I’ll give the developers at Blendo Games credit, I haven’t seen an Anti-Zombie game with a focus on the strategic elements quite like this before:

There’s a new zombie game out now on PC, Mac and Linux – but its unlike any other zombie game on the market. Atom Zombie Smasher is a new strategy game from developer Blendo Games, makers of Flotilla. Atom Zombie Smasher is a strategy game that gives players an overview of a section of a city overrun by zombies. Players must select an evacuation zone and then protect it from zombies as they try to rescue a certain number of civilians per map.

There’s an overall map at play as well, so you’ll need to pick and choose your strategy as to which cities you save and when – choosing one over the other could result in multiple other cities being overrun. You’ll have numerous abilities at your disposal like artillery, dynamite, soldiers and others to try to defend an escape route for your civilians to the helicopter. It’s a bit like tower defense though it’s faster paced. The environments are also totally destructible which adds a unique twist to the usual pre-defined paths.

I suppose it was inevitable that the games would drift in this direction eventually, what with the popularity of World War Z turning the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ into a ‘War on Zombies’ in the minds of many horror nerds, but I admit I didn’t see it coming, at least not this soon.

I wonder if we’ll see a resurgence in strategy games on the PC, all now infused with Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute. I have many fond memories of Alpha Centauri for the PC, and I shudder to think of the modern, Anti-Zombie equivalent that could come out if this trend picks up.

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