The basic actions in the game only consisted of either hitting a short series of keys or occasionally strumming a small score, which was used mostly in larger fight scenes or boss battles, but was occasionally thrown in the main story to jumble things up a bit. The game travels through different parts of the Trailer park, Sewers and quite a few other levels as you continue to battle crystal laden zombies, and many other creatures, including flying crystal
bats, flying beetle bugs, evil leech worms and eventually work your way to the bosses of each level.
The voice of Neal Patrick Harris was used as the main character and is very good at coming up with laughable one liners, and reacting to put downs from other characters, that’ll keep a smile on your face and take away from some of the repetitiveness of just strumming color coded notes.
Felicia Day provides the romance in the game as the main character’s love interest “Mary Beth”, and the game’s script was handled by Anne Toole, one of the lead writers of The Witcher, so it has got some higher calibre talent to add to the fun gameplay experience. The end bosses are pretty entertaining as well, giving you a highlight of each level, while also giving you that sense of accomplishment at the end of each level.
Rock of the Dead bosses will rock you
The bosses include a giant pissed off lobster who tries to whack you with his claws as well as spit green goop at your face. The next boss battle I enjoyed thoroughly was a Trailer park Constructicon (for those that aren’t familiar with the Transformers reference and don’t know, that’s a robot built out of smaller robots, in this case, trailer park homes), this part of the game just kept me and my friend in side-splitting laughter, between Neal Patrick Harris’ comments, and our own mimicry, it was definitely a highlight of the review.
I don’t want to ruin too much and give away all the boss battles, as I’m sure those that desire some good living room antics and feel the need to dust of their console guitar and drum peripherals, will want to have some fun and surprised of their own. I will finish off the boss battle discussion stating that Rob Zombie himself is a hidden boss battle within the game.