Dead Block is a strategy developed by Candygun Games, released 6 July 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dead Block is
Dead Block is a strategy game developed by Candygun Games and released in 2011. It was published by Digital Reality. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the ‘50s Rock’n’Roll music was spawned straight from hell and was so evil that it turned dead people into Zombies! Three survivors - Jack Foster, a construction worker, Foxy Jones, a traffic warden, and Mike Bacon, a perpetually hungry boy scout - have formed an unlikely alliance to protect themselves from the invading undead. Hiding from the Zombies in abandoned buildings, they build blockades, set traps and – as a last resort – use weapons to fight.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
How it was received
Dead Block holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dead Block launched on 6 July 2011, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Bastion, F.E.A.R. 3 and Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Bastion, F.E.A.R. 3, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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