Download Lowdown: Undead Nightmare

NOTE: The benefit of online connectivity to modern game systems has been the ability of developers to deliver new content for existing games quickly, reliably, and affordably. Download Lowdown will be a look at some of that content, from free add-ons to whole new experiences on familiar games. I'll begin this new feature as I did my regular review suite, with a DLC pack for Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption...

As I wrote this article on Thanksgiving morning, thinking of the tasty dinner I anticipated with a ravenous group of like-minded individuals, I couldn't help but think of zombies. Does that make me weird? Probably, but who doesn't have zombies on the brain as of late? They're everywhere: comics books, movies, TV shows (The Walking Dead was one of the highest rated cable shows of the fall), and definitely video games. The Resident Evil series popularized them, Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising brought them to this console generation, but it's Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare that just may have given us the most unique and engaging zombie experience you'll find this side of the actual zombie apocalypse. Who would've thought that zombies and Westerns would be such a match made in gaming heaven?

(Well, Jon Favreau maybe, but he threw aliens in instead. Go figure.)

John Marston, not one for speechifying