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Dibs on that zombie

News - by Bladeex1 - June 12, 2009 - 20:59 UTC - Be first to Comment!

It’s official and we are calling Dibs on coining this year of 2009 “The Year of the Zombie in Gaming”  That’s right you have heard it here first on AGZ.

I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m no fan of the un-dead.  I’m not crazy about the movies and put down the first Resident Evil for weeks as I found it so disturbing to play.  There was just something about the killing of humanity lost that bothered me.  It’s one thing to play a normal FPS and shoot other soldiers or aliens, but it’s a big difference from dropping some slugs in what use to be the girl next door.

With that said I think without a doubt 2009 is in fact “The Year of the Zombie in Gaming”.   So lets quantify that statment with some facts and how I’ve come to this conclusion.

I decided to look at the past year in gaming starting with 2008 and rounding out to this year here’s my list:

• The Last Guy – PS3  A rescue game in which the player character must guide civilians to escape from monster-infested cities.
• The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai – Check our review
• Left 4 Dead – A multiplayer, survival game that features zombie-like “infected” characters. It is produced by Turtle Rock and Valve.  ( Oh and for the Fans of this game Screw you Valve for the LFD 2)
• Left 4 Dead 2 – Sequel to L4D
• Dead Space – Player is trapped on spaceship with aliens that reanimated and mutated the corpses of the previous crew.
• Halo 2 and 3 – Yes that’s right “The Flood” & “the Grave Mind” take over the the bodies of Human and Covenant…That’s a Zombie brother!
• Plants vs. Zombies – Puzzle game where the player controls plants and attempts to keep zombies from eating their master’s brain.
• Resident Evil 5 – Parasitic type of zombies created by the Umbrella Corp.
• Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys! -  Think this one died before release
• Touch the Dead – FPS that challenges a player to eradicate hundreds of waves of zombies in prisons, swamps, and military bases. (Really Bad for the DS)
• Zombie Wranglers – A downloadable Xbox Live Game.  Save the city of Potters Field from an infestation of zany zombies
• Dead Rising – You play a reporter trying to scoop what’s going on in a small mid-western town.  It’s Zombies of course.
• Dead Rising 2 – Coming this Fall.
• Onechanbara Bikini Zombie Slayers – We don’t even need to describe this one.  Take a guess.  Two Girls, Swords and Zombies.

Ok that’s a pretty good list of twelve Zombie related games which I think prove my point that about us calling Dibs on naming 2009 “The Year of the Zombie in Gaming”

So no matter if you like the genre or not Zombie games are more popular than ever with more to come this year and I’m sure there may be some titles I’ve missed.