Review: Zombie Gunship Arcade
Flappy Gunship Zombie Shooting
Zombie Gunship Arcade – previously announced as an April Fools joke, then subsequently revealed to be a real game – is now available for all your side-scrolling zombie shooting needs!
Gameplay in Zombie Gunship Arcade is fairly straightforward. This game is part of the wave of Flappy-Bird-Inspired arcade games. That means difficult, reflex-based timing with one-button gameplay. For Zombie Gunship Arcade, that means tapping the button to fire your guns and elevate your ship, mowing down waves of zombies beneath you, and attempting to avoid shooting the innocent humans below.
While this gameplay seems superficially easy at first, you’ll quickly realize how false that is. Firing your gun to elevate your ship high enough, while at the same time not hitting the human characters below, requires timing and precision just as delicate as avoiding walls in Flappy Bird.
As a Flappy Bird style reflex-based arcade game, you pretty much know what you’re getting with Zombie Gunship Arcade. The use of humans on the ground instead of walls in the air provides some welcome variety to the genre, but if you’ve long ago burned out on everything Flappy, it’s unlikely this game will change your mind. However, Zombie Gunship Arcade is polished, fun, and free to download. If it seems entertaining to you, there’s nothing to lose by giving it a try.
Editor’s Note:
Zombie Gunship Arcade also has the distinction of being the 300th game with MFi controller support! Perhaps it’s fitting that a Flappy-Bird-style game should get that honor…