Getting into Zombie Games

Even in video game terms, this week has been chock full of zombie news. Sony and Microsoft, the dueling juggernauts of the console market, both offered up fresh and appropriately gory details about their respective (and exclusive) open-world games about killing the living dead—H1Z1 and State of Decay.

Personally, I'm excited for both games. And there are plenty of other people who are too. Why else would companies of this size risk investing so much to make these things?

Judging by a lot of the chatter I've seen around our coverage, however, I get the sense that there are also a lot of gamers out there who are feeling fatigued by the prospect of spending another console generation shooting at rotting faces. One comment on my H1Z1 post summed up this sentiment nicely: "I'm so done with zombie games. There's been way too many in the last couple of years."



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