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What the f**K is with all the Zombies?


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Knyte
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PostPosted: Oct 25 2008 11:40 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I read this at Destructoid:

Destructoid.com wrote:
Many have bemoaned the fact that yet another World War II shooter is on the horizon. But what if a new WWII shooter had zombies in it? That's exactly what World at War developer Treyarch was thinking. In the latest episode of GameTrailers TV Treyarch unveiled a cooperative zombie survival mode that stands outside the central game, but will be available in multiplayer.
The mode will consist of four players fighting against infinite waves of Nazi undead. The point is simple survival. Players will be awarded money to buy weapons from crates as they tear through zombie hordes and have the ability to buy objects like wood and sofas to barricade a central structure on the map.

Zombies will be able to tear down barricades gradually, so it appears to be of the players’ best interest to stick together and buy things at the appropriate time. There also appears to be some sort of revive mechanic present in the mode, but it wasn’t explained. Players will have to complete the campaign in World at War to unlock the zombie mode.
Unlocking it is a very small price to pay for something that sounds entirely too cool. What do you guys think? Are you ready to start blowing off body parts in the name of survival?


How many more zombies are going to appear in games over the next few months?

Resident Evil 5 is due soon.

Left 4 Dead is coming out in few weeks. (Which IS a zombie game.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_Dead)

Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is coming out for Wii.

Dead Island is in development. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Island)

Grand Theft Auto 4 is having a zombie DLC. (http://www.destructoid.com/zombie-infection-hits-gta-iv-as-the-dead-stalk-liberty-city-108928.phtml)

What's next? A sercret Zombie team in Madden?

George A. Romero's Mushroom Kingdom of The Dead?

When did zombies become trendy?
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PostPosted: Oct 25 2008 11:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The COD : WoW Zombie Survial mode is a pretty cool idea, but I see where your coming from and I agree. There is just way to many fucking Zombie games coming out.
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PostPosted: Oct 25 2008 11:56 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I'm hyped for Left 4 Dead myself.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 12:14 am Reply with quote Back to top

Super Mario Zombie. Where you die, you really don't. You can eat Goombas and Koopa Troopas to survive.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 12:19 am Reply with quote Back to top

Ghandi wrote:
Super Mario Zombie. Where you die, you really don't. You can eat Goombas and Koopa Troopas to survive.

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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 04:27 am Reply with quote Back to top

Why you gotta be so prejudice against zombies?


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 04:41 am Reply with quote Back to top

WoW has that zombie mode now. and that city of champions will have a zombie mode too according to 1up.com.

i think its mostly cause of halloween. but then again, they could just make it werewolves or killer tomatoes


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 10:56 am Reply with quote Back to top

It's a hidden warning about the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse when hell is full the dead shall walk the earth, the video game companies know the truth and want to make sure you're prepared to shoot as many zombies in the head as humanly possible. Nod



 
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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 12:07 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Meh, shooting. I'd take a machete and put on Let The Bodies Hit The Floor in the background.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 01:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Your name is gay.
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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 01:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

sidewaydriver wrote:
Why you gotta be so prejudice against zombies?


zombies are people too, you racist.


but anyways, zombies arent' trendy, they're fun.

I'm more annyoed that every FPS that comes out either has to take place in world war 2, iraq, or outer fucking space.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 01:54 pm Reply with quote Back to top

FNJ wrote:
sidewaydriver wrote:
Why you gotta be so prejudice against zombies?


zombies are people too, you racist.


but anyways, zombies arent' trendy, they're fun.

I'm more annyoed that every FPS that comes out either has to take place in world war 2, iraq, or outer fucking space.


I agree with you on the WWII part, but name adleast 3 video games for that are FPS's that take place in Iraq and OFS.
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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 02:03 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I don't have to. walk into gamestop and ask about FPS games.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 02:08 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I don't go to Gamestop, Gamestop sucks Razz
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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 02:17 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I had an idea vaguely similar to that one, by the way. It would be an UT or Quake mod, taking place in maps like schools, malls, etc. (lots of room and people.)

There are two teams: the raiders and the defenders. Basically, they duke it out between themselves, but there are also zombies wandering the place. A LOT.

Basically, you gotta kill the other team and stay alive. Now, your weapon sucks at the beginning, doing measly damage. You have to kill zombies to power it up. You gradually lose power, so you gotta keep killin' the dead. The round is over when you run out of zombies, then you sum up the points you got for fragging the other team.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 04:02 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I think what it is is, people fell kind of guilty when they kill in video games (on a subconsciouses level). But zombies are technically already dead and their is no moral "jimmy cricket" telling you "you shouldn't head shot that zombie that is trying to eat you."

I say we should have a zombie POV game where you play as the zombies and get a taste of what shit they go through when humans have guns.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 06:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:
I say we should have a zombie POV game where you play as the zombies and get a taste of what shit they go through when humans have guns.


Exactly, I've been waiting for years for a video game company to make a game like this. I would love this so fucking much.
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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 06:31 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I think there is already. A Counter Strike mod most likely.


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PostPosted: Oct 26 2008 10:37 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Nope. There's that game based on the Halo engine Bungie put out a long time ago.
I can't remember the title.

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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 12:37 am Reply with quote Back to top

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:
I say we should have a zombie POV game where you play as the zombies and get a taste of what shit they go through when humans have guns.

Resident Evil: Outbreak (for PC) had a mechanic where when you died by a zombie you became one.


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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 01:13 am Reply with quote Back to top

lordsathien wrote:
ReeperTheSeeker wrote:
I say we should have a zombie POV game where you play as the zombies and get a taste of what shit they go through when humans have guns.

Resident Evil: Outbreak (for PC) had a mechanic where when you died by a zombie you became one.


That's weak though, I'm taking full blown being a zombie from the start were you have zombie alias and your two main goals is to save your zombie girlfriend and survive. Conquering humanity can be considered a bonus.


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M3GA MAN wrote:
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idiocy at it's finest.


I support gamestop 100 percent, fuck tha haterz.


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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 10:57 am Reply with quote Back to top

Ghandi wrote:
I think there is already. A Counter Strike mod most likely.


There are a couple CS mods that involve Zombie POV.
In-game counter-strike there's the Zombie Mod. It starts with a bunch of normal Humans and then one becomes a zombie with close to 600 hp. The Humans get one life but get all the weapons. A zombie has super-strength, super-speed and super-damage, only they only can use the knife, which is actually modeled to their hands. It's intense because everyone must stick together, but then you get guys who think they are unstoppable and go off on their own only to get slaughtered and join the Zombie Horde.
A total conversion mod for Counter-Strike source is called Zombie Panic. Instead of everyone being Sodliers, it's similar to Resident Evil:Outbreak where as everyone is john Q. Public and with every weapon you pick up (which is pretty much anything) you slow down. You've got limited ammo and often times the only way to survive is by standing in a one door room and unloading into anything that comes into the room. Ultimately your best weapon is the shovel you picked up. Zombie Side is similar to the Zombie mod in Counter Strike, but you get a cool power similar to night vision. You can identify a human because the glow Red, and as they start to lose health, their body will turn green showing that they are infected with the zombie disease.
I think another one that can be considered a zombie game is called BrainBread... DOn't know what that one is about but it's another Total Conversion Mod. And the Zombies have very little body context. (In other words, one shot to the dome piece and their head's explode...)
I personally like Zombie Panic the best.
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PostPosted: Oct 27 2008 11:56 am Reply with quote Back to top

There is a HL2 mod that is a zombie vs human game. The human have to fight for what few weapons and armor their is, while the zombies have thier claws and teeth and don't need to worry about weapons. It's kinda fun, but you don't really get the "overrun by zombies" feeling when it's 10 zombies vs 10 humans.
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