It’s odd to think that the ‘zombie game’ has almost become a genre in its own right. You wouldn’t call an FPS a ‘Boring Generic-Ass Oh-Look-It’s-Terrorists-Again game,’ despite the fact that a lot of the enemies therein consist only of those guys. Is Gears of War a lumpen-freakish-man-freaks-trying-to-chew-on-my-plums game? Well, yes and no (ꦏand that’s just the average player y🎃ou come up against online).
Anywho, yes. Zombies are different. Our festering friends have become an indelible part of pop culture, from movies and such, and now they seem to be𝓰 a crucial part of the gaming industry as well. Are you an arcade shooter kind of guy/gal? No doubt you’ve mowed the shamblers down by the million. Survival horror fan? Naturally, there are undead-amundo around those parts as well. It’s kind of what zombies do best; shuffle slowly around corners to freak you out. If you enjoy open-world, collect and craft sorts of survival titles, a zombie apocalypse is just the setting for that sort of thing too.
These guys are freaking chameleons, is what I’m getting at here. They’re shoehorned in just about everywhere, like touchscreen functionality at the DS launch, and they always manage to be relevant. Fans of TV phenomenon The Walking Dead have a wealth of games to satisfy their undead urges, but some are horrifying in all the wrong ways. You’ve got to be choosey, and we’re here to help. Check out our picks for 15 Zombie Games That Are Obviously Better Than Resident Evil.
15 TellTale's The Walking Dead
As the experienced gamers among us know, licensed titles don’t have a good rep. People look at the craptacular likes of Superman 64, or the horrendous video game movie a🉐daptions by director Uwe ‘Boll-ocks’ Boll, and they mock. They mock like the mocking mocksters of mock🌱 that they are. Most of the time, they’re right to do so, but there are exceptions.
TV mega-hit The Walking Dead being one of them. Telltale Games’ episodic graphic adventure game treated the source material exceptionally well, and was critically acclaimed for it. Players praised the emotional tone of the game, the quality of its storytelling and its all-around faithful approach to💞 the show it’s based on. It is one of the best licensed titles of recent memory — that’s for darn tooting.
14 The Last Of Us
Once again, The Last of Us needs no introduction. Naughty Dog, of Crash Bandicoot fame, have something truly special on their hands here. This survival-horror/action game stars Joel, a man charged with escorting his teenage protégé, Ellie, across a post-apocalyptic world full of… well, the sorts of things that would make Resident Evil’s ꦉhorrific mutants look respectable enough to bring home to meet your mama.
The zombies of The Last of Us are a little different to the norm. These guys are dubbed The Infected, having been turned by a mutated strain of the Cordyce♒ps fungus. There are a lot of the standard jump scare setpieces featuring these horrors, but the game is also so much deepeꦐr. The relationship between our two protagonists is truly touching in places.
13 Dead Nation
Now, if you’ve seen a certain Romero movie, you’ll know that zombies aren’t always super slow shamblers. Some of these guys can really haul ass, and be chewing on your jugular before you can say, "oh crapdoodles!" (Which is apparently what you say when confronted by a zombie horde). Th🧜ey are popularly depicted shuffling along like a grandma in slippers en masse, though, which makes them perfect fodder for an arcade shooter.
If that’s what you’re looking for, Housemarque’s Dead Nation comes highly recommended. The game rose to stardom after being included in Sony’s Welcome Back package after the great PSN crapout of 2011. The game struck a chord with players for its great presentation, deceptively deep gameplay, subtle RPG elements, and replayability. Housemarque are truly masters of their twin-stick shooter craft, as the more recent Alienation continues to testify.
12 Plants Vs Zombies
This one needs no introduction. Plants vs Zombies was originally released for the PC in 2009, and has since hit every fathomable device, from the Vita to certain brands of sentient Japanese toasters. It’s a tower defense title, as I’m sure you know, which tasks the player w🥂ith distributing a whole range of different plants on their lawn to beat back the zombies attacking theirꦰ house.
Management of your seed packets is key. The sunflower cannot fight directly, but produces sun, your currency with which to place more plants. The peashooter is your basic but effective unit. The walnut is also passive, but acts as a shield to slow the zombies’ assault. There are many different plants, and you can combine all sorts to 🐻suit your playstyle and create alternative strategies. Indeed, you must, as there are just as many different kinds of zombies coming to test your defenses.
11 ZombiU
If you’re in the market for a console-exclusive zombie game, which system would you think to check first? Would it be the Wii U? No, no it wouldn’t. Nintendo, being the family-friendly funsters they are, don’t tend to be big on that sort of thing. You might be surprised to hear, then, that they prepared just such a thing for the U’s launch: Ubisoft’s ZombiU.
An FPS/survival horror set in London, the game casts you as a random survivor of the zombie outbreak. You travel around the free-roam map, attacking the undead with your oh-so-British cricket bat, and the limited weaponry you manage to scavenge. Along the way, you'll complete tasks for the mysterious ‘Prepper.’ The game utilizes a permadeath system, seeing you instantly awaken as another randomly-generated survivor on being killed. ZombiU isn’t exclusive to the system anymore, but it’s an interesting curio for fans 🎃of this sort of thinꦐg.
10 Age Of Zombies
If a Smash Bros. for mobile game characters ever became a thing, you can bet your sorry butt that Barry Steakfries would be a playable fighter. This studly little-bearded dude is the mascot of Halfbrick, developers of such mobile sensations as Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride. Steakfries, as players will know, was the star of the latter, but he’s also been the hero of a un🌄ique twin-stick shooter.
Age of Zombies, as the title suggests, features a neat little twist on the formula: wormholes. Poor old Steakfries is transported through a series of them over the course of the story, seeing him do arena battle against a horde of undead from various time periods. Gangster zombies in 1930s Chicago? Check. Mummy zo꧑mbies in Ancient Egypt? Check. A zombie T-Rex in pr🀅ehistoric times? Hell yes.
9 Dead Space
Now, how pernickety about the definition of the word ‘zombie’ are you feeling today? On that score, Dead Space has always seemed to be a bit of a grey area f💫or me. I’m going to include it, just please promise not to get your torches and pitchforks and hunt me down for taking liberties with the word.
The enemies of this sci-fi survival-horror universe, in lore terms, are known as Necromorphs. These beings are, true enough, created from dead bodies, but whether they’re truly ‘undead’ is a difficult one to say. The insidious influence of the Marker changes them, mutates their dead flesh, into a form that closer resembles aliens than human bodies. They’re zombies 🐼in my eyes, but people can be sticklers for this sort of thing.
8 DayZ
DayZ, huh? Day-freaking-Z. This is the big one, friends. The game that launched a thousand snarky Steam reviews. If you’ve ever ♋killed a fellow player by forcing them to eat a rotten banana, you’ll know that this is the very pinnacle of gaming excellence right here. What more could we ask for? Nothing, that’s what.
For the uninitiated, DayZ is a look-ma-I’m-a-real-boy full game based on the mod of the same name. It’s in alpha at the moment, and gameplay is frequently shonky, but we can forgive that. The fun of scavenging, co-operating (or not), and generally surviving in DayZ’s zombie-ravaged world is far too much fun. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Did I mention the banana incident? This one has a huge amount of potential, in a Dying Light sort of way.
7 Zombies & Trains
Do you remember the Ouya? It really was a thing, wasn’t it? I didn’t dream it? The way the Kickstarter campaign told it, this little silver wonderbox would bridge the gap between console and mobile gaming; a kind of Android console that would be cheap to game on and cheap to develop for. It would unite us all together, and we would happily sing Ebony and Ivory together in a meadow somewhere, like a big 🐻hippy love in.
As you’ve probably noticed, none of this happened. The games it offered were simplistic, arcade-y affairs for the most part. There was one, though, that I remember super fondly. Zombies & Trains is a hilariously bizarre title that sees you wiping out marauding zombies by aiming trains at them across four lanes. Power-ups,ꦏ armored zombies, and mu🥀ch addictive highscore-iness were had by all.
6 Zombies Ate My Neighbors
And now, a cult classic from back in the day. Games of the early nineties —as with movies of the era— are often so very, very nineties. SO 90s it's almost painful. The raw cool and edgy ‘tude of Sonic and the fashion sense of the Fresh Prince is strong with them. Zombies Ate My Neighbors is no exception.
This one hit both the SNES and the Genesis in 1993, a toon-tastic run and gunner that saw you defending your neighbors from all kinds of horror movie nasties. It’s not a straight mindless shooter, as you do hav༺e to retrieve said neighbors personally as well. The game was well received, and rightly so, as it’s not often you get to wipe out marauding zombies, werewolves and UFOs w🌳ith explosive soda cans and a weedwhacker.