10 zombie games to keep you entertained
In fairness, we note that thousands of zombie games have been created, but only a few that are interesting for their concept have left a significant mark. There are a lot of mediocre and boring games. We have selected those with which you will not be bored.
We passed these games ourselves or took note to play later, having heard in the reviews from knowledgeable gamers. Games where zombies are used to create intense tension or a zombie apocalypse that has its own unique interpretation of the future.
This is for those who want to inject adrenaline into the blood. Or maybe a glimpse into the future of humanity, which awaits us in the case of experiments on the immune system in emergency situations.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War
Developer: Treyarch and Raven Software, owned by publisher and manufacturer Activision .
For years, Call of Duty games have been packaged in a package: Zombie. Suffice it to say that this game is the seventeenth in this franchise. According to eyewitnesses, the “Zombies” mode in its iteration was fun and exciting, like additions to the main game. Naturally, with each game, the zombies got angrier, more numerous, and smarter, if I may say so about the computer-controlled mass of mindless puppets.
If you do not delve into the plot, then you will be captured by the mechanics, the tension from a collision with a mass of zombies. As for the plot, it is about the Cold War years of the early 1980s between the CCCP and the USA. Although, according to the recollections of compatriots, it was the most peaceful time, the time of grace, and there was no talk of the Cold War. But there has always been a confrontation between the two powers. And now, against the backdrop of the real events of the presidency of Ronald Reagan, a campaign is developing to capture the Soviet spy Perseus, who alone can destroy the statehood of a world power. A whole group of special agents is sent to capture.
This amazing sight of the equipment of Soviet officers in the photo above smiled. At the same time, it can also stop the passage of the game, despite the fact that the game is a world masterpiece.
DayZ (Day Z)
Developer: Bohemia Interactive
This is a multiplayer game and takes place in the fictional territory of the post-Soviet space, in the country of Chernorussia. Due to some kind of cataclysm, some of the inhabitants turned into aggressive zombies. The whole point of the game is to survive in these difficult conditions. The character can kill other players or form groups to survive. Why was the landscape chosen in the post-Soviet space? Information about the creator of this game will shed light on this.
Initially, a modification of the Arma 2 game was created, reminiscent of a military training ground simulator, where virtual combat scenarios and real survival exercises in the wild could be worked out. Developed by retired New Zealand Army officer Dean Hall, after re-enlisting and undergoing rigorous and lengthy jungle survival training. Then, in exchange of experience with the military army of Singapore, he underwent a twenty-day retraining in the jungles of Brunei. An invaluable experience of survival, where you had to not only mine, but also steal from more successful comrades.
Before coming to the game, Dean made a program for the practical application of military training. Considering that Russia has always been considered as a potential enemy, it is not surprising that the game is made in locations close to the Russian terrain. But the management did not appreciate this masterpiece, and Hall began to develop an entertaining computer game.
He then joined forces with developer Bohemia Interactive.
The game is popular among gamers. According to Yandex statistics, 343.5 thousand people are interested in this game. She is interesting and unpredictable. It is absolutely impossible to predict what will happen in the next moment. All this excites, attracts, increases demand.
The game was released in 2012. In 2014, it brought developers $100 million.
Dead Island (Dead Island)
Developer: Techland
The game from Polish developers was released in 2011, in 2016 a remaster was released.
The events take place on a fictional island in the Pacific Ocean, where luxurious hotels are located, and the resort life of the rich is in full swing. Beautiful women, well-groomed men, but at one point they all become similar to each other, turning into zombies. Only four lucky ones, having immunity against a virus that turns people into zombies, are trying to escape from the island. Their goal is a helicopter on a prison island.
Weapons in the game sea. Here are both cold and blunt weapons, and a shotgun, and a circular saw. For every taste to fight the undead. You have a difficult path ahead of you, full of adventures and unexpected encounters.
Dying Light
Developer:
Dying Light is an action-adventure game in the survival-horror genre. The essence of the plot is that an unknown virus infects the inhabitants of a fictional Middle Eastern city, from which they turn into zombies. The international organization “Humanitarian Mission” sends an agent to the city, who is supposed to take information about the virus from a certain Kadyr Suleiman. Deliver her to the Mission. And so our hero begins to complete the task.
Movement occurs on rooftops and vehicles. Resources are obtained using loot. You have to rummage through the garbage cans in search of useful things. Around destruction and dilapidation. Glasses are missing. When you look at a city in a state of zombie apocalypse, you see that with the disappearance of people, the buildings are also destroyed very quickly. The city is running wild. You don’t know who to be more afraid of: either hordes of zombies, or two-legged brothers who have lost their human qualities.
When we played this game, we faced a feeling of hopelessness. There are so many zombies that at the psychological level you are in such tension that you don’t have the strength to crush, chop. And when you already think that everything, everyone is defeated, you turn around and another zombie falls on your head, which opens the gates of paradise for you. And again everything from the beginning. It just becomes unbearable. One stream was enough for us.
Left 4 Dead Series (Left for dead)
Developer: Turtle Rock Studios
Left 4 Dead Series is a first-person multiplayer game. Shooter in the genre of survival-horror. Single player mode is possible, it’s just that bots that follow you become your partners. 2008 game.
The plot is that in the United States there was an epidemic of a virus that makes people mad. Then some of them mutate, turning into monsters. The evacuation of the population begins. Four guys do not have time to evacuate together with everyone else and start the path of salvation on their own. Using several modes of transport, they still escape.
In this case, you can perform in a group of fleeing, or you can become a team of monsters to prevent people from getting out of the city. And in the first version and in the second – it’s still a team game. Maybe that’s why she is not so popular and famous. But you rarely see games where you can play as zombies. Very interesting suggestion.
Dead Rising Series (Series “Rise of the Dead”)
Developer: Capcom
A game from the zombie apocalypse series, when one offended unbalanced type is able to cause an entire pandemic that has destroyed humanity. This is a whole hodgepodge of genres. Here is an adventure thriller, and survival-horror, and a quest.
The plot is about an infection created by a man for absolutely peaceful purposes, but for unknown reasons transformed into a biological weapon. An American town is susceptible to infection, in which most of it was affected by an unknown virus. An inquisitive journalist appears who needs to get to the bottom of the truth. Thanks to the active actions of citizens, the causes of the spread and the root causes have been established, the material for the vaccine has been forwarded to scientists.
The story continues in other parts. It is characteristic that in the third part of the game a vaccine against zombies appears. Illegal people appear who refuse Zomborex, because when a vaccine is introduced, the government takes full control over the life of the vaccinated. And a very familiar phenomenon – the vaccine does not save from a new wave of virus infection.
The plots are rich, as is customary with Capcom. According to statistics, about 35K Internet users are still interested in this game every month.
ZombiU (Zombies)
Developer: Ubisoft
This is a survival-horror, interesting in its concept. The events take place in London. The hero needs to survive in a zombie apocalypse.
Interestingly? No matter how much the hero hides and escapes, someone will still bite him. After the “resurrection” all the progress you have made remains, but the equipment, all this disappears in the zombie world along with your previous body. You need to find that you and get your equipment. You even have to fight him to get yours back. Here is such an interesting twist prepared by Ubisoft developers for their fans. But in a game where there is no plot, but simple survival, this decision can diversify the monotony of actions.
And now we turn to masterpieces about zombies in the gaming industry. If the previous games were more or less with RPGs, then these are linear games. These are simply must-haves. There is a plot, and meaning, and bright characters and zombies.
The Last Of Us Series (The Last of Us Series)
Developer: Naughty Dog
This masterpiece from Naughty Dog vividly demonstrated what humanity will lose if it is overtaken by the zombie apocalypse. This is a third-person survival-horror action-adventure game.
The plot is that a certain infection struck humanity, as a result of which most of it mutated, turning into a machine for destruction. A game about how the rest of humanity survives in the post-apocalyptic period. How life is getting better. Relationships in society between groups of people, as well as confrontation with zombie mutants. It has its own vendetta, strong characters and vivid emotions of people stuck in unthinkable conditions. The exciting plot of both parts draws you in with your head.
A photo with a guitar is like a symbol of a former life. This is something that humanity has lost, which will never be returned.
Resident Evil
Developer: Capcom
Another masterpiece in the world of zombies is the Resident Evil series. Namely, with her games, she contributed to the popularization of the zombie theme both in games and in films. The main genre of games is survival-horror with elements of other genres. It continues to be watched, searched, played by up to 900K people a month. Once started by Shinji Mikami, this franchise has dominated the gaming Olympus ever since.
The plot in all games is interconnected by the same characters or the development of history. But the most zombie series are Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3. Remakes of these series have already appeared, because 20 years is still a long time for technology that has gone far ahead in its development. The zombie hordes that roam Raccoon City looking for your flesh are impressive.
The plot has the same concept. One group of people creates a virus capable of infecting humanity, turning it into zombies, in order to be able to control this mass of hordes. The other group opposes the first group and is constantly trying to find a vaccine for a new infection that appears from game to game. Here, for the first time, we can speculate that the future of humanity is in its own hands. Or it will surrender to the mercy of a handful of people who dream of world domination. Or ruin their plans. The latest Resident Evil Village game showed that a new life based on black mold has finally broken into our lives. How this will end for humanity, we will find out in the next Capcom game.
The Walking Dead Series (The Walking Dead Series)
Developer: Telltale Games (until the end of 2018) and Skybound Entertainment
This is the Saga of the life and adventures of one little girl, Clementine, who was left without parents, in such a dangerous period when a virus that turned them into zombies hit humanity. At the same time, any person who left this world for one reason or another turned into a zombie. One bite and you’re not human anymore. Only brain damage could have prevented being reborn as a zombie. A very real story that forces you to make choices that are sometimes unthinkable in normal life.
First, Clementine was led through life by the teacher Li, who has his own sad story. During the game, we can see how the character of the characters changes, how new outlooks on life are formed based on realities. Only 4 seasons. From season to season, Clementine grows older. New people turn up around her, new groups gather. We see different forms of survival in such unusual conditions. We accept something, we dismiss something immediately for ourselves, as unacceptable under any circumstances.
The Walking Dead is a classic of the world horror game genre. To look into the innermost secrets of your soul, you should go through this game. For some, it can be very difficult, because the game is too realistic and cruel to our psyche. But you will also understand that the zombie apocalypse is the most terrible future that can be prepared for humanity.
That ended a modest review of games about zombies. If you have something interesting, write in the comments. We compiled this list by listening to the opinions of gamers on one of the streams and focusing on statistics.
