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TimeWasters: Infector: World Dominator
By Chris Gampat On 19 Feb, 2010 At 12:40 AM | Categorized As Strategy, TimeWasters | With 1 Comment

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TimeWasters  highlights many of the excellent Web-based/lightweight downloadable titles that you can dive into within the space of a lunch break. This week, Chris Gampat explores Infector: World Dominator.

I have seen the end of the world, and it has zombies. In fact, Infector: World Dominator is literally all about zombies taking over town after town, and country after country. It’s not a simple game, but a couple of clicks with a mouse allows you to really lay siege to the entire world. Plan it all out carefully as you’ll really need it later on.

The premise of the game is that you’re a virus that is infecting the world and turning them into zombies. You need to spread and kill off the human population in each town. Each town requires you to kill off a certain amount of people and collect money as well. Ultimately, you want to kill the entire population if you can.

After you’re finish with the level, you go to a news screen reporting what happened and showing your results. After this, you can choose to upgrade your stats using the on/off switch in the bottom right hand corner.

There are loads of upgrades: amounts of times you can spread the virus, inter-spreading, attack, speed, and more. Additionally, you can upgrade your special infected that you get along the way. The Tank is just like the Tank in Left 4 Dead 2. MJ is Michael Jackson who comes out and dances with his zombies and then ravages the population. Santa Boomer is identical to the boomer in Left 4 Dead. Col is Colonel Sanders who drops infected chickens that attack people in swarms. McD is Ronald McDonald who drops infected burgers. And Venom is received after you defeat Spider Man in NYC: he shoots webbing at people which paralyzes them.

Later on in the levels, the people start fighting back and sometimes even the military, special agents, and special forces come in to take on the infection. This gets really hard as you need to divide and conquer fast and also swarm your opposition.

That’s the problem them: the zombies run around mindlessly. I can’t tell you how many times I could’ve beat the game if only they just attacked this one person walking around on the other size of the map. Instead the zombies basically just went around in their own little corner before dying (yes, they have a limited amount of time that they stay alive.)

The music is nothing really epic, but takes you back to that old school 8-bit days. If you remember Zombies Ate My Neighbors then you’ll feel right at home with this.

The graphics are very, very 8-bit and the whole experience is top down like in a real-time strategy game. You can actually think of it that way because the people move around often in the level and you have to try to figure out where to place your viruses and special infected in order to maximize the spread.

If you’re a zombie lover or just some maniacal person that plots of taking over the world from their cubicle, this is a rightous game for you to check out.

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About - Chris Gampat’s love of video games started when he was a wee lad and played Golden Axe on his PC. Since then, he has played Counter Strike Source and Condition Zero professionally. These days, he enjoys games with endless re-playability and time wasters to help quick spurts of time pass by. Chris has worked for the blogs at the PCMag Network, Magnum Photos, Times Square Chronicle, Geek.com and others. He has had formal training in writing, photography and videography. Despite the craze over games like Guitar Hero, Chris firmly believes that nothing will replace the feel of his Fender Jazz Bass in his hands. You can read his professional photo musings at The Phoblographer.

  • Jacob

    The Menu Screen

    In most games this is where you get a few option to choose from. Like Play, Control, and Credits and those kinds of things, But not Infectinator You can see Zombies chasing civillans and soldiers fighting the zombies. When a zombie gets a person it kills the person and leaves lots of money. Put your mouse over the coins to collect it. That money will now count as starting money you will have in the game. Once i started of with $3000.

    When you get bored just press “Start Infecting!” Which begins the tutorial.

    The Tutorial

    Make Sure you collect the money the women drop when they die, this also counts as money for the actaul game! Here you can also see the money you’ve made from the Menu screen. Now, just follow the Tutorial Instructions, learn how to play and brace yourself for the REAL game.

    Also please note that the zombies die eventaully on their own and that not all of the humans who get infected with the zombies virus will turn into Zombies, they may just die.

    DAY 1

    Here you must kill 6 People. There are only 10 people there so this will be easy. But you may not get it on your first go.

    After a level or if all the zombies die screen will come up asking you what you want to upgrade. Here are your options:

    THE UPGRADES

    LifeSpan: The zombies already start with a 5 second lifespan…. If you fully upgrade this it can get to 10 seconds, it’s a waste of money.

    Speed: The Zombies beginning speed is a mere 30. But you can get it up to 120 if you fully upgrade it , which is crazy fast. I would seriously recomend this.

    DMG Resistance: The Zombies HP starts with 200 (ONE SHOT ONE KILL WITH ANY GUN!!) But if fully upgraded, it can reach 1100HP, which is seriously needed against soldiers, Men in Black and commando’s, as for the cops, not so much…

    Attack: Pretty much pointless, Only upgrade this a little bit, Men in Black take a tiny bit more time but Commando’s take a while to bring down as they have lot’s of HP…

    Infection Chance: This is really important! You start with a 30% Chance the virus will spread to the dead human and turn them into a zombie, But if fully upgraded it can become an 80% Chance!!

    WHAT TO UPGRADE

    First Priority: Speed
    Second Priortiy: Damage Resistance
    Third Priortiy: Infection Chance
    Fourth Priortiy: Lifespan
    LAST Priority: Attack

    DAY 7:

    Meet the Cops. This is why you needed all that DMG Resistance. Also say hello to Cars, your new best friend for the moment, if a cops fires at the car by accident
    (Which ussaully happens) Lot’s of Coins will come out.

    DAY 9:

    Say hello to the Army Soldiers, those Cops needed Back-up!
    This level may be hard but stick with it. On this level your probably going to earn The Gold Digger III achievements, which rewards you with a bonus $100,000!!

    Now, use the money wisely now. Upgrade the Money collecting radius until it’s maxed (should cost you $12,000). Then Upgrade the Virus Will Be Able To Penetrate Walls for $10,000

    Now, you know what i said about Priority remember? Increase the Speed to the MAX!! If you’ve been following my Priority beofore this should cost about $80,0000′ish

    Then Increase the DMG resistance until you can’t any more, then spend the left overs on Infection Chance. Then spend the leftover money of the Infection Chance on the Lifespan… And then if you have ANY money left over spend it on Attack. And for some reason if you still have like $2000 – $4000 Left then spend it on Virus Spread and maybe even 1 Grenade if you want.

    Your STATS should look something like this:

    LEVEL 11:

    Welcome to “The Men in Black”. These guys can’t be infected by the orginal virus you make.

    LEVEL 12:

    Here come the Commando’s!! Same goes with the MIB for the virus thing. These guys also drop a ton of money (around $2000 each i would say)

    LEVEL 13/b] Well, i made it to Day 13. You only get 60 Seconds of gameplay you know. There are only 13 Levels so i died on the last level.

    MONEY ACHIEVEMENTS!:[b]

    MASS MURDERER I : $5,000 Reward ( Kill 25 )
    MASS MURDERER II: $10,000 Reward ( Kill 50 )
    MASS MURDERER III: $20,000 Reward ( Kill 100 )

    DEATH TO HEROES: $20,000 Reward ( Kill 1 Heroe )

    GOLD DIGGER I: $10,000 Reward ( Collect 10K )
    GOLD DIGGER II: $50,000 Reward ( Collect 50K )
    GOD DIGGER III: $100,000 Reward ( Collect 100K )

    INFECT: $10,000 Reward ( Infect 50 )
    INFECTOR: $20,000 Reward ( Infect 100 )
    INFECTINATOR!: $50,000 Reward ( Infect 200 )