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Zombie Games Forever

18 MarGames and Gaming Games and Gaming 1

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Generally a game has to be kinda off the wall to catch my attention. I’d much rather play, say, a game about punching bird people over another military shooter man game. But zombie games have a magical super power that keeps them from getting old, and I think I know why:

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Why Zombie Games Hold So Much Appeal

Why do we love zombie games, and what does that say about us as a society?

(via the ever-excellent Rock Paper Shotgun)

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Daytraders of the Dead

24 JulGames and Gaming Games and Gaming



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Imagine a single player Left 4 Dead where you’re trapped in one room, you’re playing top down view, and it’s always a crescendo event. Oh, and the zombies are all stock traders, and they drop money and weapons. So you shoot them all dead (again) with machine guns, shotguns, miniguns, rocket launchers and airstrikes. And it’s free, and flash based.

OKOK, it’s only like left 4 dead in that you shoot zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. Still fun though.

Chomsky Comments on Left 4 Dead

23 JunFeatures Features





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Chomsky Comments on Left 4 Dead

I think what’s clear here, in this shot, is that it’s the humans that have the guns, the mandate to power in this situation. The undead, these new immigrants to a world that’s still very strange to them, they are, quite categorically, unarmed.

There is a struggle for hegemony you can see here. Dominion over land, a fight for sovereignity. What would you do if armed strangers came through your land? You’d attack, naturally. You’d defend yourself, is what you’d do. And if we are even attempting to consider the justice in this situation, the undead are merely fending off the humans with their hands, their feet. How much damage could they do? But, time and time again, we see a disproportionate response to this from the humans. A call to arms, a god given Continue reading »