Player Gets Kidnapped in DayZ and Tweets the Full Ordeal

Thirteen1 – Undead fans the world over are flocking to play DayZ, the free Arma 2 mod so good it has amassed almost 400′000 unique players since launching it’s Alpha test phase earlier this year. If you’ve ever wondered how you’d fair in the Zombie apocalypse, DayZ is quickly becoming the place to give it a test run.

This isn’t your all action, Left4Dead or Dead Rising type of zombie game. Sure, it has guns, helicopters and the ability to be destructive, but it’s a much more real and far more harrowing affair. DayZ is a persistent, open-world simulation game packed with zombies marauding around a vast 225km map. The sense of danger is very real here – ammunition is scarce, death is permanent, and just about every piece of human psychology that George Romero touched on in this mega famous “of the Dead” films is starting to come to light.

Most recently, the idea that groups of vigilantes will form and roam the lands torturing poor innocent souls “just for fun”. Last night, a sol…