The Perfect Zombie Game...What Do They All Miss?

Zombies and games go hand in hand and i love nothing more than kicking some zombie @ss, but every time i hear another zombie game is coming out i always hope its the zombie game i've always been waiting for... let me explain...

Left 4 dead thought it had hit the nail on the head when i first read about it but just... lacked something...

Resi Evil a top game but never hit the zombie perfection

there are tones of them that have had a stap at doing the zombies justice but they all lack something... even i'm not to sure what that is but the zombie apocalypse seems as far away now as it always has.

I think something i'd like to see is stronge slow zombies and the ability to block rooms and doors plus add in some mates and for me you'd be onto a winner lol Anything that gives you the feeling of fear, trapted and surviver-ish.

so what do you all think what do zombie games miss? do you belive there is already the perfect zombie game? let me hear your thoughts

They all lack the same thing. The lack of not havingsomeone who complains that they're not good enough. I honestly loved L4D series and I think RE5 is one of the best "zombie" games out, seeing that they aren't actually zombies...

Left 4 Dead is damn close. Nazi Zombies (before the map packs with hell hounds etc) was up there also. There needs to be a blend. Maybe having finales in L4D3 with the ability to board up the house, block doors with cabinets, etc. Even then, I don't think that would be perfect. Proper zombies, to me, are the slow, mindless ones, like in Dead Rising.

cod: 5 nazi zombies is good

It really depends on what you think of when you hear the word "Zombie". For me, the perfect zombie game would have the zombies stupid, somewhat slow, but have TONS of them to make it a real threat. There wouldn't be any special types, it would have a more open world where you can enter any type of building, whether it be just walking in or breaking in. Ammo counts would be realistic, you can make natural barricades out of the environment. And the final piece is that if one of the players is attacked, depending on how severe, they would be infected and a timer would start showing how much time the group has to get to safety and find a way to cure them before they turn.

free roaming zombie game would be teh greatest, a mix of GTA and RPG levelling and skill elements would be awesomechaoscougar1

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]free roaming zombie game would be teh greatest, a mix of GTA and RPG levelling and skill elements would be awesomeSnipes_2

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"][QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]free roaming zombie game would be teh greatest, a mix of GTA and RPG levelling and skill elements would be awesomelaliberte11

[QUOTE="laliberte11"][QUOTE="Snipes_2"] I agree, that would just be sick. Snipes_2

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"][QUOTE="laliberte11"] so you guys wanna see another borderlands?laliberte11

[QUOTE="laliberte11"][QUOTE="Snipes_2"] That wasn't really a Zombie killing game, just one DLC was. Snipes_2

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"][QUOTE="laliberte11"] but the way he described it, it sounds EXACTLY like borderlands (with more zombies)laliberte11

Free-Roaming, set in New York City. The the game begins similar to 28 Days Later, you wake up and find the entire city is dead. I think the zombies should be the new running-zombies, I personally think they're scarier, but I also haven't seen many old zombie movies. In the game you find some different people with different goals, like one wants to go off playing 'search-and-rescue', another just has fun zombie hunting, and there's a guy who wants to make money off of it by providinga safe haven for all the surviving humans, but they gotta pay. Many strong themes, hard moral choices to make, multiple endings depending on who you help. And simliar to Far-Cry 2, you can kill the NPC's, and that will slightly change the story and have it's positive and negative consenquences.

free roaming zombie game would be teh greatest, a mix of GTA and RPG levelling and skill elements would be awesomechaoscougar1

Free-Roaming, set in New York City. The the game begins similar to 28 Days Later, you wake up and find the entire city is dead. I think the zombies should be the new running-zombies, I personally think they're scarier, but I also haven't seen many old zombie movies. In the game you find some different people with different goals, like one wants to go off playing 'search-and-rescue', another just has fun zombie hunting, and there's a guy who wants to make money off of it by providinga safe haven for all the surviving humans, but they gotta pay. Many strong themes, hard moral choices to make, multiple endings depending on who you help. And simliar to Far-Cry 2, you can kill the NPC's, and that will slightly change the story and have it's positive and negative consenquences.

Monkey_Has_Milk

free roaming zombie game would be teh greatest, a mix of GTA and RPG levelling and skill elements would be awesomechaoscougar1

That would be awesome :)

Dead Rising was my perfect zombie game.

slow zombies seem to scare me more than fast zombies lol though one majer thing zombie games should have is the ability to baracade doors and windows! :)

A story would be nice:P

story? nah all you need are zombies lol

A game kind of like 28 Days later would be cool

Hopefully dead rising 2, if there are any survivors in that game, have decent A.I. . I don't know how many I had to shoot that were stuck on that plant.

To me the best zombie games where resident evil outbreak and outbreak file 2. They felt like the real deal zombie survival at times.

I liked Left for dead but I wish it had more of a story but killing zombies does not get better than that

I deff want to see like a fallout 3(first person and third person possibilities')style zombie game in a major city. Awesome graphics, realistic scenarios. Just a crazy ass game

it would be cool if it was An actual Scary Zombie multiplayer game

this turned into a game would be cool :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-gVB-U5is

[QUOTE="laliberte11"][QUOTE="Snipes_2"] That wasn't really a Zombie killing game, just one DLC was. Snipes_2

Have any of you actually PLAYED Dead Rising?

IMO...L4D is pretty dam accurate...Nazi Zombie isn't that far off....the RE franchise lost it's magic after RE4.

For me, they are missing the scare factor and adrenaline rush. Even left for dead you knew where the zombies where after a bit. Maybe i'm asking for too much though.

Have any of you seen "dead island"? that could be the answer to are zombie dreams :)

The problem with the zombie game is the players perception. People often want to super impose the zombie movie standards into a video game. Take Night of the Living Dead; boarding yourself up in a house, making an effort NOT to have interaction is direct contrast to video games, where you goal is typically to cut a straight, bloody line through the zombie horde. Take L4D, yeah they give you the goal of making it to some extraction point, but in reality people wouldn't do that, really in the movies do you see the average joe taking on the horde and really in movies do you see the super soldier boarding up windows and hiding in a basement. The whole zombie thing is handled so differently in different mediums, everyone's perception of perfection varies wildly. So its impossible for devs to lock onto one solid direction to take the zombie genre. So you just have to go with whats the closest. Sepewrath

That part in RE4 where you seal off that farmhouse reminded me of night of the living dead.

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"][QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]free roaming zombie game would be teh greatest, a mix of GTA and RPG levelling and skill elements would be awesomelaliberte11

hell yes! i like l4d butt i think there should be more zombies.

Zombies and games go hand in hand and i love nothing more than kicking some zombie @ss, but every time i hear another zombie game is coming out i always hope its the zombie game i've always been waiting for... let me explain...

Left 4 dead thought it had hit the nail on the head when i first read about it but just... lacked something...

Resi Evil a top game but never hit the zombie perfection

there are tones of them that have had a stap at doing the zombies justice but they all lack something... even i'm not to sure what that is but the zombie apocalypse seems as far away now as it always has.

I think something i'd like to see is stronge slow zombies and the ability to block rooms and doors plus add in some mates and for me you'd be onto a winner lol Anything that gives you the feeling of fear, trapted and surviver-ish.

so what do you all think what do zombie games miss? do you belive there is already the perfect zombie game? let me hear your thoughts

corb77

I've often thought about this very same topic myself, as I cannot help but feel like every zombie game is missing something that really holds it back from achieveing true greatness. Sure some of the zombie games are classics, like Resident Evil for example, but at their core they are all just action games. If I were to create a zombie game I would focus most on the element of survival and the impact that a zombie apocalypse would have on the world. There would be pockets of survivors wrought with tension, though at the same time trying to revel in each other's company never knowing when it might be their last day. Atmosphere would have to be thick, a la Metro 2033, and there would have to be RPG-like human interactions from settlement to settlement to add some sort of attachment to the remnants of humanity. You would have to feel compelled to push on in your efforts to keep humankind safe from these flesh-eating abominations.

The zombies would have to be slow shamblers at first, who maybe evolve into quick runners later on in the game, kind of like Nazi Zombies only more gradual of an evolution. Survivors would have fat backpacks containing their entire life, and not all of them would (realistically) have guns. Some would have hammers, baseball bats, and other such blunt objects that one might pick up for protection in a time of haste. There would be an underground economy where people trade anything from packs of cigarettes to bottles of water, extra ammo, etc. etc. The story would have to be strong, and focus on the interactions of the survivors with one another, therefore it would have to be penned by none other than Robert Kirkman, the man responsible for The Walking Dead.

Have any of you seen "dead island"? that could be the answer to are zombie dreams :)

corb77

Yeah that looked pretty good when there was a possibility that it was going to be released.

I want a zombie game that is post outbreak and everything... Where there are hardened survivors and military still out fighting the zombies... Like in Resident Evil locale (destroyed cities, like Racoon City, etc...)... I don't like most zombie games because it is the protagonist and only a handful of survivors... And most of the survivors are just normal people who ran away... Where are the NRA guys with a basement filled with semi-legal assault rifles and enough ammo to take Panama?

In most games, the military/police get destroyed... I want it like the end of Dead Rising, where the military comes in and just cleans house... Maybe like Fallout Style settings, where there is just a giant wasteland filled with zombies and scattered around are military camps, refuges where people are held up, patrols looking for survivors,etc...

One bite or scratch you are infected.

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"][QUOTE="laliberte11"] but the way he described it, it sounds EXACTLY like borderlands (with more zombies)Bllasae

Have any of you actually PLAYED Dead Rising?

[QUOTE="corb77"]

Have any of you seen "dead island"? that could be the answer to are zombie dreams :)

Tripleseed

Yeah that looked pretty good when there was a possibility that it was going to be released.

You'll be happy to hear dead island is still being made and will be coming out this year, check out some gaming website on the net and you'll find all the info you need on this up coming zombie game :)

That part in RE4 where you seal off that farmhouse reminded me of night of the living dead.

TheHighWind

free roaming zombie game would be teh greatest, a mix of GTA and RPG levelling and skill elements would be awesomechaoscougar1

the zombies from nazi zombies were pretty close to getting it right