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Bite Me: A Look At Zombies In Video Games

April 22, 2009 in Blog comments 9

OXCGN's new writer steps in and takes a look at Zombies in games. Why they are there and how do they survive . .

An interesting and lighthearted look at the beast that many fear in games, or simply add fodder to a game for the sake of it. Step over and check out her first work.

I lay no claim to bravery; quite the opposite in fact. I’m more than likely to have a yellow belly and a boneless back. I hide when it’s stormy, and jump when someone says boo while I’m playing Dead Space with the speakers turned up.

I will say this though; I love me a good zombie.

Whether I’m watching the latest Romero flick, reading poorly written stories of the undead online or kicking back with a shotgun and laying waste to a few choice Hunters in Left 4 Dead, I love a good stumbling, bumbling, and flesh eating ghoulie.

But something has been bothering me about my decrepit friends as of late.
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    tekmosis Apr 23, 09
    I think that lately the definition of a Zombie is being skewered. Dead Space did not have Zombies, they weren't the living dead, they were mutations caused by an alien microbe. Then there's "infected" that's not necessarily a Zombie, either.
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      XboxOZ360 Apr 24, 09
      Well that means the Zombies in Res Evil 5 aren't zombies at all, simply The Infected . . which brings us back full circle . . hehehe
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    Seeker X Apr 23, 09
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    It would appear that zombies, on a whole, still retain at least a few of their baser instincts. The most obvious of these is that they need to feed.
    What a revelation...to those that never watched the first Resident Evil movie.

    There's plenty of "explanations" for their way of being. That one is why they eat, they don't need nourishment since their bodies are basically dead, so their digestive system does not work (The Zombie Survival Guide). George Romero's zombies eat ANYTHING, as there's a scene of 2 zombies fighting to eat a rat in Night of the Living Dead.

    So yeah, there's no universal explanation for what they do or what they are, just the next thing that sounds reasonable. On a side note: L4D's zombie is the saddest type there is.
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      pooOBKp Apr 24, 09
      I like L4D's infected though. It's fun to have 30 burst out of a door and surround you, maybe not scary, but still extremely tough.
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        Seeker X Apr 24, 09
        They're carbon copies of 28 Days Later's infected without the scary parts. I would've personally preferred L4D's swarming enemies with Mirror's Edge's FPV running gameplay, at least it would've been a better way to rip off 28 Days.
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          pooOBKp Apr 25, 09
          Being like 28 Days Later's zombies was exactly what makes them so cool though. But as everyone constantly argues on here, everyone has their own opinion and I will let you have yours, as I will have my own.
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    Dragoshi1 Apr 23, 09
    Where oh where did our zombies go?...

    The only good zombies shown recently were NAZI ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!!
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      tekmosis Apr 24, 09
      I think you're forgetting Left 4 Dead :0
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        Dragoshi1 Apr 24, 09
        Them are not zombies, them are INFECTED

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