Theyre relentless, for one thing, happily chomping their way through anyone who gets in their path.
If I was going to hire any enemy for a game, Id hire a zombie.
Then theyd eat my brain.
Thats why I hired them!
Thats all you might ask, really.
The Walking Dead: Season One
Ah, the episodic zombie adventure game that started it all.
Wait, Telltales The Walking Dead didnt invent zombies?
You could have fooled me, human.
It helps that The Walking Dead is episodic, too.
Youll choose between characters only to see things end the same way further down the line.
Choice is an illusion that humans thrust onto the world, but the dead dont split hairs.
Dark Souls
Yep,Dark Soulsis about a zombie apocalypse.
This isnt anything new; people have been suggesting it since the game was released.
Dark Souls undead are the worst kind too, because they never stop getting back up again.
Hollows are more like the classic zombie: stinking, rotting, corpse-like.
Robbed of will, devoid of their former personalities and compassion for life.
In the end, they just want to finish off anything that seems more alive than they are.
In this fantasy take on the zombie apocalypse, humanity is every bit as damned.
The game pits the miniscule remnants of humanity against an unimaginably huge mass of seething undead.
Thats the main reason we gave it aBestest Bestback in the innocent days of 2019.
This is what itd be like, folks.
State Of Decay
State Of Decay is zombie figure-skating.
Im of the opinion that State Of Decay is the ideal zombie apocalypse simulator.
Ive never played the sequel, because Im not sure anything could top the original.
Sorry, Undead Labs.
Its because this take on the zombocalypse has range, ysee.
Oh, the joyous car door.
Dead Rising
Imagine, for a moment, that the zombie apocalypse is fun.
Hold that thought and say cheese!.
Thats Frank West, photojournalist and Capcoms alternative to the dingy melodrama of Resident Evil, for you.
Frank likes golf, particularly when played with undead heads.
Theres a lot to chew on in Dead Rising, but never quite enough time.
They have graphics that move around, they have stories created by writers, and they have sound.
Urban Dead doesnt bother with any of that guff that appeals to tasty brains.
Thing is, Urban Dead is very good.
Its excellent survival-replicating action point system doles out limited opportunities to achieve something on any given day.
you’ve got the option to play as a zombie too.
Best of all, its all rendered on a really zombie green background.
Nice one, Kevan.
This isnt Resident Evil, its President Evil, the VIP of Capcoms ironically undying series.
Stubbs had a bit of a comeback recently, appropriately enough for a zombie, remastered after 15 years.
Honestly, this really happened, Im not making it up.
Just because youre playing as a zombie doesnt mean youre supposed to eat people, kids.
Sheesh, I mean, does liking Monkey Island make you a pirate?
First, and foremost, they stuck the AI Director in there.
In a lot of other zombie apocalypse games, the undead are just the undead.
They dont have much to distinguish between them.
Its kind of the point of zombies, being faceless enemies who could be anyone.
Left 4 Dead evolved zombies.
You could even play as certain types of Special Infected in some modes.
Plants Vs. Zombies
Not all zombie apocalypse games are gruesome and for nihilists such as myself.
Some are for kids, and people who enjoy Flash games.
Chucking the living dead into a tower defence scenario makes sense, because they always love a good siege.
They do it professionally and for fun.
The enemies in Plants Vs. Zombies know how to liven up their undead existence.
Some pole-vault, some carry screen doors as shields, and others drive Zomboni machines.
This lot arent your average zombies heading to the mall.
Remember, though, that theyre not dealing with human defenders.
These mindless undead are up against equally mindless vegetation.
You cant eat vegetation if youre a zombie, thats just ridiculous.
Not as daft as the dolphin-riding zombies, however.
