Dead Nation (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dead Nation

Dead Nation is a top-down shoot 'em up video game for PlayStation 3 developed by Finnish video game developer Housemarque. It was released on November 30, 2010 in North America, and December 1 in Europe…

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What Dead Nation is

Dead Nation is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Housemarque and released in 2010. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3. It runs on Havok.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dead Nation takes place in a fictional world afflicted by a zombie apocalypse. The player can play as a male or female character and fight different types of zombies. Players fight their way through ten levels, using weapon shops that allow weapon upgrading and armor swapping. During the levels, players can find boxes that hold ammunition, multipliers, money, or armor pieces, and also loot cars trunks for money. If a car is blown up before being looted, though, the loot is lost. At times the players are trapped in areas where they must survive until they have accomplished a certain goal (i.e.: wait for an elevator while fighting zombies or kill all zombies in the area).

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

How it was received

Dead Nation holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Dead Nation launched on 30 November 2010, within three weeks of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Cheats and codes

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