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If you're like me you're sitting here listening to your favorite St. Germain album and wondering where all the Halloween games are. Me, too! Luckily MumboJumbo has reskinned their Elf Bowling franchise into another fun-filled bowling romp.
In Zombie Bowl-O-Rama, you're finishing up a night at the local bowling alley when all of a sudden zombies start climbing through the floorboards! Business suit zombies, punk zombies, construction worker zombies, letterman jacket high school student zombies, eyeball juggling zombies, and more! It seems a horrible green slime-spewing meteor has hit the local cemetery, and it's up to you (and maybe another player) to bowl your way across town and plug the hole in the graveyard before the zombies overwhelm the town. It's Maniac Mansion meets Return of the Living Dead with plenty of horror movie references for film fans.
Don't let the opening heavy metal theme scare you away - this is another great family bowling game from MumboJumbo. The zombies are more cartoon fun than scary, and when they do bleed it's just green meteor slime, not blood.
You can play either with the computer or with a friend or family member. The game follows your typical (ten-pin) bowling rules: ten frames, spares, strikes, etc. Except instead of pins, you're bowling at zombies. At the start of each frame, ten zombies clamber onto the end of the lane and stand in formation. Using the mouse (left to right), you control the initial position of your bowling ball, and then hold down the mouse button to determine how much power to place on the throw. Once you release the button, the ball sails down the lane toward the zombies! Until it either hits them or veers into the gutter, you have some control over its path with the mouse. Zombies you knock over will flail around like ragdolls or bounce into zombies behind them, sort of like bowling pins. But not really.
After your two throws, if any zombies are left standing (i.e. you failed to make a spare or a strike) the "survivors" move down the lane toward you. They remain on the lane, perhaps blocking the view during the next player's throw - however any balls that pass through them will instantly vaporize them (without affecting the momentum of the ball).
Spinning gravestones sometimes appear at random along the lane. If you can direct your bowling ball to pass through one, you'll get a bonus "trick" or "treat" to either ruin an opponent's throw or aid yours, respectively. You can store up to five of each type for future use.
Green treat bonuses are used before your turn to give you some sort of help. These include a fireball which slams your magma-propelled ball into the zombies, a beehive coating for your ball which makes bees swarm upon and sting zombies (without even a direct hit), a pinball mode which allows you to bounce your ball off zombies multiple times until they're all down for the count, and so on. My absolute favorite, and worth the download alone, is the disco ball. A giant disco ball appears above the ten zombies and they huddle into a tight disco dance formation, making them much easier to strike. It's stupid and funny - my favorite combination!
Red trick bonuses are used before your opponent's turn. These include a giant werewolf which pulls your ball toward the gutter, a spinning sawblade which slices your ball in half, extremely annoying barricades which slow your ball to a halt, and the wonderful cabbageball... which turns your ball into an ineffective head of cabbage. (Imagine throwing a cabbage as hard as you can at a group of bystanders. How many could you possible knock down? One at the most?)
One cool bonus is the 3X Zombie-Nator. Using this will either activate three random treats at once. Or force your opponent to deal with three random tricks at once, often making his or her chance at even knocking down a single zombie a challenge. Hint: always, always, always try to get the 3X bonus when you see its gravestone appear on the lane!
There are plenty of trophies to unlock, a free play mode, lots of amusing bonuses, and the crude but fun zombie animations and ability to screw over your opponent make Zombie Bowl-O-Rama a very enjoyable two player time-waster. Professional bowlers might be frustrated that the focus is more on using bonuses than planning careful shots. In the lanes I played, there wasn't even a back wall to knock against for the inevitable seven ten split. In other words, don't use physics. Use bees!
P.S. There's no time to spare when zombies strike! (Am I a genius or what?)
this game is so fuunny and the dancing hillarious
I had so much fun playing this game.
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