Poll: Zombies! (Your favourite kind?)

[Tekyro]

What's with the sudden fascination with zombies, lately?

Sudden? Lately? Zombie threads are among the most common here on the escapist.

 

[Boneasse]

House of the Dead still hasn't gotten a single vote, yet Plants vs Zombies has at least two.

I think you should edit your poll appropriately.

It's done!

 

[thiosk]

I have canonized Max Brooks as the zombie messiah.

Removal of the head is insufficient for zombie death-- one must catastrophically destroy the brain to truly kill it.

 

[Soulgaunt]

Spoiler

The Half-Life headcrab zombies are probably my favorite.

There are enough variations in them, that they cover both kinds of zombies, fast and slow.

There are the normal, slow headcrab zombies, which are difficult to kill with straight bullets, but, like Romero's zombies, a shot to the head puts them down for good. They are dangerous in packs, but easy to deal with by themselves, so long as they aren't throwing things at you.

There are the fast headcrab zombies, which aren't quite as resiliant, meaning that you can kill them with body shots quickly enough, but they also embody the fast kind of zombies, associated with 28 days later, and Left4Dead, which can come from anywhere, and attack you before you realize it, making them dangerous.

Then there are the poison head crab zombies, and Zombines (which are rather similar). The poison head crab zombies take a LOT of damage, are very slow, but can throw poisoned headcrabs at you from a distance, which will knock your health down to 1 immediately. The Zombines are heavily armored, and take a lot of damage, and can throw grenades at you.

Since these zombies encompass the full zombie spectrum, you never really know exactly what to expect, and dealing with them can be rather tricky, if it's your first playthrough. That's why I choose them, because you can't really get into a comfort zone with them, the way that you can with the zombies in Left4Dead, Resident Evil, or Dead Rising.

The Left4Dead zombies are a close second, because they have good variation of the Special Infected.

Wow, that was....well put.
I was gonna say Hunter from L4D, but this reminds me of how much fun I had with Half-Life's "Zombies". (At least they died at one point, unlike infected, which are just people who act in an odd and agressive way due to a virus.)

 

[suhlEap]

i like the plants vs zombies zombies, they just tickle my funny bone.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

I truly am a fan of the bio organic weapon types of Resident Evil.

 

[GrinningManiac]

If I could count the blinded humans from the recent modern remake of "Day of the Triffids", they would get my vote

Shambling monsters or screaming, sprinting monsters are meh

But the idea of 99% of the planet's population suddenly going blind and panicking? stumbling about and grabbing onto each other for balance and clamouring towards the general direction of anyone who turns out to still have sight?

The idea of hordes of frightened, blind, panicky normal citizens TERRIFIES me beyond belief

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

The one that moves slow and is killed by one well placed shot to the head, like the Dead Rising ones :]

Same here.
The classic Romero "shambling undead" model is still my favorite.

 

[Drift-Bus]

I honestly have no idea why everyone loves L4D, or it's Zombies.

They die after one shot ANYWHERE, even arms and legs, which just kiled it for me. And they are useless as zombies. Every other zombie title, if you're swarmed, you're done, they don't fuck about. They bite you and you're dead. L4D zombies seem to like charging you in packs of 50 million, and then spend time giving you dead arms and wet willies.

I know it's more of an 'action' title with dead people running about, but I really do think they are lame.

Best zombies are either RE or DR, I voted DR because I like the game better.

 

[Maze1125]

House of the Dead still hasn't gotten a single vote, yet Plants vs Zombies has at least two.

I think you should edit your poll appropriately.

It's done!

Yay!

 

[AkJay]

The Left 4 Dead zombies sure do pose a challenge.
I would say the RE zombies, but then I remember back to how awful having to shoot them was.

 

[GodofDisaster]

I have two personal favourites the Zombies from Resident Evil for their classy slow and menacing walk, although I don?t find them as threaten now, than I did when I was younger. I also enjoy the zombies in the House of the Dead series, as their quicker movements and grotesques looks really give a proper horror feel to the game. Despite the game itself being more about action.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

The Brain eating kind
Gotta love those

 

[djpsykotiko]

Stubbs the Zombie was awesome! I loved the rallying speech he gave in the old barn. BRAAAAAINS!!!!!!

I prefer zombies more slow and lumbering though. that's how they always were originally, and how I'll always imagine them to be. The fast paced ones are just annoying and tend to piss me off more than anything.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

The kind that rises from their graves as a result of black magic.

 

[iPatrick]

The L4D zombies are the most interesting array, but the Resident Evil zombies are the most exciting to play against.