Dead Effect Review

What's up people, I'm Boo, posting my very first review of an Android game! It's time for Dead Effect. Read, relax and enjoy!

 Dead Effect is and FPS-action game with elements of survival horror. By that I mean that it is a scary-ish type of game, however to complete it, all you got to do is shoot your way through.

 Dead Effect was created and developed by inDev Brain and published by Bulkypix. It was released in September 2013 and by now you can get it on the Play Store for free.

The story behind Dead Effect is very simple and short, and the whole game is based on it, with not so many surprises. Basically you are in the ESS Meridian, an spaceship chosen to be rebuilt as the first long range military/scientific starship, is traveling through space with a new FTL technology, headed for its destination - to colonize Tau Ceti f - the first planet in the history of mankind. Few months later, a crew member (you) is disrupted from a cryogenic sleep, to find out that the rest of the crew is eager to eat people and looking like this dude:

Not someone you'd be willing to hang out with, that's for sure!

 After that your character decides that the best thing to do is find the communication hub, where you get in contact with an scientist that survived called Doctor Wagner, through your suit communication system and he start guiding you through out the ship. And that's pretty much it for the story, there's a big twist after the middle of the game, but I'll let you find out what it is.

Dead Effect brings to you an alright variation on enemies, 5 or 6 I believe, which don't vary in any aspect apart from the way they look. There's 3 bigger zombies, which also don't change much, apart from one of them that spits blood on you from far away, the other two just hit you harder the the normal zombies and can take more damage. The way they all walk is a bit weird, but the way the attack looks flawless. For a couple times you are going to face Razor, a zombie that the inDev Brain guys describe like this:

                                         So I guess that's it, say no more!

You can expect Dead Effect to be hard and to frustrate you a couple of times, as the game offer you no checkpoints. Yes! each time you die you;ll need to go back to the beginning of the stage. If you die you have the option to buy an revive with real money, but as long as you have patience that's not needed.

Meet  Gunnar Davir, and
Jane Frey. Cool guys, on a cool suit, holding guns.














Right before you start the game you can choose between one of then, they are exactly the same, and have the same story. Basically they’re well trained soldiers that were recruited to be on the ESS Meridian, and that's all the information given. Playing with them are both the same as well. The main difference between them is the way they were dubbed. Jane's voice and the way she speaks gives you the tense, serious and scared type of feeling, while Gunner for many times during the game sounded like and bad stand up comedy artist, I couldn't quite figure out if that was just bad dubbing or if they meant it, if they did mean it, it just didn't work.
The characters receive different weapons, Gunner gets a pistol and an assault rifle, while Jane gets an revolver and an shotgun. You can buy other weapons that are waaaay expensive. (as they want you to spend you real money). They cost $47.000 for the cheaper and $580.000 for the most expensive, and you get between £20.000 and $40.000 per mission. Note that the cheap weapons are worthless as they wont be better then the ones you already have, and you NEED to upgrade the ones you have in order to succeed on the next level, and upgrades are expensive. You can also buy ammo, but as long as you look well, you won't need that. Basically what you expect on a play-for-free game

Dead Effect run on the Unity engine, the same for games like Dead Trigger 2 and Call of duty: Strike Team. As usual in games that uses Unity, the graphics on Dead Effect are just beautiful, sadly they made the ESS Meridian an spaceship without windows, so there's no point where you just stop a while to look at the stars and planets, like you would on Dead Space. The enemies, the guns, the character's hand and the blood flying around when you explode an zombie head, it all looks jut flawless. You still see things the deserved a bit more effort, like light reflection for exemple, sometimes the light iscoming from you right, but the it's shining on the left side of the gun, or some boxes looking better then others. But nothing much, it still look fantastic.

The controls are not so great, sometimes they are really unresponsive and can frustrate you easily. You have to option to go on the menu and choose the Free Pad option, which will let you slide your finger on the direction you want to walk, instead of needing to press a touch d-pad, in my case, that made it good enough to play the game.

Overall Dead Effect is a great game, specially being free to play, with an campaign that lasts a bit more then 3 hours, it you surely guarantee you a good amount of fun, as you can also play the survive mode, which is really cool.
Definitely give it a try, you won't regret it.

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