History time! Gather around, kids. Back in the late ‘90s, SEGA had a wild idea: “Let’s do PC games!” Enter SegaSoft, their short-lived PC-specific label – an attempt to convince PC gamers that SEGA wasn’t just about blue hedgehogs and arcade cabinets. Among their releases was
Flesh Feast for Windows 95.
Now, you’re probably thinking, “Oh cool, a zombie survival horror game like
Resident Evil?!” Well, not exactly. SEGA said, “Let’s take survival horror and mash it up with real-time tactics… kind of.” In practice, this is a zombie apocalypse where you’re managing a squad
and wrestling with a control scheme so clunky, it feels like a mini-boss.
Here’s the setup: you control one main character directly via arrow keys (because WASD was apparently too futuristic), while issuing orders to “helpers” in strategic mode. Switching modes requires slamming the <Enter> key. Sound intuitive? Well, it’s not.
The controls are so convoluted they make your keyboard feel like a Sudoku puzzle. By contrast, RTT games like
Myth and
Commandos knew what was up: point, click, done. Meanwhile, Flesh Feast asks you to juggle two control scheme like a circus act.
That said, it’s not all bad! Scavenging for gear and unloading a satisfying barrage of bullets into a horde of zombies? Catharsis incarnate. The big maps are a joy to explore – airports, graveyards, you name it.
The graphics? Pure low-poly, 1998 jank. Back then, we called it “3D” with reverence, but today it’s more “3D, and we really need the quotation marks”. As for the pre-rendered cutscenes, they’re campy, over-the-top nonsense – a good laugh.
The sound is… well, let’s just say it’s unique.There’s no music, so it’s eerily quiet, except for the zombies. And when you beat them up, they sound oddly… pleased. Like, disturbingly pleased. They’re practically begging for whips and chains.
Ingames Interactive developed this game, then promptly vanished into the void like a one-hit-wonder band that didn’t even score a hit.
Generally, I love SEGA. I really do. But Flesh Feast? Can’t recommend it. The game has its moments of fun, sure, but those controls? They’ll haunt you more than the zombies. Flesh Feast is an amusing little relic, but it’s just not worth playing. This one should stay in the past.
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