#deadeffect

2023-01-18

Jan 19, 2023 - Day 19 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 25

Game: Dead Effect

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Dec 18, 2014
Library Date: Nov 24, 2017
Unplayed: 1882 days (5y1m26d)
Playtime: 20m

Dead Effect is billed as an "Indie sci-fi zombie shooter".

It is all of these things.

This was probably an impressive indie game for 2014, but 9 years later, it has a lot to compete with.

It started out OK; you can choose the gender of the protagonist, and so Jane Frey punched her way out of stasis. Unfortunately, this was where the game peaked.

I'm not big on zombie games. The odds are stacked against you, as you fight off hordes of various types of undead; this is OK, if you feel like you've got a chance. This did not feel like I had a chance, even on "easy" mode.

I fought my way through the barrage of zombies on the first level, but surviving the dreadful voice acting feels like the true achievement. To call the protagonist wooden would be an insult to wood.

There are datapads hidden throughout the levels to collect, and the third datapad provides Frey's backstory, even mentioning that her breasts are real. I love the smell of casual misogyny in the morning.

At level's end, you get a Doom-like level status screen, and on to level two.

The voice acting in the second level was somehow worse; by the time I got mobbed, I was happy to die. RIP, Jane Frey.

My rating for Dead Effect is a big old:

1: Nope

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