Are Zombies in Games Overrated?

I’ve never been a big fan of zombie games. I mean, I don’t mind them. Some of them are pretty cool. If a game has zombies in it and supports the storyline in a great way, like The Last of Us, then I’m cool with that. They are, however, mainstream now. They even made their way in to romantic comedies like the movie Warm Bodies. If Warm Bodies ever became a game, I would feel so ashamed of mankind, because that’s just pushing it. I don’t know. Maybe I’m the only one that feels this way but I think that zombies are becoming over saturated. They seem to all have the same story, plot and mechanics. A virus breaks out…someone gets infected…that person infects other people…Now theres a Zombie Pandemic and you have to shoot them all in order to defeat them. Last I checked, zombies were already dead so how do you kill something that’s already dead? Am I trippin’? Don’t think so! Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think there’s a game that doesn’t involve shooting zombies. Why can’t you throw a cure at them or inject them with something and turn them back to normal? Why shoot them? The movie Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island had the right idea (I loved that movie, don’t judge me). Those zombies were “real”. When you broke off their body parts, they were still moving. They could not be killed unless their souls were put to rest. That’s more realistic to me then shooting some zombies and “killing” them.

The first “zombie” like game I ever played was Resident Evil 5. Before playing it, I rece…