Grave Gamer News & Views — zombies

Black Ops II: The Zombies Are Coming

Take a look at our first official, well, anything about the new Zombies Campaign in the next Black Ops.  I’m referring to it as a campaign because evidently the feature returns from the grave with a host of new modes.  If only we knew what the hell they were.  Treyarch is touting this Zombies 2.0 as bigger, better, and ravenous.

I can only hope that means the mode has evolved into something more substantial than the tiresome endurance trials from Treyarch’s last two efforts.  They’re fun, for sure, but after two games of the same thing, I need something meatier to sink my teeth into (hey-ho! See what I did there?).

House of the Dead 4 Crawls All Over PSN Next Month

Not to be outdone by Resident Evil’s rail-shooter HD outings, Sega has announced it’s bringing their fourth zombie shoot ‘em up to your living room for the very first time.  Welcome House of the Dead 4 to the Playstation Store on April 17th.

The HD port will feature the co-op carnage from the original arcade, Special Edition levels, trophies, and...

Lollipop Chainsaw (PS3/Xbox 360)

Grasshopper Manufacture’s next weird, playable mish-mash of style and violence has a new date to call its own.  June 12th is the day zombies will regret ever craving the flesh of a gyrating teenager and her disembodied boyfriend’s pissed off head.  European zombies will share a similar sentiment on the 13th.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors by Andrew “Bones” Jones

First Screens for Telltale’s The Walking Dead Crop Up Like Roamers on the Horizon

With a hit television show on the air that can’t seem to go unmentioned whenever talking about Kirkman’s comic (see?  It happened just then), it was only a matter of time (read: licensing) before The Walking Dead shambled into our video games.  Licensing go-to’s and pioneers of the adventure game genre, Telltale is bringing zombie fans their virtual take on the comic series later this year for PC, PSN, and XBLA.

This makes me nervous.  My apprehension doesn’t stem from my attachment to the written material (you can keep your AMC show, the real hits are to be found on page, not on screen).  My apprehension comes from suffering through Telltale’s piss poor adaptation of Jurassic Park.  Telltale managed to tarnish my childhood film and sell me a horrendously shitty game in one fell swoop.  No small feat.

Does their complete failure of an attempt at producing something that barely touches ‘mediocre’ mean they can’t make a good Walking Dead game?  Everything in my body says, “Yes."  I’m seeing things I like, though; art direction is solid, they’re launching cool support webisodes, and the dude that wrote the script for The Book of Eli is story consulting.  But…still.  The developer has already proven injecting their rigid adventure formula to every title they make doesn’t always work (especially for established franchises).  The question now is, will it work when injected into The Walking Dead?