Zombie movies. Zombie games. Zombie books. Zombies are pretty much everywhere these days, so if you’re a fan of the bloodthirsty walkers, join me as we take a look at the top five zombie video games worthy of your time:
5. DayZ
Day Z started as a mod for a computer game called Arma. It’s now a stand-alone game, but it retains much of its mod charm (such as horrible game breaking bugs).
The reason it makes the list is because of how similar it can be to The Walking Dead. It’s an always online game that finds you scavenging to survive, but much like The Walking Dead, zombies aren’t really the problem. Zombies are easily disposed of quietly or simply outran. It’s the other players that are the REAL problem. From a lone shot ringing out before your screen goes black, to mexican stand offs, DayZ teaches us that given the safety of a mouse and keyboard, everyone is a villain in the apocalypse.
4. Dead Rising
It’s a Dawn of the Dead remake in a game.
You play as a photographer who helicopters his way into a town that has been quarantined. Of course you find zombies, and lots of them. The great thing about Dead Rising is that everything in the Mall can be used as a weapon. Running from zombies with no health and no weapons? Pick up that traffic cone and throw it at them, it might slow them down.
Like all good zombie games, the biggest issue are the people, and this mall has plenty of them. While most of them need your help to get to safety, a few have snapped and become psychopaths. You can avoid most of them, but taking them out will get you rewards that are sometimes too good to pass up.
3. The Walking Dead
It’s like the books, and not that terrible TV show.
I’ve never been a huge fan of point and click adventures or quick time events, but it’s really all this game is. In essence, you click on what you are told to click and press what button the screen screams at you to press. Sounds terrible right?
However there’s something more going on in this game. The decisions you make, while seemingly have little effect to the story at the time, actually come back to haunt you in a terrible way. You didn’t side with your friend in an argument that one time? Well sorry, but three chapters later he is going to call you an asshole and leave with all of the supplies. Throw in a main character that is both relatable and easily-liked, and you have a great Walking Dead story wrapped in the skin of a good game.
2. House Of The Dead
A game so scary it needed to be curtained off at Timezone.
First-Person shooters can be fun. They get about 1000% more fun when you’re holding a light gun and frantically pulling the trigger as a zombie arm hurtles towards you. While probably not even the best FPS zombie game (I will begrudgingly admit the COD zombie games are quite good) the ability to go to Timezone with a friend, hold an actual gun in your hand and fight off the zombie apocalypse gives it enough bonus points to get it on the list.
1. The Last of Us
This is what a zombie game should be. Resources are rare (especially on harder difficulties) so you’re going to do a lot of sneaking around and caving zombie heads in from the shadows. You’ll also come across groups of humans that will always be a challenge (a man in a window with a rifle will be the end of you, just like real life) and the story is compelling; just when you think it couldn’t get more compelling a major injury to the main character flips everything on its head.
This game should be the game all other zombie games try to be, and every zombie movie should borrow heavily from. It’s a 10/10.
So that’s my top five zombie games. It’s pretty clear that, for me, an important part of zombie games is how the human survivors are handled. What makes a good zombie game for you?
Written by Michael Loverdos.
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