Battlefield 3 vs Zombieville USA 2

We've had a long weekend here in Perth, Australia, and I haven't spent my free time playing the $90 Battlefield 3 game, no...

I have spent it playing a $0.99 App Store game for the Ipod Touch and iPhone called Zombieville USA 2.

Over the last couple of days, I've hardly touched Battlefield 3. I was close to having finished the campaign, but came up against a showstopper bug that literally would not let me proceed.

The train sequence at the start of the game is something you will actually go through again later on, and like many of the sequences in the game, it's full of annoying quicktime events. Something happens, usually a melee struggle with a terrorist, and at the prompt, you have to press the right key at the right time. If you're not on time, or you accidentally let loose with another key, you die, and have to start the section over.

Anyway, this event required my pressing the space bar (as prompted), at which point my character would then die. This happened over... and over... and over again. When I think about it, my own personal Groundhog Day.

I couldn't even figure it out by googling it, and the last time it happened, I was so frustrated with the game, I forced it down with Alt+Ctrl+Del.

That's when you know I'm not happy.

It's ironic sometimes, though, how things happen, because I ended up browsing the Ipod App Store once again, and noticed the sequel to one of my old favs, Zombieville USA, had been released.

$0.99 later, I was ready to rock and roll, and I'll be damned, but it has occupied my time so much more than Battlefield 3 was. It's got a number of different levels to fight in, zombie types to slay, and weapons and skills to both unlock, and level up.

Great, great game, and at the price, an absolute steal. Battlefield 3 at $90? Not so much.

As it turns out, however, I once again googled the problem preventing my ability to continue in the Battlefield 3 campaign, and this time, actually found the solution. Yes, apparently if you have rebound your jump key to something other than the space bar, you have to press both that key AND the space bar.

Once again, some great game testing going on over there at DICE.

It's academic really, because like most of the campaign, the bit that I had left to do was utter rubbish.