Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare DLC Review

I was hooked on Red Dead Redemption from the start. The beautiful scenery and polite townsfolk made me feel welcome, and not to forget the friendly animals in the wild. Yet when I downloaded the new DLC ‘Undead Nightmare' I found my beautiful scenery covered in blood and left to burn, the once polite townsfolk, deciding I was nothing more than a mere snack to them. Even the lovely animals of the wild decided to chase and hunt me. Something was definitely up. Of course, it was zombie time!

Yes you heard right, Rockstar games decided to take a leap in to the ever growing and popular setting of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse'. Taking this leap is one of our favorite games ‘Red Dead Redemption.' You see yourself as good ol'John Marston, travelling back to your home only to find your beloved wife and son have turned into flesh eating zombies, leaving you with only one choice - tie them up and leave them in a bedroom with some steaks for snacks. Then you begin a campaign of cleansing towns of the infection hopefully bringing you closer to a cure.

It's every man and woman for themselves in a zombie apocalypse, and the only thing worth fighting over is ammo, which explains the lack of cash in the economy. Such desperate times also call for desperate measures, and thankfully your actions are no longer measured by an honour meter, so do what you want -- kill survivors and swipe their ammo or work in tandem with them. It's completely up to you. The intention of ‘Undead Nightmare' is to play around and have fun in a giant ludicrous sandbox world, not to make you feel guilty over murdering someone for a few bullets.

The DLC includes a campaign and also a new online game mode called ‘Undead Overun'. This puts you and three other players in a variety of locations (all conveniently near a graveyard) fighting wave after wave of the undead. Be aware though, ammo will be scarce and the only chance of survival is working together and opening coffins that spawn after each wave for precious ammo. Some of you may be thinking ‘slow moving zombies, hardly a challenge is it?' but that's where you'd be wrong. Joining the undead army are several special infected, they run low and fast and are not afraid to plough into you, some are even able to spit acid, corrosive to your flesh. And lastly of course, what would a zombie horde be without a big muscle type? They will chase you and knock you down, completely original, right?

One of the new things available in the campaign is the infamous four horsemen of the apocalypse and the introduction of mythical creatures into the wilderness, such as the legendary Sasquatch! That's pretty cool, right? I don't know about you guys but i intend to spend a lot of time hunting Bigfoot, oh yeah and of course avoiding the flesh being torn from my body...