Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Developer: Dream On Studio
Genre: First Person Shooter
ESRB: M for Mature
Players: 1-2
Platform: Nintendo DS
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Introduction

Zombie killing, you either love it or hate it, and with the release of “Touch the Dead” for the Nintendo DS... well let's just say I wanted to eat my own brains! You could say that Touch the Dead is similar to Sega’s House of the Dead, but actually the only similarity besides the obvious point of killing zombies, is that the game has an “on rails” type of game-play. This means that the entire game takes you where you need to go, so there are no movement controls for the player to use, all you have to worry about is making sure the undead become re-dead. It’s a no brainer!

Background

You begin the game and are shown that you are a wrongly convicted murderer named Rob Steiner. Out of nowhere you find yourself out of your cell and moving into a room where a pistol is sitting on the ground awaiting the zombie carnage that is to follow. Immediately after you pick up the weapon, the game takes you into another part of the prison and your zombie massacre begins. The game contains very little to no story about your character Rob and follows a strict line of pure zombie destruction through four chapters of gameplay before you finish the game, with a total of about 4-5 hours of you life that you cannot get back even if you traded in the game at Gamestop.