If there’s one thing that most people would agree on, especially if said people are mobile gamers, it’s that we don’t need more zombie survival games. There are as many varieties as there are takes on the undead, so coming up with something unique is hard. Good thing Infectonator 3: Apocalypse ($4.99) is almost the complete opposite, as your goal is to make sure zombies overrun the entire world. And while playing as the zombies has also been done before, Infectonator 3 presents it as a blend of strategy, action and humor that I’ve never seen tried in quite this way, which gets it an ‘A’ for effort right off the bat.
The basics aren’t hard to grasp thanks to the tutorial. Every level starts with the goal of killing as many humans as possible before you run out of zombies, which is easier than you might think because every member of your undead horde is only around for a limited time before they fall apart ? the kind of logic that a ton of victims would have liked to have seen in horror movies. You start the downfall of each region by tapping and infecting one poor soul with the zombie virus, after which he or she does the expected thing and goes around trying to eat the brains of others. Part of the fun early on is watching the behavior and dialogue of the humans, as they seem to know they’re in danger but don’t exactly grasp the severity of the situation. Each level ends when either all the humans or zombies are de...