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INTRODUCTION (From Relevovideogames.com):

Finally, Ned and Linda can enjoy a little time together. After an amazing day, in which their institute club has obtained for the fourth time in a row the Science Olympiad 1st award, the happy couple can at least relax in the city cliff, looking at a great star-filled night sky. But the happiness will not last as much as they expected…

Suddenly, a thunderbolt felt from the sky and hit Ned’s car. When Ned managed to react, he saw a horrible image: a huge evil shadow had fallen over the city and kidnapped Linda. With an evil laugh, the demonic entity slipped through the windows of the school, taking his girlfriend inside and plunging the city into chaos and darkness. Ned, still stunned by the lightning strike, believed that the end was near for all…

But when the evil forces rise over the good ones, the moon cast its spell on the hero, the chosen one, the one designed to save us all. And the moon threw its power beam on Ned, he felt strange and full of power again! Now, with his new powers, he will start his quest to save to save his girlfriend and destroy the Evil One. Are you brave enough to face your destiny?

REVIEW:

When the game starts there is an intro sequence telling pretty much the same history as the above introduction text, and this is accompanied by nice graphics and a good soundtrack! Back in the days there was two great arcade games named Ghost’n Goblins and the sequel Ghouls’n Ghosts, and they were also great games on most of the systems they were ported to. I wrote “most” because the ZX Spectrum versions were very poor. Invasion of the Zombie Monsters is heavily inspired by these games, and shows that if the ZX Spectrum is programmed correctly it can easily run such games.

This is a platform game with five levels and it features new enemies in every level and a boss fight on each level. Your weapon is a magical projectile of moonlight power and it can be upgraded four times. The power ups you collect to upgrade your weapon is constantly changing between weapon upgrade, weapon downgrade, weapon reset, a nuke bomb that kills everything on the screen, and a time bonus, so you have to choose what you want. The power ups is dropped by dead enemies and dead enemies is also dropping coins you have to collect to receive extra lives.

The soundtracks in this game is very special, it is not something you will sit down and listen to, but they are very good for this game. It is clearly that they are made especially for a game with graveyard levels and zombies.

If you are into the Ghost’n Goblins / Ghouls’n Ghosts genre you should play this game instead. Invasion of the Zombie Monsters offers what the other two does not: A full color scrolling screen without color clash and in-game soundtracks! The gameplay is somewhere between not too hard and not too easy, which means that it plays very well and has good and responsive controls.

It is a great game with intro sequence, five levels with different soundtracks, boss fights and an ending sequence, and a fine Ghosts'n Goblins clone.

Rating = 92%

The game is made by Relevo Video Games in 2010.

Download here: http://www.relevovideogames.com/invasion-of-the-zombie-monsters/