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My coworkers have shared war stories from State of Decay that remind me of the harrowing tales DayZ players told during the game’s peak popularity. The game’s success points to players’ eagerness for an open-world zombie game that shows you the ropes then leaves you to fend for yourself in an infested world where death and survival carry real weight. State of Decay is a flawed-but-fun 360 downloadable game that offers a more accessible, single-player survival experience. The WarZ, recently renamed Infestation: Survivor Stories, is a copycat that has garnered negative reactions from gamers decrying rampant hacking and poor community support. Other games have emerged with similar concepts to DayZ.

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The mod was so successful that creator Dean Hall has been hard at work on a polished standalone version of DayZ. Unpredictable interactions with other players foster emergent stories where players aid or murder each other. The mod is rough around the edges, but players dig the hardcore survival elements in bleak, expansive world. Like Minecraft, players are dropped into a dangerous world without guidance, left on their own to find supplies and avoid deadly creatures. The primal experience of burying myself in the ground to avoid groaning predators stuck with me.Īfter Minecraft, the ARMA II mod DayZ came along. I avoided death by digging a hole in the ground and waiting it out until sunrise. During my first experience with the game, zombies and other monsters began their attack before I could build my home. New players are too busy harvesting lumber and fumbling with the game’s crafting system to notice the setting sun. Players are left without shelter when the game begins. Minecraft’s early game can be as terrifying as Neville’s day-to-day routine. In the book, protagonist Robert Neville forages for supplies and fortifies his home during the day so he can stave off undead attacks during the night. Okay, Minecraft features giant spiders and exploding creepers as well as zombies, but the nocturnal enemies remind me of the late Richard Matheson’s enemies in I Am Legend. Not much evolved in the way of open-world games with zombies until Minecraft.

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Series protagonists Frank West and Chuck Greene were racing the clock in their respective games, instilling an omnipresent sense of urgency and dread despite the comical violence. Capcom’s other undead darling, The Dead Rising series, kicked off the open-world zombie genre with an open mall environment reminiscent of George Romero’s zombie-defining Dawn of the Dead (so reminiscent that the box had a disclaimer). Resident Evil popularized survival-based gameplay with shuffling zombies, limited ammo, and sparse healing items.

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The necrotic locomotive is charging full steam ahead, but where is it going? You’d think genre fatigue would set in, but then Naughty Dog unleashes its grim post-apocalyptic masterpiece, The Last of Us, which features cannibalistic, fungus-infected humans. State of Decay has become the fastest-selling XBLA game of all time, the creator of Garry’s Mod is making a zombie game, and the DayZ standalone title is coming along smoothly. Brad Pitt is battling waves of them in World War Z, Dead Rising 3 is one of the Xbox One’s main selling points, and The Walking Dead franchise is succeeding in comics, television, and games.

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