Shoot them as they're coming out of the ground; that takes only one shot. If they're standing up, you'll need two to kill the thin zombies and three to kill the big ones. It takes more bullets to bring them down as the levels advance. Pay attention to your chamber and don't wait to reload.

Happy shootin', pardner.

Either can I. Why don't the bullets work? They ripped off my arm before I could reload.

Just aim (with the mouse) and click to shoot. Some (OK, most) require more than one shot. Zombies freshly rising from the earth are easy to take down. When you find the shotgun, you can change weapons by hitting the shift key. Happy hunting.

What a FUCKING COOL GAME!

Already on 53/stage 6, but I can't switch to the shotgun.

still not dead

Yeah, anyone know how to switch weapons?

Switching to the shotgun KILLED ME!!!! the reload's not quick enough and the barrel's too long

I can't reload fast enough to save my ass. The worst part was when they impaled me with my own arm, or was it when they grabbed my head and yanked it off with the spine attached? How about a D&D link instead. I can't go back in there...

That kid has real talent. He's a good artist

check out the video section and the nutcracker animation. Real, real clever and talented.

good luck, you bum.

damn shotgun is too slow....great timewaster though

I believe that pressing the shift button will change weapons.

Level 8 / 69

Level 9/82

too many, too fast by that point

Hit shift to switch to the shotgun. High score 239.

even better is the link to Lovecraft's "reanimator" short stories.

If the movie was as good as the stories, I would have been estatic.

So we both went down the stairs on tiptoe, with a fear partly justified and partly that which comes only from the soul of the weird small hours. The rattling continued, growing somewhat louder. When we reached the door I cautiously unbolted it and threw it open, and as the moon streamed revealingly down on the form silhouetted there, West did a peculiar thing. Despite the obvious danger of attracting notice and bringing down on our heads the dreaded police investigation – a thing which after all was mercifully averted by the relative isolation of our cottage – my friend suddenly, excitedly, and unnecessarily emptied all six chambers of his revolver into the nocturnal visitor.

That visitor was neither Italian nor policeman. Looming hideously against the spectral moon was a gigantic misshapen thing not to be imagined save in nightmares – a glassy-eyed, ink-black apparition nearly on all fours, covered with bits of mould, leaves, and vines, foul with caked blood, and having between its glistening teeth a snow-white, terrible, cylindrical object terminating in a tiny hand.

I hit level 13 or 14 before they piled onto me.

Shotgun works best when they get about 3/4-1/2 way across the screen. Use the pistol to drop the ones coming out of the ground. If you have 3 shots or less left and the coast looks clear, empty the gun and reload. If you shoot some of the zombies in the legs they'll fall over and you can execute them gang-land style while they are on their knees.

And go for body shots. Head and leg shots don't knock them back as far. saves you precious seconds.

Your best killing options with your revolver are:

Big Guys - 3 shots in the head

Little guys with visible spine - Head and spine

Other little guys - haven't figured out the best tactics yet

Keep your shotgun loaded....

Stage 10, 100 is my best score.

THen i got my head ripped off

11/121

ok, back to work

not exactly complicated. left click to shoot. left click to reload. shift to change weapons.

do not operate heavy machinery.

TAB+SPACE is a cheat - automatic targeting and simulates a shotgun firing

If it helps, I put together a few tips after my first day playing it.

D'oh!

Here's that tip link, if I can make it work.

lvl 16, beat that!

It's not hard, but a few tips:

--Use mouse cursor to aim and left click to fire.

--Try to shoot the zombies before they stand fully upright; it only takes one shot. When they do stand up and start walking towards you, it will take two or three (or more) rounds to stop them.

--Shift button will allow you to toggle between pistol and shotgun. Best to stick with the pistol, especially if the zombies get too close to you; the shotgun takes too long to reload.

--Remember Rule #1 about zombie hunting: head shots!!! Also, spine or pelvic shots work for the harder-to-kill zombies. Three rounds to the head work for the big guys (assuming you don't catch them while coming out of the grave).

I've spent about 30 minutes playing this fun timewaster, and made it to Level 13 and 150 successfully-deanimated zombies before one of the big guys pulled off my gun arm and beat me to a pulp with it. Jonah Goldberg over at NRO (which is where I found De-Animator) was right: this little game is macabre, literary, fun and addictive. Make sure you don't have anything that needs doing urgently before you try it.

Huh.

So *this* gets a link?

I must remember that-- zombies + Lovecraft = link from Ace.

Time to get crackin' on the Google.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

P.S. As always, mucho gracias.

212...

I don't know what level that is but I got 212 with no cheating.

I rule

After several tries I got level 9 / 83. My 7 year old son sees me playing and wants to give it a try. His first effort gets level 13 / 153.

Damn. Level 16, 216. No cheating, neither.

Aim for the feet. It knocks the fast zombies to the ground, slows 'em down. Shotgun s*cks.

3/39 before I just closed the window. I don't have time for that one right now. I love the fact it's a big old .455 Webley, I have three of the things.

Thanks for the hint on the shotgun swap.

Shoot the skinny bastards in the feet. Once they hit the ground shoot once to kill. Hit the big bastards thrice in the hips. And for God sake, don't forget to reload. Don't waste time with the shottie. Takes to long to reload.
Level 12
130
Fookin zombies.
Victory is mine.

The shotgun is a big advantage on the big ones, small disadvantage on the smaller ones.

Level 18, 256. What a great timewaster! I love the atmosphere in that game.

I've found that it very quickly becomes essential to tag the big zombies as they're coming out of the ground. Toward the end when they're taking 4 pistol shots to kill, every shot has to count. Inevitably what kills you on the later levels is getting too "behind" on big zombies to the point where you just can't get enough lead in the air to stop them. I may have to experiment with the shotgun to see if I can squeeze out any more progress.

Anyone know if this thing ever ends? I don't see myself getting much further than I did.