Flesh Feast (PC)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 2.0 stars Mediocre
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 4.9 (2.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Michael Ryan
• Reviewed on: 08/04/1998
• Updated on: 05/01/2000
• Released on: 06/30/1998
• Originally published on GameSpot: Flesh Feast (PC) Review

If you're a horror fan, you might think that a game featuring a horde of hungry zombies, a vast arsenal of anti-zombie weaponry, and a 3D graphics engine couldn't possibly be bad. Well, you'd be wrong. SegaSoft's Flesh Feast offers all of these things and more, but despite a few positive points, the game is about as lifeless as the zombies it hurls into your path.

Flesh Feast is a third-person action game viewed primarily from a top-down perspective, similar to Mageslayer and Take No Prisoners. The game includes 14 levels in which you must lead three teams of humans through a vast army of zombies, who trudge along after you and rise up unexpectedly from the ground. Apparently, something has gone horribly awry at the island headquarters owned by Nutrition Applied Science and Technology Inc. (NASAT), where people are mysteriously dying and returning to life as zombies. Your three teams must stop these creatures and put an end to the crisis.

The basic game design is simplistic but with a pretty good difficulty stepping built into the framework. The levels are split up into three sectors with each one being the responsibility of a different team. Also, each sector represents a level of difficulty, so you can gradually build up to the final level by making your way through each sector in order (which is not required). Starting out in a graveyard, an airport, and a dockyard, you'll eventually hack and blast your way through a variety of locales, including a mall, a hotel, a laboratory, and of course, the NASAT factory, which seems to be the root of all this rampant evil.

You begin each level with a team of three humans, one main character and two others. How you are supposed to keep all of them alive is a mystery. In fact, there doesn't seem to be much point in trying, as the game is one hell of a lot easier if you sacrifice the supporting cast and concentrate on arming your main characters to the gills. Weapons, ammo, and the occasional power-up can be found lying all over the level maps, and you can home in on them using the game's radar display.

The game provides two methods for controlling your characters: strategic or direct. In strategic mode, you point to a location or a zombie, and your character will move or attack. This mode, like the concept of team survival, does not seem to have much purpose in the game. Direct mode, where you control every move and action yourself using the keyboard, is much more effective for getting anything done. If nothing else, your characters fight like a bunch of inept wimps in strategic mode.

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