Game Revolution writes: "The build shown at the Konami press conference in San Francisco only showed a couple of levels - a car junkyard and a blocked-off urban crossroad - but if the rest of the game is of the same quality as these two levels, we're in for one of the best downloadable titles yet. Whether it's the car grinder in the junkyard or the engine of a crashed airplane in the urban crossroads (reminds me of the Crowd Control mini-game in Saints Row 2), each level provides unique opportunities to grind zombies into mincemeat. The junkyard in particular is wonderfully imagined with explosive barrels, stacks of tires that can be sent flying by shooting said barrels, strings of colorful triangle flags flapping in the wind, patches of blood-stained dirt, and ransacked cars that you can use to stall any hungry zombies".
For some time, zombies in video games were associated with only one franchise: Resident Evil. The shambling monstrosities in the 1996 classic were so iconic that they defined the undead horde for a generation of players. Recently, though, they've begun to show their rotting faces in many titles. It's become de rigueur for designers to populate their games with a range of variations on rejects from Michael Jackson's Thriller, but why?
I know I might be wrong but I am going to say because of how well received Call Of Duty: World At War Zombies was received. After that, companies took the lemmings route and decided to implement zombies into every Tom Dick and Harry of a game.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at what Treyarch did because it made the game fun but I am disappointed at the other companies that put in unnecessary undead in order for their game to pocket sales.
I think zombies are an interesting genre...It is a shame that so many crappy games tried to copy and paste the formula from the bigger companies and just over-saturate the market with bland zombie games. Same thing occurred with the alien genre.
There actually is plenty of room for an innovative zombie game.
Old-school zombie shooting fun awaits!
Like movies, video games go through fads. When it comes to bad guys, for example, we experienced the street thug phase, followed by Nazis (we hate those guys) and most recently, zombies. At this point, the undead are so popular that it’s impossible to go an entire month without seeing a game inhabited by these brain munching creatures, either at retail stores, on the iPhone and for the sake of this article, in the magical world of console DLC. There are a slew of released and upcoming games starring flesh eating monsters, so without further ado, here’s a list of zombified downloadable content.
Chris Buffa (RunDLC)
