Let’s face it. With movies ranging from 28 Days Later to Pirates of the Caribbean and TV shows like The Walking Dead, it’s quite clear the world has itself a case of zombie-mania. In the realm of gaming, the Japanese have contributed to this as much as anywhere else with game series like Resident Evil, Dead Rising, and House of the Dead, just to name a few. But these are far from the only Japanese games that feature zombies.
I play a lot of video games. But I don’t play a lot of video games that force me to go outside and run around my neighbourhood.
Zombies, man. Everyone loves killing zombies. Marine Sergeant Jacob Way,22, is betting that video game players love killing zombies enough to make room in their libraries for one more zombie-slaying simulator.
The cast of Red Dead Redemption are no strangers to rednecks, nor to zombies — Rockstar’s wild-west open world game featured plenty of the former in its original incarnation, and added an invasion of the latter added to the game via downloadable content.
Ken Silverman was definitely on to something with that voxel stuff. The man was batty about them before they were big and now, everyone’s getting in on the action. The latest is this upcoming Xbox Live Indie Games title called, simply, Block Zombies.
For some odd reason Wipeout 2048 lead designer Karl Jones and game director Stuart Tilley decided it was a good idea to explain in detail just how cool the futuristic PlayStation Vita racer was before they scrapped the terror-inducing Zombie secret game mode.
Call of Duty: Zombies was a hit on the iPhone, a simplified port of the popular “Nazi Zombies” game from Call of Duty: World at War — players fight to defend a building from increasingly difficult waves of advancing undead. It was a fairly humble iOS first-person shooter, but it had a strong brand behind it, was fun, featured halfway decent FPS touch controls, and even gave players the ability to team up online with up to three friends.
You might think you’re ready for a zombie uprising, but I bet you’re wrong. Sure, you’ve got the survival guides, the canned goods, the power generator, water and concrete slab shelter. But do you have a crate or two of Hornady’s Zombie Max bullets? No? Well then you’re screwed.
Yes, zombies are sometimes overplayed. There are zombie books, zombie snacks, zombie plushies, games and movies.
