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Top 5 Zombie Games

The VGutopia staff weighs in on what they think the five best zombie games are and why.

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zerocrossing4212d ago

A Top 5 Zombie Games list, without a resident Evil title?

List fail.

TheFirstClassic4212d ago

RE4 is where its at, but it's just an opinion I suppose.

kB04212d ago

I hate to break it to you, but there are other zombie games out there?

Does it really need to get stated over and over again that re is good series....I think it reached the point where it does't need to be said.

Please let other games keep a spot. :)

There a plenty of zombie games out there are have a HUGE potential...and to this date the closest we've ever had to a REAL zombie game is DayZ on PC.

It's the only 1 that actually is a fight for your life.

The rest of the games are just arcady when compared:P

zerocrossing4212d ago

I get where you're coming from and going be Rezis "Zombie" decline over recent years Id probably have to agree with you.

I would seriously be concerned though if many great Zombie titles (or any great title for that matter) went un appreciated from not having been released when gaming suddenly went main stream aka "when the cool kids go into gaming"

but yeah, like you say those other games do deserve a mention :)

yesmynameissumo4212d ago

I really enjoyed Dead Nation. Not sure why it's so overlooked.

acemonkey4212d ago

Kinda disappointed not to see Dead Nation too and Resident evil(old school not this new stuff)....should have been top 10 list add killing floor and dead island

born2live4212d ago

You know, I'm a huge huge fan of the walking dead series, but I just can't call it a game... It's more of an interactive story...

konnerbllb4212d ago

Isn't that how you would define a game?

cr33ping_death4212d ago

by George i believe you're right konner :)

bumnut4212d ago

I think he means you spend more time watching it than controlling it.

born2live4211d ago

Correct. It kind of reminds me of those choose your own adventure books - you can call them games if you'd like, but they are still basically books, just like an interactive movie is still basically a movie.

Blastoise4212d ago

I dont think left for dead is that great tbh

bumnut4212d ago

It was good on PC due to lots of free content/mods, console version felt like it ran a 4 fps & looked like crap.

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Most Offensive Video Games That Would Never Cut It Today

Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.

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thorstein30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.

The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.

In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.

MrBaskerville29d ago

Yeah, people wouldn't be constantly outraged if there weren't games that people found enraging. The whole SBI discourse shit wouldn't be a thing if all games were inoffensive. A game like Starfield can make a guy froth at his mouth, so there will always be room for a list like this.

0hMyGandhi29d ago

Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but there are massive caveats.
TV shows like Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and Aqua Team wouldn't/couldn't be made today. Hell, Ren and Stimpy was a *children's* show, same thing with Rocko's Modern Life.

It's not for some arbitrary reason, either. It's branding and IP alignment. Companies are far more risk-averse than they were when I was kid in the 90's. Of course, you have companies coming out of the woodwork to hell spur on similar content, but remember: Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and some incredibly provocative material.

And for movies? it's pretty obvious. American Pie/Wedding Crashers/Eurotrip among many other "raunch coms" have fallen out of style, and are absolutely outside what the modern day film industry is willing to stand by.
Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Rat Race, Harold and Kumar, and Van Wilder follow suit.

Remember: I am not explicitly talking about films put onto streamers. I am talking wide-releases in actual theaters. Same thing goes for games: Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Manhunt, Six Days In Fallujah (with their original concept), Hatred, and so on and so forth. Of course, I'd be inclined to mention most tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Joint Ops as well, due to cultural sensitivity regarding *who* you are shooting and why.

And not all of it is bad (obviously). Tastes change, and perspectives change to fit the demographic.
I should add that I'm a lefty, living in L.A. Working in film.

thorstein29d ago

The Boys, Invincible, Jojo Rabbit, Deadpool, Gen V, Last of Us, Banshee... There are plenty of media being made today that people will claim "can't be made today".

Profchaos29d ago

Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.

thorstein28d ago

The Outlast Trials just came out.

But the storyline of Manhunt was that you were executed. But then lived. And if you didn't do as you were told, you'd die. And the people you killed were not innocents.

It was all filmed by a psychopath.

As we speak GTA VI is being finished up for a release. You get to play a Bonnie and Clyde type of protagonist who run up against the law.

Bodycam looks so real.

People are making those games. Articles like this will always exist no matter how incorrect they are, no matter how many times they blame "them" for whatever it is "they" do to prevent "those" games from being made.

Number1TailzFan29d ago

The UK is the biggest junk country pandering to that nonsense as well, with laws against free speech and expression to match. It got so bad even Rowan Atkinson made a video on free speech about it.

Now the UK raises the age rating on harmless films like Mary Poppins, it's just a load of pansy weak ass nonsense.

MrDead29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

The right wing Tories have been in power in the UK for the 14 years you know the ones that are "anti-woke", blame them for your perceptions.

Killer2020UK29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

Are these snowflakes in the room with us now?

This is more faux outrage designed to get hits. The consequences are unfortunately creating hysteria amongst those willing to buy into it and blame "them" or "the left" or "liberals" meanwhile the left are kicking off about genocide, actual real world abhorrent acts. Nobody is campaigning to censor this shit.

Huey_My_D_Long29d ago

Not too mention the fact that some of these game are controversial for you know, underage porn and encouraging rape.

So either the guy just came in to comment snowflakes without reading anything, or he is calling people snowflakes for having a problem with said titles. Crazy how much brain rot someone can have.

banger8830d ago

Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."

"Feminist Whore" lmao

gold_drake29d ago

ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.

its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.

ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.

Barlos29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

They're not offensive.

And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!

Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Deeeeznuuuts29d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername29d ago

Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.

isarai29d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

Its crazy that people are fixated on Fat princess when clearly the list is going over controversies, and not all of them are equal. Like way worse examples but pretend the entire list is like that.

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