Saturday, February 9, 2013

A Short Introduction To Flash Zombie Games

By Denise Weakley


Modern films and games would not be as good if we did not have the concept of zombies. Zombies are known as undead folks who like to gorge the living, or convert the living to zombies by biting them. Apart from this basic characteristic, they are typically shown as slow-moving and dumb, which lets a gamer to escape or fight a zombie easily. However, zombies move in huge groups, and that is why fighting them is always a challenge.

The plot of every game involving zombies could be summarized so: fight off or escape from zombies to survive. The video game could be set outdoors, or indoors. For the most part zombie games, nevertheless, are first person shooters, as far as console games are concerned. Nonetheless, when it comes to flash video games, there is much more selection when you need to play zombie video games.

Plants vs. Zombies is an example of a flash-based video game that features zombies, however is not a first person shooter. In Plants vs. Zombies, the user has to prevent a horde of zombies from invading his or her dwelling by planting a number of plants in their track. It's a easy plot that has not blocked it from becoming the most trendy flash based zombie game in the world.

Launched to start with as a flash-based game, Plants vs. Zombies is now also available on other platforms. However, it has become so trendy that its designers have ported it for Xbox, iPad and other systems. Its worldwide recognition gives us a hint about the attraction individuals have for zombie video games.

In Plants vs. Zombie you are entrusted with the chore of saving your home from a horde of zombies, which means it is from a genre of video games called Tower Defense genre. One of the most popular genres involving zombies is Survival Horror. In such games, the gamer is weaker than in action games, thus he or she has to escape the enemies. Rather, he or she has to escape the zombies by solving puzzles.

An example of a game from this style is Left 2 Die. In this flash flash game, you're trapped in a residence and have 2 days to get out of the home and get to the dock. As the user, you have several weapons that you may use on any zombies you face, however mostly you have to solve some puzzles to flee from the house.

A fashionable multi-player video game in the Survival Horror genre is Dead Frontier, which is also a flash-based game. This is a flash-based MMORPG that has been enjoyed by millions of players and even nowadays, hundreds log on to its web site to play it every day.

When you wish to fight off zombies more directly, you could play SAS: Zombie Assault 3. In this multi-player game, you're a SAS commando who has to attack zombies to survive. The latest version enables you to take part in the video game in 4-player co-op multi-player scenarios.

To play a pure "shoot em up" kind of flash game involving zombies, you may check out Redneck vs. Zombies. This flash-based flash game is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the player has to eradicate the zombies by shooting them from a helicopter.

If you're keen on strategy video games such as Sim City, it is certain that you will love Rebuild 2. The city in Rebuild 2 has been destroyed in a zombie rampage and you need to rebuild. Rebuild the city, whilst managing farms, food supply, morale, housing and other components so that you might push back and defeat the zombies by rebuilding your city.

What makes zombie games entertaining is the fact that in such a flash game you need to gun down other people, however at the same time you do not possess any moral misgivings concerning shooting them. We know that zombies are already deceased, therefore they are not able to feel any pain. This makes them perfect candidates when you want to gun down people however don't want to feel bad regarding it.

But zombie video games deliver more than just target practice for the gamer. A lot of the following games involve problem solving, as well as puzzle-solving, whereas others anticipate you to strategize and rebuild cities. If there is something universal between these video games, except for the zombies, it's the fact that there is nothing normal in these games. In every video game, the zombie stands for out-and-out chaos, and it's your job as the user to terminate the disarray and restore normalcy.




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