I became a zombie game fan when I started blasting them in Quake with grenades and rockets ten years ago, and a hardcore zombie movie fan after the Resident Evil movies came out. For whatever reason, I was knee deep in the zombie dead this weekend. I guess Halloween—like daylight savings time—was a few weeks late.
The zombie fest started out with installing Hellgate: London on my game machine. When I tried the demo out a few weeks ago, I hated it since I thought the game play was tedious, no ending to wrap up the game play, and the game seem too much like a Diablo clone. Turned out that the game is made by the same people who created Diablo II. After readjusting my thinking from first person shooter to hack and slash (never mind that my marksmen character was using guns instead of swords), I started enjoying the demo and pre-ordered the game.
My current character is Level 7 marksmen with some tricked out armor and modified guns. My main weapon is a RPG/flame thrower good for clearing out small groups of zombies, and the machine gun for larger and bigger-sized groups of zombies. The game had several memorable moments. I blew off the top half of a zombie only to see the lower half do a twitch dance before falling over. Came roaring around a corner after throwing a grenade where I expected to find a half-dozen zombies and found 20 zombies swarming out at me. After falling down to the bottom of a three-story staircase, all the zombies from the upper floors came banging downstairs while all the nearby zombies became aware of me, and took all my ammo to get out of that mess. This game should keep me busy until Unreal Tournament 3 comes out in two weeks.
The zombie war on Megatokyo has been postponed for the Real World birth of baby Jack Obadiah Gallagher. Father and mother are doing fine even though the baby came sooner than expected.
I went to Borders at Santana Row on Saturday night to locate Flight of the Living Dead DVD, otherwise known as "Zombies on A Plane" to zombie fans. The woman behind the information counter gave me a weird look when I asked about the title, almost as if I was a zombie. Her co-worker standing beside her said, "Sweet!"
No luck. So I got Black Sheep DVD instead.
If you thought zombie crows in Resident Evil: Extinction was weird, try zombie sheep. When two animal rights activists in New Zealand—where 40 million sheep outnumber four million people—steal research material being disposed of at a sheep farm, they get more than bargain for when the canister cracks open to release a zombie lamb. If that wasn't weird enough, people who are bitten but not killed turn into were-sheep! All the traditional elements of a zombie film are here: the New Age animal rights activist airhead playing the dismal in distress, one guy being stretched out to have his guts ripped out be a pair of sheep, and the usual genetic research versus mother nature debate. Plus the standard red neck farm jokes about inbred family and horny sheep. This movie is so hilariously wrong on so many levels.
If that wasn't enough, yesterday I was watching an Star Trek: Enterprise episode called "Impulse" that was about... Vulcan zombies!
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