Zombie Blast Crew

Genre: 2-Stick Shooter

Players: 1

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Review:

Zombie Blast Crew, originally released on mobile devices in 2019 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2020, is a 2-Stick Shooter that has players… well, blasting away zombies. So at least two–thirds of the name is spot-on (though I’m not sure about the “crew” part, as this is a single-player experience).

The visuals here are very rudimentary, with simple low-poly 3D graphics and a mostly fixed isometric perspective. This is accompanied by an extremely forgettable energetic soundtrack. Suffice it to say, there is nothing memorable about the way this game looks or sounds.

Sadly, the same is true of the gameplay – Zombie Blast Crew does very little to shake up or vary its experience. Players can blast away with their gatling gun, toss a grenade, deploy a stationary turret, or use a health pack, and that’s about it. Most levels are fairly linear, though they may have tasks to complete along the way (along the lines of “stand in this circle for a short while to complete a task” or “kill all the zombies in this area”).

If that were all there was to say, this would be a completely forgettable, but not outright bad, game. Unfortunately, enemies can be bullet sponges, which means you’ll be running around in circles as they chase you and you pick away at their health, making for some tedious gameplay. What’s more, your gun keeps shooting well after you release the trigger, and reloading happens often and takes far too long for a dumb action game like this. In addition, the action is broken up into pretty small levels, meaning that the pacing is constantly getting interrupted by those level breaks.

In the end, I don’t think Zombie Blast Crew is a terrible game, but it is a painfully mediocre one. Given that the Nintendo Switch is full to the brim with great 2-Stick Shooters, I see little reason that anyone should bother with this one.

tl;dr – Zombie Blast Crew is a 2-Stick Shooter where you shoot zombies, and not much else. It’s every bit as mediocre and forgettable as it sounds, and with so many other great 2-Stick Shooters on the Nintendo Switch, there’s no reason to play this one.

Grade: C-

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