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Game Review: Lock and Load

    Hey, everyone. This game by Chillingo is free at the moment and it is a real hoot. I downloaded it night before last and I have played it a lot. The graphics are very good, the colors are bright and the controls are fine. What's more, the game is really different.
    I hate horror movies, so it is a wonder that I like this game so much, because that is what this game is all about. It features horror movie villains, or their clones, as the enemies in the game and another bad guy, with a hockey mask, as your avatar.
    Let's call the chief warrior Jason, shall we? He starts out with a machine gun and nearly unlimited ammo. Shortly thereafter you buy a shotgun. There are upgrades to get, health potions to buy with in-game cash and ammo crates to pick up. Chillingo doesn't pressure you to spend money, however. You can have a ton of fun for free. I definitely intend to buy something because the game is so good and I don't want to freeload.
    Let's talk about the gameplay. I think that someone did a great job writing this. It is different, funny and cool. At the start Jason is hanging out at home, doing whatever serial killers do in their spare time. Then this spooky little girl starts creating her own army of ghouls and monsters. When they get too rowdy, out in the street, Jason goes out to calm them down. Things go south from there.
    Heck, there are all sorts of bad stuff to deal with. Pumpkins that explode. Garbage cans that attack you. There are scarecrows in corn fields that throw their coats open and release vicious crows that menace you.
    As you pass a graveyard, ghouls come running out to get you. There are robed guys with those freaky masks on. They have swords too. Later, a bigger version of them, about ten feet tall, shows up and you had better have a shotgun by then.
    It was cool when I happened  upon a cute little Granny in a wheelchair. She wanted me to purge her house of some spooky vermin. Of course, I was down with that. When my health bar got low, she baked me some cookies. Then she outfitted her wheelchair with dual machine guns and wreaked havoc on the heathen.
     I forgot to mention that the freaky little ghost girl had a huge, pink octopus in a swimming pool. I had to break out my shotgun on that bad boy. If he stuck a tentacle out of the water, I blasted it. The octopus only had one eye to start with and his personality seemed to suffer because of that. It took about 40 shells to make him behave and send him to Davy Jone's Locker.
   Run, don't walk, to your friendly neighborhood app store and get this bizarre game.
    I'm CE Wills.
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