Infected PlayStation Portable

Infected PlayStation Portable

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 23, 2006 | 4 out of 4 found this Infected review helpful

Pros: Fast-paced zombie-killing action; innovative and ambitious online component; solid frame rate.

Cons: Humor is hit-and-miss; single-player game is far too short; multiplayer game is just no fun.

Infected takes place in New York City, two weeks before Christmas. As the game opens, you watch as the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is interrupted by a small band of zombies, who are quick to pluck everything from limbs to intern...al organs from the living, be they stately city officials or young boys in wheelchairs. You'll notice right away that the overall tone in Infected is darkly irreverent. There are some genuinely clever moments in the game--such as a one-sided conversation between your commissioner and the prime minister of Japan--and the regular lampooning of Christmas-driven consumerism and the nature of NYC tourism are a bit more insightful than you would expect from a zombie murder simulation. Often, though, the comic timing is off, or simply misguided, for instance turning a sequence where a developmentally challenged child is mistaken for a zombie from grimly humorous to just awkward. Read more Less