{"id":3538,"date":"2006-02-21T22:16:21","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T05:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=3538"},"modified":"2006-02-21T22:16:21","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T05:16:21","slug":"zombie-vs-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=3538","title":{"rendered":"Zombie VS Ambulance!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n\nI was reading the latest issue of Famitsu<\/a> (which, by the way, has a pretty awesome preview of Siren 2<\/a>) when I ran across a crazy game called The Zombie VS Ambulance<\/i><\/b> (THEVS). This is SIMPLE2000 game, which means its a budget title by D3 publishing (retail in Japan is about $18, which is ultra cheap considering most new games are in the $70 range). D3 has made horror-themed games in the past, including the awful-looking Onechannbara<\/i> (a stupid play on “onechan,” meaning “young girl” and “chanbara,” meaning “sword fight”) and The Noroi Game<\/i> (lit. “The Cursed Game”).<\/p>\n

So I did a little research on The Zombie VS Ambulance, because I just couldn’t get over the idea that somebody made a game about zombies fighting ambulances. There’s an official site for the game<\/a> which has some tiny screen shots, but the most interesting information comes from this guy’s blog about the SIMPLE series<\/a> (man, and I thought my blog was niche). I translated a couple of snippets from his review:<\/p>\n

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The basic formula is leave the hospital -> run over some zombies and help some people -> return to the hospital, repeated over and over. But the need to run zombies over to win keeps the tension level high, so I think the system works pretty well.<\/p>\n

First of all, there’s a “hospital health gauge.” As you drive around the gauge is slowly depleted, and if it ever goes to zero it means the hospital has succumbed to the zombies and it’s game over. It’s basically a life bar for the hospital. In order to fill the gauge back up, you have two options:<\/p>\n