ;) Anyway, that is the reason I never played the first one much (i didn't have a PSX at the time), and the 2nd one a friend of mine borrowed for the longest time, I finally got it back and I look forward to playing again. Once I complete those, I should definitely be getting 3 and CV for DC. I do have a game called Carrier for DC that is similar to Resident Evil, but has a more Sci-Fi feel to it, but still some horror elements. It's not great, but not bad for the $20 pricetag I got it for.

[napalm68]

May have to dig up a dreamcast for Code Veronica... Should be able to get one really cheap I guess :)

I'm looking forward to some good horror games getting released for the PS2 - something more powerful, but foolproof (unlike these FUCKING PC games)

[y2doublet]

I remember seeing pictures and reading about Carrier right before it was released in the US. It was the first horror-title for DC and it looked really good making me looking forward to it all the more. Then of course it never got released in Sweden, so I couldn't rightly satisfy my horror on DVD-needs while waiting for RE:CV. Man, what a bummer but RE did eventually get released and it was worth the wait.

[Trout]

Blood was a pretty cool game, but it is 4 years old by now. Halflife is very cool, even if it is getting old too.

The really cool thing about these games: They came with level editors.

[Werner Von Wallenrod]

Jeez... I'm, what? Post #9? And the first one to talk about the title subject? ;)

Well, as far as the Evil Dead game: I got a kick out of it. It was a little hard to get started, but once you made some progress, it became super easy. Rent it; don't buy it... 'Cause you can beat it by the time you have to return it.
The controls are good... A slightly actioned up Resident Evil, but still not up to, say, Tomb Raider or Legacy of Kain (the Soul Reaver entries, of course).
Atmosphere/ story-wise, it started out cool... The attention paid to being accurate with the cabin and its immediate lay-out was great to see, and it was cool that disc 2 took you back into the medieval times, a la Army of Darkness. But, all in all, the game was too silly (i.e. zombie boy-scouts), and not genuinely funny enough... But what could you expect? A script up to what Raimi would've done? Oh well. The TV commercial made the whole project worthwhile, anyway.
I had much fun playing all the way through it.

[Mark Relford]

I love the Resident Evil series. (Faults and all.) It paved the way for survival horror. The movie adaptation sounds awful. (What's up with this super computer nonsense?)
Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Resident Evil 2, and Code: Veronica are my favorites from the series. RE: Nemesis was decent, but very annoying. I hated that f*cking mutant with a passion! (Stars...Stars...Stars...) I wont even go into RE: Gun Survivor. (UGH!)
Anyone collect the books or have the cancelled WS comic series?

Silent Hill had great atmosphere and chilling visuals. Your character, Harry is a Joe six-pack, not some gung ho commando with excellent aim. The radio was a nice element in the game. There's nothing lke walking down a foggy street and your radio picks up the presence of a nearby spook. Hell, who can forget the little bastards with the knives! A sequel is being made for the PS2. (Can't wait!)

Carrier was OK. It was more enjoyable than it ought to be. The googles were nice to have. (And a life saver!)

Castlevania: SOTN was a perfect game, IMO. (Same with Soul Reaver.) N64's Castlevania games were pathetic. (Just because it's in 3-D, doesn't make it good.)

The Evil Dead game was tolerable. The respawning enemies were a pain in the ass and the gameplay was creaky. Still, it had some good moments and terrific Campbell quotes. I'm happy to own it for collecting purposes.

Countdown Vampires made a nice coaster.

Anyone remember the charming Zombies Ate My Neighbors?
Or the JAWS, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street games for the Nintendo?

[TobalRox]

I remember all those games, and still play them to this day (except Nightmare, I've never played it) thanks to the wonder known as emulation. I also have the PC version of the Nightmare game, but I don't remember if it's the same as the NES version. There were some Aliens games made too (including the cool ALiens vs. Predator)

[napalm68]

Just an update. I took my ED game back to the store, and got into a shit fight. They tried installing it on a machine there, and got further than I did, but it still fucked up. They still wouldn't give me a refund. I said, you got to be kidding, it doesn't work properly on that machine either. My machine meets the specs advertised on the box, I followed all instructions, including troubleshooting tips, but still no luck, so what more do you want. They were wanting to try installing it on a better machine, to see if it would work on that. I said what the hell would that prove. I told them I'd bring my PC down from Brisbane next week to prove it didn't work (I work interstate) on mine, as that was the only way they'd be satisfied that it didn't work. They finally agreed to just give me a refund (it was closing time) but all the registers were closed so I have to go back tomorrow.

So I have learnt my lesson - I will never buy a PC game ever again, unless I take my PC to the store to try it out. FUCK PC games.

Shit, just watching our local Multicultural channel and they are advertising some cool looking Korean psychological horror "Whispering Corridors". Damn, SBS is cool. The amount of euro and asian horror that they have shown... One thing I don't mind my tax going towards...

[Jason Reynolds]

I can't get into the Evil Dead game. I got it for the PC, and just can't get used to the controls.

I play most of my games on the Playstation. I loved the Resident Evil series, and Silent Hill was cool as well.

Just got the demo for the new Alone in the Dark game. the graphics are excellent, but not sure about the gameplay (for the PC.)

-Jason

[AceRimRat]

Originally posted by Mark Relford
I love the Resident Evil series. (Faults and all.) It paved the way for survival horror. The movie adaptation sounds awful. (What's up with this super computer nonsense?)
Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Resident Evil 2, and Code: Veronica are my favorites from the series. RE: Nemesis was decent, but very annoying. I hated that f*cking mutant with a passion! (Stars...Stars...Stars...) I wont even go into RE: Gun Survivor. (UGH!)
Anyone collect the books or have the cancelled WS comic series?


I, too, am a die-hard fan of the RE series (on PSX/2) and I can't wait for Code Veronica and whatever else is coming. (Even though I haven't finished three yet.)

That dog-through-the-window bit still scares the crap out of me, even though I know it's coming.

I have the books, and most of the comics - I missed the 5th one that went out short-printed or something when WS canceled it. Don't want to pay a fortune on eBay for it. There was another series ("Blood and Ice"? "Fire and Ice"?) that WS started, but I didn't get it. New characters and stuff - I didn't like the RE book that wasn't based on a game, so I skipped 'em.

And yeah, Survivor was the HackMaster version of Resident Evil, wasn't it? :mad:

[TobalRox]

I was just about to bring up Alone in the Dark :-) I too got the demo, but I just installed it, haven't played it yet. I loved the first 3 on PC (I even played the first one on 3DO). I believe the creater of AITD helped make the original Resident Evil. My PC copy of the first one also included a game called Jack In The Dark, which I never really played much, but seemed like a kids version of Alone in the Dark (locked in a toy store instead of a house, toys come after you, you're a little kid in a halloween costume). Damn, now I want to play those games again :) hehe.. And back at the beginning of this thread someone mentioned Phantasmagoria... I loved this game, I was always a big fan of point and click adventure games ever since the original Secret of Monkey Island on my old 286, and have been playing them ever since. Unfortunately, I got stuck at this one part in the game where I did exactly what all my friends did to get by it, but for some reason it would tell me that i couldn't do it ( It hink it was slip something under the door to your character's husband). That kind of got me frustrated and I stopped playing, but I'll definitely start playing it again if I can find it. My friend got the second one and that was a pretty cool game as well. Anyone ever play any of the Gabriel Knight series?

[Fart Lighter]

well, I don't like consoles at all.i don;t like stinking joypads, memory limitations and so forth. All the better games such as THIEF and ALICE are often PC only.
However, I just picked up EVIL DEAD AHIL TI THE KING here in the UK, and it won't work. It winges that my card isn't Directx 8 compliant. I'm not ahppy, but my card is old.

[Mark Relford]

Originally posted by AceRimRat


I, too, am a die-hard fan of the RE series (on PSX/2) and I can't wait for Code Veronica and whatever else is coming. (Even though I haven't finished three yet.)

That dog-through-the-window bit still scares the crap out of me, even though I know it's coming.

I have the books, and most of the comics - I missed the 5th one that went out short-printed or something when WS canceled it. Don't want to pay a fortune on eBay for it. There was another series ("Blood and Ice"? "Fire and Ice"?) that WS started, but I didn't get it. New characters and stuff - I didn't like the RE book that wasn't based on a game, so I skipped 'em.

And yeah, Survivor was the HackMaster version of Resident Evil, wasn't it? :mad:


Yep, issue #5 is hard to find. I managed to track down a copy. The first story, "...AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST" was a fun read. It's about this geek that gets picked on at a boarding school. He vows revenge on the bullies. The geek breaks into an Umbrella research facility and steals a vial filled with green "Re-Animator" glop. He injects it into his arm and mutates into a tyrant. It's bully smashing time!

The second story, "EMMY'S BLOODY SPOON" was weak. It shows a cafe getting zombified.

The third story, "KANE & ABE" is a continuation of "ZOMBIES ABROAD." It's OK.

I stopped collecting the novels after "UNDERWORLD." They were decent reads, but it got too silly for me at times. Some of the characters' background info was interesting.

My favorite RE game is the second one. Being chased by that HUGE alligator in the sewer was memorable.
Ace, you'll love Code: Veronica! It's a good entry in the RE series. The Leonardo DiCaprio wannabe named Steve was annoying to say the least. And watch out for those poisonous hunters! (Ouch.)

Another game that I forgot to mention was Dino Crisis. My favorite moment was when the T-Rex crashed through the window. Man, that scared the living shit out of me!:D
Haven't played the second one yet.

[TobalRox]

Dino Crisis was another one i was going to pick up for DC since it was cheap right away. Also, in RE2, I loved the fact that there was the option to play as the Umbrella Agent as well, that was some fun stuff. Man, the more I read this thread, the more I think about all the horror games, and man do I love them :)

[Muncher-667]

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to cop out and go with TobolRox and FartLigher. I can't stand consoles and some of the earlier games were precursors to the RE style of game, hence Alone in the Dark. T'was a great little game - I remember nearly beating part 1, and I really wanted part 2. I also hate the controls of consoles. I did, indeed, play a game called Gabriel Knight and it ROCKED. You won't see classics like that on a console.

Allan.

[TobalRox]

Well, if you go from my posts, you'll realize that I have nothing against consoles... I dont' mind the controls, but I do enjoy some of the computer games. I remember only getting to play a demo of AITD 3 and it was sweet (Western Style)... As for Gabriel Knight, I have the first one still, but some loser kid i knew borrowed my Beast Within game (that was the same time period as Phantasmagoria coming out, so it was a 6 CD game that was almost 100% FMV), damn I miss that game... I never had a chance to get very far. I heard that a new one just came out that was all polygons... dunno how I feel about that.

[napalm68]

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to stick with consoles unless there is a game I just have to have. PCs work out way too expensive. Ie, you are always having to upgrade hardware and peripherals, just to play a game. I did manage to get my money back on the Evil Dead game that wouldn't play, but the problems I had with it and RE3 have really ground in to me what a waste of time PC games can be. I just don't need the extra stress. I get enough of that from work. I just want to put the damn thing in and play it. I don't mind a bit of extra frigging about, like updating directx and drivers, but games developers must be the biggest bunch of cowboys on the planet - I at least expect a fucking error message, or to be able to turn on diagnostics if something ain't working. Hell, if clients I develope software for got stuff like these games, they'd kill me... :)

So I figure, paying $700 australian for a ps2 + $100 for RE4 when it eventually comes out still works out cheaper than spending $1200 upgrading the PC, + $80 for the game, plus gee, probably need some new controller (another $100) as the pricks only support some other type of device (yeah, that has actually happened with RE3 on the PC - I thought I'd be able to configure/use my 5 button trackball for a controller (love that device), but no... I had to spend another $90 to be a good Microsoft sidewinder controller).

So I'm not happy at all with PC games. I am not getting into the rut of having to spend $1000+ a year upgrading hardware to play a few games.

[TobalRox]

Wow, guess things are a lot more expensive in Austrailia, because I haven't paid anywhere near that for anything in a long time. Also, usually when games are PC ports of console games, they are buggy because they just port the code and don't really test or anything. If it's actually made for the PC, it's usually much better and not as buggy, and you can always get patches to make it better. Ports almost always suck.

[y2doublet]

But the king of all horror-games is still Splatterhouse 1-3 for Sega Genesis. That's atmosphere, mindless ass-kicking and blood to the fullest. Never managed to find an actual physical copy of the game but the emulator-version is running fine. Gotta love those emulators, gave me the opportunity to play classics like Jaws, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 - The Dreamchild. ;) All of them pretty much sucked except NOES 3 which sucked but still got my attention for a couple of minutes.

How about Shadowman then? The premise, the plot and the graphics were really promising but somewhere along the line they still managed to make a really mediocre game. I was very disappointed with this one and never got in to it at all. Though giving it some more time may make it evolve to something better. There wasn't anything wrong with the feel of it; swampy, dark, kind of Barker-esqué voodoo-horror.

I bought the Blair Witch Collectors Box, something like that, thinking I was making a bargain with two movies and three games. But man was I wrong, there you have some other games that went nowhere fast. You couldn't steer the main character to do squat and when it was time to whop some ghostly asses I found myself running in circles. Haven't even been able to lower my standards to the extent that I could watch Blair Witch 2 (ugh).

[Fredson]

I enjoyed playing ALONE IN THE DARK on PC a lot and it scared me sometimes a lot, yet it was often not working. RE on playstation scared me to hell especiallly when the dogs jump through the windows, pretty much at the beginning.
Silent Hill I jsut played recently and thought it was the creepiest and best horrorgame I've ever played. The atmosphere in that game is so fantastic I think, you can't stop playing it anymore once you're into it!
I'm defintely gonna play it through again as soon as I can find time for it!
cu Fredson

[napalm68]

TobalRox - that may explain my recent problems - both games have been Playstation ports. The reason I bought RE3 on PC was the mercenaries game was unlocked. I just don't have the patience to unlock these things on the Playstation. I gave up looking for the mini games in RE2...

And the only PC game I have bought and played lately is Redneck Rampage. Now if they bought out some ultra fine version of that requiring an upgrade I'd do it...

[TobalRox]

I first played Splatterhouse on the TG-16... later I played 3 on Genesis... I don't think I've ever played 2. In Japan it was an arcade game, and they also had an NES version, all of which I played on emulators. I used to have an emulation site, I had so much crap... damn thing got shut down though. I'm trying to get as much as I can still though.

As for Redneck Rampage, picture the upgrade Duke did from Build engine to UT engine.. oh yeah! :-) hehe..

I thought of another horror game recently again, but I can't think of it now... I know a phantasm game was made for Saturn, but it was Japan only, so I never got t play it.

[TobalRox]

I remember now... It was Flesh Feast for PC... it was made by SegaSoft and it was VERY Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead... complete with graveyards and malls! A lot of people knocked it, but once you got into it (esp. multiplayer) it was a pretty sweetass game... and gory :-) Anyone else play it?

[napalm68]

Yeah, an updated Redneck Rampage would be great... That Flesh Feast sounds good. I might try digging it up. No pun intended...

[rhett]

Originally posted by Mark Relford
Anyone remember the charming Zombies Ate My Neighbors?
Or the JAWS, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street games for the Nintendo?

Yes! I own them all, and these games are great. It is kind of funny though, that the Hackmaster version of NOTLD has almost the exact same music as the reocurring theme in the Friday the 13th game. Give it a listen!

[napalm68]

A few posts here on Alone in the Dark - anyone here have any recommendations on the new Alone ion the Dark New Nightmare?

Or Dino Crisis 2 for that matter? That game looks pretty bloodthirsty.

[ephilman]

I just got this for the PC and haven't gotten very far. The graphics are good and very dark (you mostly wield a flashlight to see - and you have to use it to find goodies), and the sound is nicely atmospheric. The main complaint would be the Nocturne-like controls are dodgy at best. The enemies seem to take an inordinate amount of bullets, so I can see that we're going to have ammunition issues (I hate ammunition issues!). The "flow" from screen to screen is jerky, and you never know your character's orientation till a second or two after the change, leaving you spinning in confusion when you're attacked right away.

If I had to do this again, I think I would have gotten a console version (Dreamcast would have been nice). The video seems to be at a fixed low resolution, though I just downloaded a hack for that. It takes up 400 megs on a hard drive plus needs two game cds (three total - the first is an installer).

I'm going to try and be optimistic.

(edited for grammer - I is a college graduate)

[ephilman]

Some other horror titles for the PC would be...
- the CALL OF CTHULHU: SHADOW OF THE COMET and it's sequel, PRISONER OF ICE. Despite some highly illogical puzzles, they were fun. Before there were PC graphics there were Infocom text adventures, and THE LURKING HORROR was a blast. Also text were THE HOUND OF SHADOW, Stephen King's THE MIST, and DEMON'S TOMB.
-Early graphic horror would include the ELVIRA, WAXWORKS, and PERSONAL NIGHTMARE trilogy (using the same graphics and interface, that is. Not the same stories). There were also to very difficult games based on art by H.R. Giger (of ALIEN). I can't remember the titles, but I can remember bashing my head in trying to solve the puzzles.
-Some RPGs like DON'T GO ALONE, DAUGHTER OF THE SERPENT, VEIL OF DARKNESS, and ZOMBI.
-NIGHTMARE CREATURES was OK but repetitive, with those annoying "special moves" that only 6 year old boys can do easily.
- I only want to add to the RESIDENT EVIL discussion that the save-game feature sucked but I could live with it. What I can't live with is the lack of ammo that plagues your character through the series. Gimme an ammo cheat please!
-All of this rant brings me to one of my favorite and forgotten horror titles: REALMS OF THE HAUNTING. Spooky, good story, decent graphics for the time, I was completely taken in. You can probably pick this up for a few bucks somewhere.

[TobalRox]

The H.R. Giger games you're thinking of were Darkseed and Darkseed 2 (maybe he did more, but those were the two I knew). I have the first one I downloaded forever ago, but totally forgot about (it was a DOS game that didn't really run well in Win95 at the time, so I didn't really play).

People complain of the save issues of Resident Evil... I don't know if my PC copy was messed up or what, but I could save as much as I wanted, no ribbon required... I thought it was the weirdest thing since i played it on PSX and I knew you needed it. I wasn't going to complain :)

And for the new Alone in the Dark, I don't think saying that the scrolling being "jerky" is totally fair, because it's possible that if you had a higher end computer it wouldn't be. Now, I'm not saying your computer isn't high end, just maybe it was bad programming and needs a ridiculous amount for it to go smoothly... it's been known to happen. So, I can't really say it's a total fault of the game, but maybe the computer (still a major fault if it's because it needs something ridiculously powerful just to scroll). What are your specs on your PC?

[TobalRox]

ANyone ever play what i hear was the absolutely awful Pumpkinhead PC game with Roger Clinton?

[ephilman]

I have a 850MHz P3, with a G400 Max video card. I never have trouble with games. I guess I wasn't very clear. You see, the camera view, or perspective, changes as the character makes his way around a scene. The jerking comes when the game switches these perspectives. Sometimes its quick, sometimes it takes a second. The animation is smooth for as long as the view holds.

I hope that makes more sense.

By the way, the hack works, and with it you can change the default resolution (640x480).

[TobalRox]

Yeah, it definitely makes more sense now. Anyone see Alone In the Dark for GBC? Man, it's ridiculous how good it looks. I saw a review online (unfortunately, I heard it wasn't very good to play) and the screen shots I thought were a mistake showing the PSX version, but it turns out it uses the high color mode of GBC, thought it was cool. Too bad it doesn't play well though :-)

[TobalRox]

I'm here to bring this thread back from the dead :-) I just got another game for DC that might be of interest of people... it's called Zombie Revenge and it's like Die Hard Arcade (Dynamine Deka/Detective/Cop... whichever version you've played) but you fight zombies and such. It's pretty sweet when you get the shotgun and blow parts off, and it's best when you get the drill and impale them with blood flying everywhere. Think Die Hard Arcade meets House of the Dead (another great horror series). I got it from SwitcHouse for some old Master System and 32X games, so it was well worth it. There's the arcade mode, and Original Mode (Dreamcast specific mode with different options than the arcade mode), a VS. Boss mode (you pick your character and then what boss you fight, and that's it), and a Fighting mode (kind of like a 3D fighting game, but it's pretty weak since it's just the same moves from the normal game, nowhere near enough for a full-fledge fighting game. There is also a Training mode that downloads mini-games to your VMU, but since the batteries died on mine, I haven't been able to play these yet... I hear that these games unlock more stuff for the actual Dreamcast game. I just bought a new VMU, so I'll try it at some point (and i'll get batteries for my other two VMUs). Anyone else played this game? If not, go out and look for it, I'm sure you can find it cheap.

[NMA]

REsident Evil Series

And

HOUSE OF THE DEAD II, I highly RECOMMEND this latter one, shoot the zombies and grind them!

[TobalRox]

Turns out that Zombie Revenge is part of the House of the Dead universe, and that's the reason for the similarities.