However, both games were too plodding and disempowering to be popular - after all, it isn't much fun to stumble into a zombie pack and get tired of hitting them after two or three swings of your weapon.ĭying Light is Techland's self-published follow-up, which fixes the problems the developer saw with those games. Techland had worked on two zombie games before this - Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide - which were both technically impressive first person co-op zombie shooters inspired by the third person Dead Rising. The game has also spawned many, many imitators, including the terrible Infestation (once known as War Z, before the movie's lawyers noticed) and the equally slow-developing Rust (which has changed its approach to a more sci-fi universe since it restarted from scratch). It's been in achingly-slow development given that it was originally scheduled for the end of 2012, and still hasn't come out, but has taken millions in alpha funding. The real threat, though, was other players, who have a horrible tendency to kill, abuse or even enslave other players, and really display all the worst aspects of humanity.įollowing the mod's huge popularity, the developers Bohemia Interactive brought the project in-house, and started to rebuild it from scratch. However, there have always been zombie mods for the games, understandable given the odd obsession amongst zombie fans with surviving a zombie apocalypse in the most realistic way possible.ĭay Z was the latest mod, created in 2012 for ARMA 3, which spawned players unarmed into an open world packed with zombies, where players scavenged for food, water and weaponry amidst the ruins. The ARMA/Operation Flashpoint series of games has an odd dual-life as highly-accurate team-based open world combat games and as military simulators used by, well, the military.
Players play as a bizarre range of characters, ranging from JFK and Nixon, to Sarah Michelle Gellar and Danny Trejo, following a frankly ridiculous Nazi Zombie time travel plot. Gameplayer is focused around killing increasingly strong waves of zombies, in return for points that can be used to build barricades, buy weapons, unlock new areas or activate special items. You can fight endless waves of zombies in the traditional four-player survival mode, battle it out four-on-four-on-zombies in the versus Grief mode, play custom games of Zombies, or play one-to-four player co-op in the huge plot-driven open world Tranzit mode.
And the Zombies co-op horde mode also appeared in the first Black Ops game.īut Black Ops II has the best zombie shooter of the series so far, with four separate modes.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Zombiesīlack Ops II wasn't the first Call of Duty game to have a zombie mode - that dubious claim to fame falls to World at War, Treyarch's pacific island set shooter.
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