Visit a tattoo parlour for a dose of magic power (and possibly hepatitis). The messages don’t add much to the game in truth, other than providing a little more information about the special moves you purchase. You can also accumulate cash, items and followers by scanning environmental QR codes with your phone, as well as reading emails which are sent periodically. Cash is collected by smashing stuff up and killing certain enemies, but if you’re too cheap to buy goodies from the various shops dotted around, you can collect it from enemies who drop loot of varying rarity. There’s a surprising amount of depth on show, for what is ostensibly a button-masher. More importantly, your avatar will reflect the apparel you choose for them so if you want to don a Leatherhead mask, a grandma sweater and a pair of bear paws, this is exactly what you’ll see on screen. Crackling energy attacks and rainbow punches can be granted if you wear the right gloves or attach the correct accessory. Pick a certain power, and you can team up with another player to form a powerful mech.Your wardrobe is equally important, since clothing bestows differing levels of protection and power to its wearer. Each has a limited use before being destroyed, but it is very satisfying to emulate an 80s action hero by unloading a clip from an SMG into a shambling corpse, hearing the click as the ammo is spent and chucking the empty gun at the enemy’s head to finish it off. Shopping trolleys, baguettes, nail guns, severed arms and gas canisters are all fair game on the weapon front. If you ever wanted to stomp on a zombie’s head, pick the brain out of its carcass and hurl it at an oncoming foe, Charlie Murder will cater for you. For a beat ‘em up, the variety and inventiveness of the environmental items on offer is impressive.
For instance, the shaman can impale the heads of defeated enemies on spikes in order to grant health to any friendly player nearby, whilst the tank can spew out a host of guns for players to collect and unleash havoc. Just your average night out in a Swindon bar.Chi attacks can be purchased in the form of tattoos from a friendly ink parlour, and the resulting choices mapped to the D-pad. These include increased damage with two-handed weapons, a bigger inventory and unique combo moves such as Heart Rip, which grants you extra health by letting you munch on your opponent’s organ after some impromptu surgery. In a postmodern twist, Twitter followers take the place of experience points and levelling up offers you an increase in Strength, Speed, Defense and Anar-Chi (magic damage/lower cooldown period), as well as a skill point to add to one of a number of enhancements. The main differences in the characters can be found in the various skill trees and bonus moves that you will acquire as you progress. The tank is a huge guy (think a death metal Hagar in Final Fight) whilst Charlie himself is a bizarre blend of anime school-kid and Iggy Pop. Charlie is a berserker, whilst other classes include mage, tank, shaman and mesmer. Each band member has an RPG-style class type and they all look the part, thanks in part to the lovely hand-drawn graphics.
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The game runs very smoothly, using full horizontal and vertical movement – more Castle Crashers, less Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara. As musical tiffs go, it makes the Gallagher brothers’ feud look positively civilised. Cruelly brushed aside by Charlie after being promised a formative role, Paul takes the only option left open to him – he makes a deal with a demon and summons forth hordes of the living dead. The hand-drawn art is wonderfully realised.Mixing side-scrolling beat ‘em up and RPG elements, you and your friends take on the roles of the members of death metal band Charlie Murder, and must wade through hundreds of zombies, ninjas and grotesque bosses in order to rid the world of their evil leader, ex-bandmate Paul.
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The team behind The Dishwasher series have rehashed the formula for their latest outing, resulting in a game which isn’t that far removed from its predecessor, but a fun blast nonetheless. To call Charlie Murder “eclectic” would be akin to saying Skyrim’s world was “rather large” or that Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons “wasn’t particularly great”. For Those About To Beat Up Zombies (We Salute You)
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