Welcome to the quick start guide for Zombie Swipeout, an arcade-style game for mobile devices. You will be swiping you machete across zombies while deftly trying to avoid hitting Joey or your game will be over.
The argument against cloning is a muddled one. While some games are flagrant in their mimicry of other works, others merely toe the line and leave people debating whether or not they're shameless copies. Zombie Swipeout fromZynga falls into the latter camp, offering a style of gameplay that's reminiscent - but not wholly derivative - of App Store titan Fruit Ninja. Not to mention the whole zombie thing. That's certainly different.
If there's anyone you'd trust to make a great zombie game, it's a pair of doctors involved in genome research. That's who's behind The Game Doctors - the indie mobile studio that brought the world Zombie Smash back in 2010. Now a part of the Zynga team, the doctors are following up their castle defense classic with something a little more slash-happy.