Pick-Your-Own-Adventure meets Dungeons & Dragons in today’s Amazon Free App of the Day: Fighting Fantasy: Blood of the Zombies (4/5 stars, guidance suggested). From Amazon:
Fighting Fantasy, the world famous interactive gamebook series returns for its 30th Anniversary! Ian Livingstone and Tin Man Games present Blood of the Zombies!!
“Insane megalomaniac Gingrich Yurr is preparing to unleash an army of monstrous zombies upon the world. He must be stopped and his undead horde defeated. In this life-or-death adventure the decisions YOU make will decide the fate of the world. Can YOU survive or will YOU become a zombie too?”
Blood of the Zombies is a digital Fighting Fantasy gamebook, an interactive adventure in which YOU are the hero! You can only win through by choosing the correct path, finding equipment, avoiding traps and surviving combat.
“…it’s surprisingly swift and exciting, with the hectic, minute-to-minute battling and health management beats of Left 4 Dead, and a real sense of the old-school RPG as you keep neat lists of the things you’ve collected…” – EUROGAMER 9/10
• All new death endings, written by Ian Livingstone. Not available in the print book!
• Kevin Crossley’s amazing illustrations colorised for the app, making full use of the high-resolution retina displays.
• Alternate artwork to unlock by Fighting Fantasy favourite, Martin McKenna.
• Make the gamebook as easy or hard as you like and even turn on a special cheat mode to read it old-school!
• An automated Adventure Sheet to keep track of stats and inventory.
• Realistic physics based dice rolling. Shake your Android device!
• Artwork gallery. Find an illustration in the gamebook and be able to access it full-screen forever.
• Bookmarking system which saves your position in the gamebook, much like putting your fingers between the pages to remember your previous page when reading the paperback!
• Specially composed soundtrack and sound effects.
One Amazon reviewer says:
“I never really heard of Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy novels. I just ran across this on Google Play one day and was instantly immersed. This is a text based adventure with some RPG elements thrown in. Think of this as a pick-your-own-adventure with dice. Thankfully the game handles most of the tedious work for you like keeping track of items, stamina, and other stats. The story is really intriguing because of how mysterious the whole setting is. You play as a man who is captured and taken to some secluded castle. You later find out people are being turned into zombies to become part of some crazy guy’s personal army. These aren’t just regular zombies and are a bit smart as you will find out along the story.”
Other well-reviewed titles available in the Gamebook Adventure series include:
Fighting Fantasy: Forest of Doom (4/5 stars, guidance suggested, currently priced at $5.99)
Gamebook Adventures 1: An Assassin in Orlandes (4.5/5 stars, guidance suggested, currently priced at $5.99)
Gamebook Adventures 3: Slaves of Rema (4.5/5 stars, guidance suggested, currently priced at $5.99)
Gamebook Adventures 5: Catacombs of the Undercity (5/5 stars, guidance suggested, currently priced at $5.99)