Undead Nightmare Review

I recently played through Undead Nightmare, the first major single-player expansion to 2010's amazing Red Dead Redemption. I own the Xbox 360 version.

As where RDR was a very solid action-western adventure with a first-rate narrative, Undead Nightmare is a campy romp with the uncomfortably fun scenario of "zombies in the Wild West."

The narrative is 100% B-movie material, and luckily, never takes itself seriously. I enjoyed blasting zombies in the head (necessary to effectively take them down), which makes Dead Eye aiming extremely crucial - even more so than in RDR. A couple of new weapons add spice to the usual arsenal, a few new types of missions are welcome, but overall there is far less to do between missions than I was expecting. Towns routinely need saved from zombie hoards, which amount to simply killing every shambling beast in the area. There are a few rare items and horses to collect, a few types of stranger missions to partake in, but beyond that, this is simply more RDR with a funnier coating.

With tongue firmly in cheek, Rockstar creates an addition to RDR that is a worthwhile single-player experience, even if it is a bit more shallow than the game its built from. Still, this is how a $10 expansion to a game should play.

B3 out.