Digital Chumps writes: "With the success of Left 4 Dead, the Resident Evil series, and the sweet zombies mode in the latest Call of Duty, it's easy to see why the zombie craze has taken off. Zombies are a universally hated foe across all races and cultures, and the ferocity of their bloodlust is only matched by the cheesiness of their inherent humor. Couple that with modern game's reliance on making sure there's a gun in your hand, and you're basically left with the all around perfect foe. Certainly not one to sit out a party, Konami and Nihilistic Software (the guys behind the underrated Conan game a few years ago) have churned out Zombie Apocalypse. Zombies are pretty cool, and the apocalypse, in the context of a game, isn't too far behind, so I bet you're wondering if those two things are twice as awesome when they're combined. Oh, let me tell you."
For some time, zombies in video games were associated with only one franchise: Resident Evil. The shambling monstrosities in the 1996 classic were so iconic that they defined the undead horde for a generation of players. Recently, though, they've begun to show their rotting faces in many titles. It's become de rigueur for designers to populate their games with a range of variations on rejects from Michael Jackson's Thriller, but why?
I know I might be wrong but I am going to say because of how well received Call Of Duty: World At War Zombies was received. After that, companies took the lemmings route and decided to implement zombies into every Tom Dick and Harry of a game.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at what Treyarch did because it made the game fun but I am disappointed at the other companies that put in unnecessary undead in order for their game to pocket sales.
I think zombies are an interesting genre...It is a shame that so many crappy games tried to copy and paste the formula from the bigger companies and just over-saturate the market with bland zombie games. Same thing occurred with the alien genre.
There actually is plenty of room for an innovative zombie game.
Old-school zombie shooting fun awaits!
Like movies, video games go through fads. When it comes to bad guys, for example, we experienced the street thug phase, followed by Nazis (we hate those guys) and most recently, zombies. At this point, the undead are so popular that it’s impossible to go an entire month without seeing a game inhabited by these brain munching creatures, either at retail stores, on the iPhone and for the sake of this article, in the magical world of console DLC. There are a slew of released and upcoming games starring flesh eating monsters, so without further ado, here’s a list of zombified downloadable content.
Chris Buffa (RunDLC)
I thought this game turned out alright actually. I like how theres more multiplayer in this than Burn Zombie Burn.