Valley Of The Dead MalnaZidos Review (PlayStation 4)

by Jim Smale · May 20, 2022

This Valley Of The Dead MalnaZidos Review has us playing this survival horror game, full of action, shooting, and zombies, inspired by the hit Mediaset movie. Make your way through open levels full of secrets, play with up to 7 characters and survive this zombie plague during the Spanish Civil War.

Valley Of The Dead MalnaZidos Review Pros:

Nice cell-shaded graphics.
6.05GB download size.
Works on Playstation 5.
Invert axis and sensitivity slider.
3rd person perspective.
Zombie shooter gameplay.
Everyone speaks in their native language and we get subtitles.
Tutorial pop-ups.
Full camera control.
Zombies can drop ammo.
Collectibles to find.
Has a lot of atmosphere and tension built-in.
Different characters to unlock and play each being unique in some way.
Set pieces.
Starts off well.

Valley Of The Dead MalnaZidos Review Cons:

Clunky animation.
Drop guns when you run out of ammo.
Invisible walls.
Not the best loading times.
Horribly forced stealth mechanics.
Gunplay is slow and clumsy.
After reloading you always look straight up to the sky.
Cannot swap shoulders when aiming.
Hit detection is off.
The ally Ai don’t actually seem to do anything except blind fire and even then they must be blanks.
Can get stuck in scenery for no reason.
Hard to read the text.

Valley Of The Dead MalnaZidos:

Official website.

Developer: Gammera Nest

Publisher: Gammera Nest

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PlayStation

7/10
Graphics - 7/10
6/10
Sound - 6/10
6/10
Accessibility - 6/10
6/10
Length - 6/10
5/10
Fun Factor - 5/10

6/10

Summary

A 3rd person shooter, Valley Of The Dead MalnaZidos is one that goes for a cell-shaded graphic style and has the main nationalities of the cast use their native tongue. The only problem is this is where the game peaks for the moment you take actual control it turns into a tale of hardship, clunkiness, and miss-steps that will in turn anger, frustrate and puzzle you in equal measure. It’s a 3 Rd person shooter as I said but every gun handles badly, the reload times are so long you think the game has crashed. There are bizarre clipping and collision occurrences that stutter and break the gameplay. The zombies are slow and take a lot of shots even with headshots, if they grab you then you have a very quick window to time a push-off action otherwise you mash them off and take damage. Stamina is used for running but again doesn’t feel necessary as the levels are very narrow and small making it all a bit redundant. I just never enjoyed playing the game, the pacing the atmosphere, and the gameplay was all so lacking that it felt lower on the scale of early access games. Valley Of The Dead MalnaZidos has a cool look but everything else is bad.