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Filthy digital Zombies!
This one goes out to Sarah, who shares my love for the fetid undead.
Maybe it’s not love, exactly (does loving the undead constitute unrequited necro-fascination (parenthetical within a parenthetical: I’m not going anywhere near the word “necrophilia” here. Well, except for that I just did) or is it just the opposite?).
Nevertheless, we have great affection for those who are not dead and seek the brains. If you’re a videogame player, and you share this predilection, you’re in luck. Not one, but two zombie games are in our midst.
“Land of the Dead — Road to Fiddler’s Green,” based on the George A. Romero movie, is out now and I know very little about it except that it’s a movie-to-game adaptation, which usually means it’s undead in a whole other way. One other note: When your game is called “Land of the Dead,” do you really need to add “Road to Fiddler’s Green?” You add that, you might as well be talking about a “Wallace and Gromit” title.
More promising is “Stubbs the Zombie,” published by Austin’s own Aspyr games (we’re thinking that name’s not a coincidence). This game is getting pretty great reviews and I’m looking forward to spending some quality time raising a zombie horde of my own. That’s what weekends are for.
If you’re into portable limb-losing, you could hang in there for “Infected” which involves global viruses of the sort that turn mankind into the shambling brutes.
Keep it up, game developers. Bring ‘em on. More braaaaiiiinnnss!!!
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