Please Hammer Do not Damage ‘Em! That is each the identify of MC Hammer’s third studio album and the phrase somebody in Quarantine Zone: The Final Examine ought to have mentioned earlier than selling me to the title of physician and handing me a big hammer. Sadly, they didn’t, so I’m hurting ’em at each alternative.
Quarantine Zone is a first-person medical sim you have most likely been seeing clips of for months: it was an enormous hit on TikTok following its first demo, and because the full recreation launched at present on Steam you’ll be able to anticipate to see much more clips, like this one in every of me fastidiously analyzing a man earlier than clonking him on the pinnacle with a hammer.
The sim is a bit like Papers, Please with out the papers or the please: you examine survivors of the zombie apocalypse for indicators of an infection earlier than letting them into the security a army outpost, whereas additionally doing a little mild useful resource administration across the base and a little bit of pretty rote turret protection past the partitions.
You start with only a flashlight to search for indicators of a zombie virus because the survivors stagger in, one after the other. Does the topic have pink eyes? Bizarre bruises? A blatantly apparent zombie chew? If they appear a bit sick you’ll be able to ship them to quarantine to see how they fare over the following few days. In the event that they’re wholesome, they’ll cool their heels within the protected zone till you ship them out on the finish of the week. In the event that they’re contaminated, they’re marched off to a cargo container and lit up by unseen troopers. As a complete medical response to an emergency goes, it is bought some flaws.
Zombie virus signs and strategies of detection ramp up shortly, and shortly you have bought a number of instruments at your disposal. However a type of instruments is a hammer and you’ll conk survivors within the head with it as a lot as you want. Looks as if a foul selection to present to somebody like myself with poor impulse management and no medical expertise, however hey, I simply work right here.
It is a medical hammer, meant to check the reflexes of the survivors of the zombie apocalypse, but it surely’s so enormous it appears to be like like a sledgehammer from Rainbow Six Siege, and after I’ve bonked folks’s elbows and knees to check their reactions, it is unattainable to not observe it up with a bonk to the pinnacle.
They fall down. Each time. Typically I bonk them once more. It is kinda humorous. Typically in addition they hit you again, which is listed as a possible zombie virus symptom however feels to me like a totally regular response to some asshole whacking you with a hammer for no good purpose.
The opposite downside with letting me select who’s deserving of rescue is that virtually everybody in Quarantine Zone is suspicious to me. Even when they don’t seem to be coughing or wheezing or coated with zombie bites, there’s an enormous variety of folks wandering the zombie apocalypse in flip-flops. That is bizarre. I maintain discovering huge wedges of cheese in folks’s backpacks, too. The zombie plague occurred and your first thought was to seize an enormous hunk of cheese and put your flip-flops on? Into quarantine with you, then.
Then there’s this man.
Yeah, a teeny bit suspicious. If you wish to bonk some potential zombies with an enormous hammer your self, Quarantine Zone: The Final Examine is out on Steam now, and it is even 10% off for the following couple weeks.
