BrainZ

Genre: First-Person Shooter

Players: 1

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Review:

BrainZ is a First-Person Shooter released on Nintendo Switch in 2020, challenging players to survive as they blast their way through wave after wave of zombies while getting supplies air dropped to them between waves.

With a description like that, this sounds like it might at least be a decent action-focused game. However, it quickly becomes apparent that this game is as deep as a puddle.

Enemies amble straight toward you, with some being faster, some able to tank more hits, but none really offering anything truly different to contend with. Shooting them is not at all challenging, since this game uses an extremely pronounced auto-aim. In fact, the auto-aim is so overdone that you’ll find yourself having difficulty turning away from enemies to make sure you’re not being surrounded.

The presentation here is bizarre, and seems oddly cobbled-together and incomplete. The city locales you fight in look decent enough, though not particularly special. However, the somewhat realistic-looking locales clash strongly against the cartoonish-looking zombies, which look like rejects from one of the 3D Plants Vs. Zombies games. What’s more, there is no music, and the only sounds are your walking sounds (even while you’re jumping) and gunshot noises – the zombies themselves are silent, and you don’t even hear anything when you take damage.

In short, BrainZ is an incomplete mess of a game, with parts that don’t match, gameplay that’s too simple and yet still struggling with issues, and an overall experience that you will grow weary of within minutes. Do not buy this game.

tl;dr – BrainZ is a First-Person Shooter that has players taking on waves of zombies, but it struggles with simple gameplay, control issues, a mismatched presentation, incomplete sound design, and an overall experience you’ll want to abandon within minutes of playing. Skip this one.

Grade: D

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