Shi No Numa

(which i got THE DAY it came out btw)

AAAhhh, new maps. Don't we all love them. First it was Nacht Dur Untotem, then Verrukt, and then those became the used tissues of SHI NO NUMA.

What's probably the most unique about Shi No Numa is a few things:
1. MORE ZOMBIE ACCESS The zombies are no longer coming from an outside world whose only entrance into yours is a slow peeling away through windows. No. It's up close and personal! You run through farm-area-like swamplands--and they're right behind you. That's right-you're outside the building now.
2. MULTIPLE TIMES LARGER Upstairs, Downstairs, Inside, Outside, Fishing Hut, Comm Room, Doctor's Quarters, Storage, and more! Oh, and not to mention the...
3. GADGETS Zipline. Enough said. Oh, did you know the zombies jump off after you? Yeah. Really.
4. CHARACTERS The American, and my personal favorite: Dempsey. The Asian with an accent an obvious english speaking person fakes: Takeo. The blood crazy German: Nikolai. The everything crazy Russian: Richtofer. No more anonymous players, each is one of the four characters.
5. SPIRIT WOLVES!!!!!!!! Both my brother and I screamed the first time we saw these. So unexpected, so loud, these hordes of glowing wolves appear in a crack of lightning around round 5 after a lispy voice yells 'Fetch me their soulsss'. Forget the Zombies for this inbetween round fight. You'd better have opened accross or downstairs by now and gotten a real gun from the mystery box or you'll need a good revive'in.
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Alright. So you've got your headset on and feel pretty confident with also headset-equipped Killah666, whom sounds like a nine year old, and DarkNight, with a voice deep enough to crack any second, and SilentTimmy, who you hope will be okay with the rest of you being able to communicate while he lacks the set to. Everyone synchronizes, and boom there you are with your handgun and full power of Dempsey. You sprint to the nearest window and headshot a couple of toddling jungle zombies. Dempsey empowers you with sayings like 'Augh! I think his skull just hit next week!' and 'Damn, that was a good shot', and the like. What a powerful American.
Round four hits and you and DarkNight have decided you'd all better get some guns before the wolfies come a'fetchin. SilentTimmy has the most points so you all gather around and rudely knife him until he opens downstairs and you all beat him to the box.
'Fetch me their soulsss' echoes out you all huddle in the corner behind the mystery box with your machine guns and that one annoying guy who always has a flamethrower. Ya thanks SilentTimmy, now we all can't see what we're shooting.
Killah666 lets out a prepubescant scream at his first wolf. Turns out-surprise- this is his first time playing. Three bites and he's down, waiting for that nice stab in the neck with an oversized reviving needle. But you can't help. You're too busy knifing SilentTimmy's flaming wolves while nicely waiting for him to reload so you can do so too. DarkNight's got it under control and you all gussy up and run off for more zombie heads.
But OH NO you got TEDDY BEAR!! 'Look for the Light' the drawing above the box says. Well you know what that means and rush into the courtyard to spin around until a light shoots up into the sky from the box's new location. 'Fucking Teddy Bear. Oh I know you're laughing at ME.' Dempsey chips in. So American.
DarkNight grates out the new box location and you all once again prod SilentTimmy into opening it. How is it whoever doesn't have the headset gets picked on? Who cares. Cause it's not you. :)



AAAnyway. It's amazing and you need to play it.