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Zombie games
Hotlead Junkie
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I'm a complete sucker for the zombie/b-movie atmosphere and need more zombie themed games for the Xbox360/Wii/DS/PC/PS2. Also, feel free to discuss zombie games in genral
Zombie/B-movie games I own/have played a lot and love
- Dead Rising (Not interested in Chop till you drop at the moment)
- Left 4 Dead
- Most of the Resident Evil games
- House of the Dead 1 to 4
- Mad World (The Dungeon and courtyard levels have a great funky zombie atmosphere)
- Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick (A surprisingly fun game)
- The Timesplitters games, especially the haunted mansion in 3
- Moonwaker (Cmon, the Thriller level rocked :P)
- The Doom games
Have some interest in but on the fence
- House of the Dead Overkill (seems a bit short/lacking in replay value and I'v seen a freind play through most of it)
- Stubbs the Zombie (I know hardly anything about this)
- Dead Space (A solid game from the first 2 hours I played on hard at a freinds, but still on the fence)
Basically anything that has that great, 80's zombie movie charm, you know, atmospheric/funky music, one liners, puns, genetic abominations, horrible, horrible acting, over the top gore and so on. Now, the game suggestions don't actually need to have zombies in them or comform exactly to my specifications, but, something more like Resident Evil 2 rather than Silent Hill 2. Gameplay can be anything really, I just want more of that atmosphere you get in movies like what Romero would come out with, the Re-Animator movies, the Evil Dead movies and to a lesser extent (since I love L4D so much), 28 days later. I'm going to be running an 'All flesh must be eaten' campaign with my freinds soon so I need some more insperation to boot :P
Zombie/B-movie games I own/have played a lot and love
- Dead Rising (Not interested in Chop till you drop at the moment)
- Left 4 Dead
- Most of the Resident Evil games
- House of the Dead 1 to 4
- Mad World (The Dungeon and courtyard levels have a great funky zombie atmosphere)
- Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick (A surprisingly fun game)
- The Timesplitters games, especially the haunted mansion in 3
- Moonwaker (Cmon, the Thriller level rocked :P)
- The Doom games
Have some interest in but on the fence
- House of the Dead Overkill (seems a bit short/lacking in replay value and I'v seen a freind play through most of it)
- Stubbs the Zombie (I know hardly anything about this)
- Dead Space (A solid game from the first 2 hours I played on hard at a freinds, but still on the fence)
Basically anything that has that great, 80's zombie movie charm, you know, atmospheric/funky music, one liners, puns, genetic abominations, horrible, horrible acting, over the top gore and so on. Now, the game suggestions don't actually need to have zombies in them or comform exactly to my specifications, but, something more like Resident Evil 2 rather than Silent Hill 2. Gameplay can be anything really, I just want more of that atmosphere you get in movies like what Romero would come out with, the Re-Animator movies, the Evil Dead movies and to a lesser extent (since I love L4D so much), 28 days later. I'm going to be running an 'All flesh must be eaten' campaign with my freinds soon so I need some more insperation to boot :P
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Sounds interesting but I sold my PSP last year
Is the Boxhead that can be found online and played for free the same as the PSP version? Cause that is a good little game.
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Hell, I'd play that at work and tell my boss I'm working on improving my typing.
Other than that, this may be blasphemy but I'd like them to remake RE and RE2 with the perspective and camera of RE4. They're games that I'd love to experience but the controls just don't work for me in the view that they give me.
About the only big issue I had with the game was DRM related, but I downloaded a crack as soon as I bought it so I didn't mind so much afterwards.
It's a great game, I'd highly recommend it.
Also keep an eye out for mods for Left 4 Dead, since the SDK is coming out soon after the Survival pack next Tuesday.
I'm not saying devs shouldn't make zombie games, but if your game concept is "kill lots of zombies", your execution and presentation have to be really good.
Boxhead, as in the Flash game? Why would they only release it for PSP?
Well zombies cover a wide range of styles and behaviours, and heck, even appearances these days. They can offer up a lot of gameplay variety depending on the behaviours you give them, they can cover mass horde attacks, desperate one-on-one struggles, and everything in between. They can be melee based or have ranged attacks. You can even give them a fair amount of intelligence depending on "species".
Really, they're just an easy means to get the explanation out of the way (the player knows what zombies and zombie monsters are, everyone does). After that as you say, it's all about the execution.
Most of this is true, but you tend to forget it when you've converted half of some of the later levels into zombies and are rampaging around snacking on brains.
It may have been boring and a little annoying to play in some levels, but a couple levels were absolute gold if you like playing at being a zombie overlord.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47931.html
Evil Dead: Regeneration
Seriously, it's what you want. OK the combat isn't the best in the genre but it's definitely good enough. What you're really buying it for is for the Bruce Campbell and sidekick half-deadite Ted Raimi double act. There's more than enough cheese and one liners to give you the game you're after. The gameplay gets a bit repetitive by the end, but the terribad lines help to see it through.
Unlike most games where you get a sidekick, Regeneration neatly sidesteps having to defend him since he's already dead anyway (although there is the occasional escort scene, but generally those aren't really difficult). The devs thought up a few inventive ways to get him killed over the course of the game anyway (you can posess him at certain points), and any time you want you can simply punt Sam onto a nearby deadite (or into a spinning fanblade). This surprisingly, doesn't get old.
See review for more details:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/7629.html
EDIT: The guy playing the game in that video doesn't seem to know how to use the combo's. There's a little more to using the chainsaw than the basic 3-hit combo that's shown there.
I really enjoyed Stubbs, and it sounds like you will too. It's got a lot of humor and charm, and one of the boss battles is a Simon Says-style dance competition with the chief of police.
I mean come on.
If you can find Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddlers Green on the cheap then it might be worth your time, but I found it pretty underwhelming.
I still want a game in the vein of Return of the Living Dead.
Still, it's some good zombie killin' fun
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If you haven't played RE5 yet that's a good one, but it doesn't live up to RE4 (but really, what can?)
uhhh Zombies Ate My Neighbours is a classic
Please zombies shooters are the new WW2 shooters.
I say hallelujah!
Praise the lord that I may shoot at the reanimated dead and not WW2 Nazis!
why not both?
Zombie games are the new WW2 games and... wait
Edit - The first vid I posted was on a shitty PC running at sub 15 fps - this one is better.
Edit - Nazi fucking Zombies! Think about it!
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I would be incredibly surprised if someone has not made one.
Nazi zombies? Sounds a lot like worst case scenario
The level design also got me thinking of Episode One. That one segment with the elevator, fucking incredible.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
A game I am amazed has not been mentioned around here, what with the Urban Dead love, is Dead Frontier. It's a browser based multiplayer game, plays a bit like Diablo, what with lobbies for games. It's top down. It uses a cool system for spawning zombies based on both your "aggro" and how far you are into the city. The farther right you are into the city ( you start on the left, duh ) the harder zombies you fight, and the more noise you make, the more/harder zombies will start spawning. I played it for a while and if you can get some friends in it's really fun. It features a pretty strong player-based economy, people sell items, ammo, food they find to each other, there is no "store"
http://www.deadfrontier.com/
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Dead Space is more monsters than zombies but it does have that creepy fast-zombie 28 Days Later vibe. It's a better single-player game than RE5, in my opinion.
My friend has this and it makes his daily jogs more fun, he claims. It uses GPS to get a fix on your location (you must be outside), and you can set the number of "zombies" (red dots) on your map and also how quick they are. Then you set an end destination and try to get there without running into any.