Like "watching" a radio play, this suffers from the dialogue being more necessary than usual and much more so than the visuals because subtlety of facial expression is so far not possible with current (2008) CGI technology. This makes facial close-ups rather pointless and so we have no recourse but to focus on the zombie horror plot regarding the source of the causative infection: Terrorism or deliberate US government biological-weapons' policy - or both. Inevitably, the technological lack also means that characterization is limited and the story and plotting somewhat trite - despite the implied-yet-unexplored incest theme.
Nevertheless, this is handsomely mounted and good violent fun - even for those uninterested in the computer games' origins of the work. Despite the marionettes-without-strings visual appearance, the Japanese have used their anime expertise to fashion an enjoyably lightweight entertainment.
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