There’s the one guy who keeps following you around the room and meleeing you in the face, as though you’ve somehow personally offended him. Everyone’s favourite characters make an appearance during this brief, time-honoured tradition of waiting for the game to start.
#RUSH TEAM ZOMBIE MODE MOD#
Pandemic Express feels rough-edged, goofy and unhinged, like that one really simple zombie mod for Counter-Strike: Source that gave the enemy AI knives, and had them swarm around the map with a singular mind to hunt you down and stab you to ribbons.Įach round begins with the humans holed up in a waterlogged depot somewhere on the map, with a three minute warm-up timer ticking down to the fateful moment when one of them becomes an infected zombie player and the others must either run or hide to avoid being turned themselves. It’s a thirty-player game of online zombie tag set in what appears to be an eastern European ghost town, and played mostly by (as far as I can ascertain from my time with the early access version) one untethered Russian teenager who flies into a primal rage when the zombies successfully stop the train. Zombies can respawn forever, and dead humans turn into zombies, so games last until either everybody is a zombie or at least one human has made it out of the map with their precious humanity intact. The zombies, who all resemble horrible goblins who’ve crept out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting, are out to stop them, using their fangs and claws to monch and clonch the humans to death. The humans, who all resemble French mimes in plague masks, are attempting to board and pilot a train to freedom. Pandemic Express is a game about a bunch of humans escaping a bunch of zombies. This week Steve sinks his teeth into Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape.
Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access.
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