Favorite/Best Zombie Video Game?

[The Weaver]

First post after remembering about this website and it's a double post... To make this somewhat useful and since I saw at least one other person say a flash game, I think this might be worth adding: http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/zombiegames.html
Quite a few of those games have wasted more of my time then I care to admit.

 

[ShakyFt Slasher]

Just looked at some gameplay footage of Left 4 Dead (looks like COD but with zombies) and Dead Rising, which looks better but still far from an actual horror game. The zombies didn't look nearly dangerous enough. The player was basically surrounded by a huge crowd of zombies (which should mean certain death), but he was just swinging his melee weapon taking them out, two and three at a time, without a care in the world. What the fuck ??

Idk, I guess I'm crazy for associating zombies with horror.

What you just said about L4D is what similar to what I like saying to make fun of COD fanboys...

 

[Burrito With Legs]

Wow, no love for Killing Floor? That's definitely my favorite.

I am so disappointed in The Escapist at the moment for taking this long for Killing Floor to pop up.

For shame, brethren.

Killing Floor is hardly a zombie game, in my opinion. It's a great game, and I guess the enemies could be considered zombie-like, but they've got too much personality to be zombies. My favorite zombie game is Zombie Panic! Source, because it's got the best barricading in a zombie game.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

My favorite zombie game is Zombie Panic! Source, because it's got the best barricading in a zombie game.

To be honest, I hated my experience with ZPS. So much one-man army, so much hoarding, so little team work, so much fucking RAGE.

I had a far, far better experience with Zombie Master and No More Room in Hell. Zombie Master is a bit limited in variety, but the experience is so different and the community is (in my time) nice. No More Room in Hell captures the zombie atmosphere well: being outnumbered, one bite = infection, conserving ammo, not getting seperated from your team, guns being scarce and not too reliable; just the problem is that the community is smaller and there aren't many maps.

 

[Burrito With Legs]

My favorite zombie game is Zombie Panic! Source, because it's got the best barricading in a zombie game.

To be honest, I hated my experience with ZPS. So much one-man army, so much hoarding, so little team work, so much fucking RAGE.

I had a far, far better experience with Zombie Master and No More Room in Hell. Zombie Master is a bit limited in variety, but the experience is so different and the community is (in my time) nice. No More Room in Hell captures the zombie atmosphere well: being outnumbered, one bite = infection, conserving ammo, not getting seperated from your team, guns being scarce and not too reliable; just the problem is that the community is smaller and there aren't many maps.

You must have gotten the bad crowd of ZPS. :/ I've got a few hundred friends on Steam, and probably over a quarter of them are folks from ZPS. There were quite a few asshats on it, as you mentioned, but once I found my clan, I just started playing with them, and it was never a dull moment.

 

[octafish]

Planescape: Torment, or System Shock 2...what, they have zombies in them, the deaders in the morgue for one, and what are The Many but cyborg zombies? Oh and I've just been playing it but it slipped my mind, Thief, shit one of the best games ever zombies or not.

OK fine, two more recent games would be Atom Zombie Smasher and SPAZ. AZS is a very fun and addictive game, a sort of zombie puzzler, and Space Pirates and Zombies, well when the Zombies turn up they actually change the game completely.

 

[Poetic Nova]

The only zombie game that slightly interested me was the Island Of Doctor Ned DLC for Borderlands. Finished in 6 hours, not even worth playing on Playhtrough 2.
Unless the censored UK edition of Carmageddon counts.

Edit: 1 thing was positive in Doctor Ned, I got a shotty which kicked my legendary's shotgun ass.

 

[Wanderer787]

Killing floor, it's the good parts of left for dead and zombies combined.

Technically monsters and not zombies.

Depends on how you're defining a zombie. If we're sticking purely with Romero-type zombies, then you're absolutely correct. However, if we're expanding the definition to include the Haitian Vodun definition of a zombie, all of the Killing Floor enemies are zombies. There are laws on the books in Haiti banning the creation of zombies through psychoactive poisons, in which individuals lose all sense of free will, and become docile servants with poor higher cognitive function. Their families don't see them very often (if ever,) and when they have seen them they have described them as though they were enduring a living death. The creation of a zombie through science fits the Vodun definition.

Just a thought.

 

[Aprilgold]

Killing floor, it's the good parts of left for dead and zombies combined.

Technically monsters and not zombies.

Depends on how you're defining a zombie. If we're sticking purely with Romero-type zombies, then you're absolutely correct. However, if we're expanding the definition to include the Haitian Vodun definition of a zombie, all of the Killing Floor enemies are zombies. There are laws on the books in Haiti banning the creation of zombies through psychoactive poisons, in which individuals lose all sense of free will, and become docile servants with poor higher cognitive function. Their families don't see them very often (if ever,) and when they have seen them they have described them as though they were enduring a living death. The creation of a zombie through science fits the Vodun definition.

Just a thought.

Seriously? Did you read about one or two more sentences. I do say exactly what you just said, very much simpler, but still, I did say it at the end of quoting that person. Please, in the future, read the entire quote instead of just the first sentence.

 

[Wanderer787]

Seriously? Did you read about one or two more sentences. I do say exactly what you just said, very much simpler, but still, I did say it at the end of quoting that person. Please, in the future, read the entire quote instead of just the first sentence.

I did read the entire thing. And I wasn't trying to jump down your throat, I just didn't get the connotation because we didn't say the exact same thing. You said how you could see the inspiration from L4D and that the most common enemy is basically a zombie, my argument is that all of the enemies in the game are zombies based off of how we choose to define the terms.

 

[Aprilgold]

Seriously? Did you read about one or two more sentences. I do say exactly what you just said, very much simpler, but still, I did say it at the end of quoting that person. Please, in the future, read the entire quote instead of just the first sentence.

I did read the entire thing. And I wasn't trying to jump down your throat, I just didn't get the connotation because we didn't say the exact same thing. You said how you could see the inspiration from L4D and that the most common enemy is basically a zombie, my argument is that all of the enemies in the game are zombies based off of how we choose to define the terms.

I felt like you jumped down my throat because I end up agreeing with the person I quoted. And yes, it does have a Left 4 Dead influence. Theres a boomer like character, witch like character, tank like character and one that can stealth about. Their different games, yes, but they both have influences.