Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green

This is our first game review on ZAC, and probably one of the few that I will do personally. I hope to find a resident video game guru to review all the latest zombie games.


Road to Fiddler's Green is based on George Romero's Land of the Dead, but takes place before the movie. Your character is a rural farmer who finds a stranger on his property and naturally decides to shoot him in the head. From there the plot is fairly straightforward. It's one redneck farmer with whatever weapons he can find against an unending horde of zombies. However, once you make your way through a zombie infested city and arrive in safe territory, your troubles have only begun. You are hired to clear a high-rise apartment building of the zombie infestation, floor by floor.

I found the game very satisfying. You can play it through on easy, if you're a lightweight like me, or go at it on hard and be literally mobbed by zombies. Either way, the decent (if a little dated) graphics and creepy soundtrack are as adrenaline inspiring as the scariest zombie movie. You use more than once sense to play, as zombies will often moan as they come at you, and every footstep in the dark could be one of them. This game will suck you so far into its zombie plagued reality that your skin will crawl even after you've stopped playing.

Still, don't expect the latest game with bleeding edge graphics and radical gameplay. The style of play is the same thing they've been making since Doom, with your group of weapons arranged along the number keys. There are a limited number of zombie body types, so they do start to repeat after a while, but the ones they have are realistic and fairly gory. The envirement is creepy, dirty, dark, and authentic.

So, if you've ever wanted to star in a Romero movie, this is your opportunity. The game's a few years old, so you might have trouble finding it, but, on the plus side, it might be pretty cheap. It's definitely worth it.