Lollipop Chainsaw
Lollipop Chainsaw is the 'un-deadly' story of sweet and killer zombie hunter Juliet Starling and her quest to uncover the root of a colossal zombie outbreak. With her wickedly awesome chainsaw in hand, Juliet…
Lollipop Chainsaw is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, released 12 June 2012 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Lollipop Chainsaw is
Lollipop Chainsaw is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and released in 2012. It was published by Kadokawa Games. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On Juliet Starling's (voiced by Tara Strong in English and Eri Kitamura/Yōko Hikasa in Japanese) 18th birthday, she goes to San Romero High School park to meet her boyfriend, Nick Carlyle (voiced by Michael Rosenbaum in English and Kenichi Suzumura in Japanese) who is going to meet her family for the first time. Unfortunately, a zombie outbreak has occurred, which leads to Juliet fighting off hordes of Undead on her way to meet Nick. When she arrives, she discovers Nick fighting off a zombie which was trying to eat her, and so Nick is bitten in her place. Realizing he will become a zombie, Juliet decides she must decapitate him to save him. When he comes to, Nick discovers he is somehow…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lollipop Chainsaw holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 38% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 82 votes.
What it launched against
Lollipop Chainsaw launched on 12 June 2012, within three weeks of Persona 4 Golden, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Spec Ops: The Line and Pokémon Black Version 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Persona 4 Golden, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Spec Ops: The Line, Pokémon Black Version 2.
Cheats and codes
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