Favorite/Best Zombie Video Game?

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Melondrupe

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As far as doing actual surviving in a zombie game, I'd give it to Fort Zombie and Rebuild.

Fort Zombie
+Required to find gas, food, ammo, and medicine.
+Third-person with accuracy determined by one's skill. (Skills progress by use like Elder Scrolls and Final Fantasy II)
+A time limit of about 12 in-game days.
+Minor construction of barricades.
+Rescue and dependency on survivors.
|Randomly generated neighborhoods
-Buggy. (Zombies sometimes clip through walls)


Rebuild (Flash)
+Need to collect supplies.
+In the second, several objectives to end the game.
+Rescue and ''
|Random generation
|Managerial play-style

Other games I'd suggest would be:
The Last Stand: Union City (2D sidescrolling rpg flash)
Trapped Dead (Top-down tactical rpg)
Zombies Took My Daughter (2D flash)
Dead Frontier (Top-down online rpg flash)

Look out for:
Dead State
Class 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W5ZqDzZIQ4

Dead Island is also in my favorites due to the AI. Zombies have substance to them unlike the paper mache and cannon fodder zombies that've been seen in games. It's great that struggling with zombies isn't an automatic bite and that other surrounding zombies are more of a worry. Heck, it's great that breaking a zombie's hold is a simple left, right and not a different set of buttons each time nor the tapping of a button nor the waggling of the control stick; making it feel natural to gameplay.

If they'd make the zombies more aggressive and pursue you when you've been knocked down and not delay when you've been grappled, they could get rid of the other four or five types and maybe make the thug a simple variant of the walker and infected types. To me that'd make playing with two or more players vital. And since it was hinted at in-game, maybe add zombified animals such as bears and wolves.


Ultimately, one must ask what one wants most from a game with zombies. One where you kill zombies, one where you can kill zombies or one where you want to play as zombies.
 

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If it coounts: Half life...

I haven't played many games with zombies in, I think this is the closest I have got, apart from the small stint at Dead Rising 2, but i'm yet to play it enough to enjoy it!
 
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They've been mentioned already but I'd say L4D2 (as a complete game) and the Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare (for DLC) are the best two I've played in a long while. Also, although not strictly speaking a 'zombie game' Carmageddon deserves a mention too (those of us that played the European release mowed down green blooded zombies, not red blooded pedestrians).
 

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Wanderer787 said:
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.
 

JackandTom

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Left 4 Dead 2, Resident Evil 4 or Revelations, Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, Dead Rising 1 and 2, The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned, I could go on for a long time....
 

Cheery Lunatic

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I'm gonna go with Siren Blood Curse followed very closely by Resident Evil 4 (I don't give a damn if they're not really zombies).
 

ThatLankyBastard

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I'm gonna be original and creative and say Left for Dead 1...

I've never put as much time into a zombie game as L4D1 on Expert with my friend split-screen (I got no Live so co-op is all I have)...
 

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Aerosteam 1908 said:
Left 4 Dead 2 is my favourite and is also the best. I'd actually call it a survival game, since you need to work as a team to live, if on your own, you're fucked.

Screw Resi.
Pretty much this :p if you just try on expert mode to go on you own... you are fucked.. or just have to be extremely lucky and make it to the safe room and leave the 3 rest of your mates getting thier guts spilled by hunters, tanks and the lowly zombie... yes im a horrible person in L4D2... but its so fun >:D
 

regalphantom

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The top zombie game I've ever played is probably Zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Let's be honest, did anybody else buy Black Ops for something OTHER than Zombies?

After that, Dead Rising was probably the best, in terms of pure fun at least
 

Right Hook

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Anthraxus said:
The original Resident Evil. Newer ones are more action games/shooters than survival horrors.

Dead State does sound like the closest thing to the old school Romero style (which are the best zombie movies, btw) http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/25/a-blood-red-state-dead-state-revealed/

IF it ever comes out, that is.
I've been hearing about Dead State for a while, I was really excited initially but now, yeah, I am definitely skeptical as to whether or not it will actually get finished.
Andy Shandy said:
Has to be the Dead Rising games for me. Couldn't pick between them as to which is my favourite though.
I played the first Dead Rising and personally never got into them, they weren't really scary, I went into it with the wrong mentality and just couldn't seem to have any fun.

Owlslayer said:
My favorite is definitely L4D1, tho the second one isn`t half bad, either.
And I´m not talking about just joining a random lobby and playing a round on normal.
I´m talking about Expert mode
Playing Expert mode on L4D with my friends was a lot of fun, definitely the most fun I had with the game but the appeal went away too quickly (also two of my friends suck so it made the game way too hard, haha)
pezwitch said:
Another vote for Plants vs Zombies. Very addicting game I've spent hundreds of hours playing.
Haha, who doesn't love some PvZ?!?!
 

Killspre

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My favorite from sheer nostalgia would be Resident Evil 2. As a kid playing through the very beginning of the zombie infested town with nothing to really defend yourself, scared the shit outta me. The best however is not Resident Evil 2 lets face it its aged about as well as milk. For me it is Dead Rising for me never was it more fun and unique to go around finding different ways to kill things.
 

Al-Bundy-da-G

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Aerosteam 1908 said:
Left 4 Dead 2 is my favourite and is also the best. I'd actually call it a survival game, since you need to work as a team to live, if on your own, you're fucked.

Screw Resi.
Team work my ass. Everytime I try to play some random idiot throws a jar of puke at me and leaves me to die.

Still my favorite though. no other game lets you make zombies commit mass suicide.
 

Squilookle

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I'm sick to death of zombies, so a game has to be very good indeed to get me to like it if it uses zombies.

Overall, I'd say Conker's Bad Fur Day is the best game that features zombies, and Left 4 Dead 1 is the best game about zombies.
 

damselgaming

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I really wish that Resident Evil Outbreak had taken off, I was so excited reading the previews, then they just failed on the whole online aspect. It didn't help that the PS2s online wasn't great anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_Outbreak

Sadly I haven't been able to find anyone to play Dead Island online with me yet so still my online zombie survival lust hasn't been filled!
 

Mike Laserbeam

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This may as well be a poll thread...
My favourite zombie game? Dead Rising, obviously, because it's the best zombie game.
Any runners up? Well, Dead Rising 2 comes in a close second.