List of undead-themed video games 2681729 224870145 2008-07-10T19:50:24Z Locketudor 381849 /* Mummies */ {{Unreferenced|date=November 2007}} This is a '''list of [[video game]]s with an [[undead]] theme'''. Subjects for an undead theme may include [[zombies]], [[vampires]] or [[ghosts]]. It also covers [[demons]] and [[werewolves]] which are death-related and normally [[allies]] with undead. Most games with undead are ''[[Survival Horror]]'' or action adventure ==Modern horror zombies== These games feature creatures inspired by the [[Zombies in popular culture|archetypal flesh-eating zombies]] seen in [[horror film]]s, [[B-movies]] and literature, such in the films of [[George A. Romero]], for example. Particular zombie rationale and depictions vary with the source. {|class="wikitable sortable" ! Name || Year || Platform || Description |- | [[Beast Busters]] || 1989 || Arcade || Gun-game in which the players have to shoot their way out of a zombie-infested city. |- |[[CarnEvil]] || 1998 ||Arcade || Game about an undead amusement park given the title, "The Greatest Show Unearthed!" |- | [[City of the Dead (video game)|City of the Dead]] ||Canceled|| || Based on [[George A. Romero]]'s Dead films. Its creation was canceled midway through production due to the company developing it going out of business.<ref name= "tie"> Tie-in game based directly on [[Media franchise|film franchises]]</ref> |- |[[Cold Fear]] || 2005 ||PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox|| A coastguard receives a call to a ship where the military scientist crew are all dead, the dead crew are re-animated by a creature called the exo-cell which gives the corpse an in-satiable hunger for flesh and death. |- |[[Corpse Killer]] || 1994 || PC, Sega CD, Sega CD 32X, 3DO, Sega Saturn || Video game which featured a gang of hunters/soldiers who flee from a village full of zombies. |- | [[D2 (video game)|D2]]|| 2000 || Sega Dreamcast ||Game (originally for the never released Panasonic M2) played from a 3rd/1st person perspective with a light [[RPG]] element. |- |[[Dead Head Fred]] || 2007 ||PlayStation Portable|| Game revolves around Fred's missing head while progressing through the game the player can collect an assortment of different heads which all have different abilities. |- |[[Dead Island]]||2008|| PC, Xbox 360 |- |[[Dead Rising]] || 2006 ||Xbox 360 || Player is trapped inside of a mall filled with thousands of zombies. |- |[[Flesh Feast (computer game)|Flesh Feast]] 3D|| 1998 || Sega|| Zombie Hunting PC Game |- |[[Zombie Panic! Source]] ||2005 ||PC || A Half-Life 2 mod, in which the player battles against various zombies on a team, until killed and become a zombie. Zombie Panic! is a mod for Half-Life by the same developers. |- |[[The House of the Dead (video game)|House of the Dead]] series||1996 || Arcade Xbox Nintendo Wii || Zombie blasting arcade games once famed for their extremely violent portrayal of anti-zombie combat. |- |[[Infected (video game)|Infected]] || 2005 || PlayStation Portable ||Players assume the role of a [[New York]] cop and must rescue civilians from the undead, shoot-em-up. |- |[[Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green]]|| 2005 || PC || The only Romero-based game ever released, with a parallel story to the movie of the same name. <ref name= "tie"/> |- |[[Left 4 Dead]] || 2008 || PC Xbox 360|| A multiplayer, Zombie based survival game currently in development by [[Turtle Rock Studios|Turtle Rock]] and [[Valve Corporation|Valve]] |- |[[The Oneechanbara series]] || 2000 || PlayStation 2 || [[Hack and slash]] games involving the female protagonist cutting swathes through an army of undead in modern day Japan. |- |[[Resident Evil (series)|Resident Evil]] series ||1996-2009 ||Various || Features typical flesh-eating zombies created by synthetic means, i.e. mutagenic viruses created by the evil Umbrella Corporation. However, Resident Evil 4 features a parasitic type of zombie and some other monsters rather than stereotypical zombies. |- |[[Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse"]] || 2005 ||Mac OS X, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360 ||A third-person game played as the zombie, along with an army of converted zombies. |- |[[Survival Crisis Z]] || 2004 || PC || Computer role-playing game (CRPG) |- |[[Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys]] || 2008 ||Nintendo DS || |- |[[Touch the Dead]] || 2007 || Nintendo DS || On-rail, first-person shooter that challenges a player to eradicate hundreds of waves of zombies in prisons, swamps, and military bases. |- |[[Typing of the Dead]] ||1999 || PC || A [[spin-off]]/[[porting|port]] of House of the Dead that tries to serve as a typing trainer. |- |[[Urban Dead]] || 2005 || PC || A browser-based [[MMORPG]] where players can join either the survivors or the zombies, in the battle for control of a quarantined city. |- |[[Zombi (computer game)|Zombi]] || 1990|| Arcade|| Like [[Dead Rising]], Zombi has a zombies-in-shopping-mall theme inspired by the film [[Dawn of the Dead]]. |- |[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]] ||1993|| [[SNES]] [[Sega Genesis]] ||A humorous game including parodies of many classic B-movie monsters. |- |[[Zombie Massacre]]||2010 ||[[Wii]] || light gun arcade |- |[[Zombie Revenge]]||1999 || Arcade/Sega Dreamcast || Beat 'em up where players choose one of three characters to pummel zombies |- |[[Zombie Zombie]] ||1984 ||ZX Spectrum|| 4 action game with a B-movie inspired plotline. |} ===Video games with small zombie roles=== The following games have zombies, but they are not a central part of the plot. *''[[Blood (computer game)]]'' - has zombie enemies *''[[Castlevania]]'' Series - Every game in the Castlevania series has included zombies. Some are infinitely-spawning enemies which are very easy to defeat, while others have been featured as bosses (Beelzebub) or as components to a boss (Legion, Granfalloon). *The ''[[Carmageddon]]'' series, particularly ''Carmageddon 2'' (1998), features a zombie takeover of a large city through which the player must drive, killing zombies along the way. However, it should be noted that this is only in the [[Censorship|censor]]ed version of the game; the uncensored version contained regular pedestrians as victims instead of zombies. *''[[Diablo (video game)|Diablo]]'' - Has zombie enemies *''[[Doom (video game)|Doom]]'' series (1993) - The player combats gun-wielding, zombies (among other demons) on the moons of Mars, Mars itself, and Earth. In Doom 3, more traditional zombies were added. *''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'' zombies can be found in some of the game dungeons *''[[Friday the 13th (video game 1985 game that focuses on zombies as enemies haunting the 'cursed' Crystal Lake, led by [[Jason Voorhees]]. *''[[Ghoul Patrol]]'' - Sequal to Zombies Ate My Neighbors *''[[Hunter: The Reckoning (video game)|Hunter: The Reckoning]]'' - Has zombies enemies *''[[Metal Slug (series)|Metal Slug]]'' series (1996-2006) - Zombies appear as enemies and the player character can even be turned into a zombie. *''[[Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia]]'' - Has zombie enemies *The ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]'' series (1998) has several types of zombies, which are mutated humans controlled by parasitic alien [[headcrabs]]. Also, there are several [[game modification|mods]] for the ''Half-Life'' games featuring traditional zombies: **''[[BrainBread]]'' - A [[multiplayer]] ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]'' co-operative [[Mod (computer gaming)|mod]] has players fighting off zombies and becoming zombies themselves. **''[[They Hunger]]'', A single-player [[Mod (computer gaming)|mod]] for ''[[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]'', features a three episode trilogy set in rural USA. The scenario is similar to the classic zombie film ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''. Zombies are also smarter than usual, capable of flying helicopters and using mounted machine guns. **''[[Zombie Master]]'' - In this ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' modification a team of human players must complete an object while defending their base against zombie hordes that are controlled by a "Zombie Master" *''[[Nocturne (PC game)|Nocturne]]'' (1999) - In one chapter, The Stranger is dispatched to deal with a zombie outbreak in a small farming community. It is revealed that the zombies are the side-effect of an infestation of a Lovecraftian dark god entombed under the village. *''[[Quake]]'' (1996) - Zombies are one type of monster that appear throughout the game. They may only be killed with [[explosives]]. *Both [[Mortal Kombat Deception]] and [[Mortal Kombat Armageddon]] feature longtime series protagonist [[Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat) |Liu Kang]] as a zombie. ==Revenants== [[Medieval revenant|Revenant]]s are based on folklore; these games may have a supernatural or fantasy theme. Unlike the mass-attack cannibalistic zombies of modern horror, revenants rose from the dead for individual purposes. *''[[Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem]]'' featured four distinct kind of zombies, all relating to ancient and occult gods, and all of varying strengths and alignments to different gods. *''[[Revenant (game)|Revenant]]'', in which the protagonist is a risen soul from Hell, tasked with finding a local King's daughter. *''[[Siren (video game)|Siren]]'' - The primary enemies of the game, the {{nihongo|"''shibito''"|屍人}}, are people affected by a local religious ritual gone awry. Shibito in the earlier stages appear and behave predominantly like zombies. *''[[Legacy of Kain: Defiance]]'' features resurrected creatures that rise from the ground or out of the walls by temporarily inhabiting the shells of corpses to escape the Spectral Realm and enter the living world. These creatures aren't seen in the Spectral Realm and are only presented in Raziel's chapters. *''[[Zombie Nation (video game)|Zombie Nation]]'' - in this game, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990, a mysterious meteor called 'Darc Seed' crashes to Earth and turns the inhabitants of the United States into zombies. ==Voodoo zombies== These games use a [[voodoo]] background for their zombies. *''[[Shadow Man (video game)|Shadow Man]]'' Players assume the role of Mike Leroi, who is cursed to be a zombie slave but has also been chosen to be the Shadow Man. Shadow Man is able to travel between the living world and Deadside. In addition to Shadow Man himself, Deadside is filled with a variety of undead creatures that behave in a more traditional zombie-like fashion. *''[[Akuji the Heartless]]'' The game centres around the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day by his brother, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander through hell. Akuji, however, has a chance for redemption: if he traverses hell and collects the souls of his ancestors then the loa Baron Samedi will grant him safe passage out of the underworld. *''[[Monkey Island (series)]]'' LeChuck is a pirate and the main villain appearing in the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games produced by LucasArts. Undead throughout the series, LeChuck has a different form in each game (evil-ghost-pirate, evil-zombie-pirate, evil-undead-demon-zombie-ghost-pirate and stone giant), and in the fourth and latest game he could transform at will between the three forms ==Fantasy zombies== These fantasy games take the [[D&D]] [[Zombie (Dungeons & Dragons)|version of the zombie]] as their basis. *Various ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' based games feature zombies in peripheral roles; for example, ''[[Baldur's Gate II]]'' features a man returning from the dead as a zombie to wreak vengeance on his family members for a terrible funeral, and ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' features a city populated by the undead. *''[[Ghosts n' Goblins]]'' - This game features an overwhelming abundance of zombies. *''[[Thief: The Dark Project]]'' admits every kind of undead creature. Zombies appear throughout the game. *''[[MediEvil]]'' and its remake introduces an Undead player character, Sir Dan a classic Knight but undead. *''[[Warcraft III]]'' - has a whole undead side ==Other zombies== *''[[Abomination: The Nemesis Project]]'' - Real-time strategy game where the player must defeat increasingly mutated forms of zombies. *''[[Alone in the Dark (video game)|Alone in the Dark]]'' - The game originally believed to spawn the "survival horror" genre of gaming in 1992, most enemies encountered in this game were zombies or other mutant creatures with related features. *''[[Dead of the Brain 1 & 2]]'' are two gory digital novels similar to [[Snatcher]] concerning a zombie outbreak. Released only in Japan for The [[FM Towns Marty]], [[MSX|MSX2]], [[NEC PC-9801|PC-98]], and was the final licensed [[PC Engine]] game to be released in 1999. *''[[Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death]]'' has zombies (labeled as "The Undead") among its villains, who are most notably encountered in a shopping mall a la [[Dawn Of The Dead]]. The so-called "Vampires" in the game also appear more like movie zombies, and behave like the infected in [[28 Days Later]]. *''[[Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver]]'' features various types of vampires, with one type in particular being zombie-like in regard that their flesh couldn't sustain the rotting souls in their bodies, these being the offspring of Melchiah, whom he; himself, became a gigantic mass of stitched skins ripped from the bodies of his victims. *''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]''- Zombies are featured as enemies in the game, typically in ancient tombs and other such places. They attack indiscriminately, and will go after Axis and Allies alike. They have the ability to summon evil spirits, in the form of flying, ethereal skulls, with which to attack the player. Also, one of the bosses is a hulking conglomeration of many zombies fused together, and the console versions feature missions set in Egyptian tombs with animated [[mummies]] as enemies. In addition to the normal zombies, there are also armored Zombie Knights, which resemble skeletal [[Saxons|Saxon]] warriors. They come equipped with either a [[sword]] or a [[hatchet]], as well as a [[shield]] that can deflect gunfire. Unlike normal zombies, they do not rise up again when killed. *''[[Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]]'' - Players will encounter zombies at various points in the game. Zombies in this game are portrayed as lumbering, weak undead creatures with a hunger for brains. *In the [[Myth (Video game) |Myth]] series, "Dark" alighned units are usually a sort of zombie or trapped soul, while precious few are evil spirits or cavemen of a sort. ==Ghosts and spirits== *''[[Silent Hill]]'' *''[[Fatal Frame ]]'' series * ''[[F.E.A.R.]]'' (First Encounter Assault Recon), a 2005 first-person shooter that contains ghost-like creatures called nightmares. These appear in its freeware multiplayer component ''[[F.E.A.R.#Multiplayer|F.E.A.R. Combat]]'', its expansions ''[[F.E.A.R. Extraction Point]]'' and ''[[F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate|F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate]]'', and are due to appear in its sequel, ''[[Project Origin]]''. *''[[Clive Barker's Undying]]'' *''[[Ghost Master]]'' is a strategy game where the player takes control of spirits to increase a mortal's belief in the supernatural, avenge deaths, and conscript renegade ghosts. ==Mummies== *''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]''- the console versions feature missions set in Egyptian tombs with animated [[mummies]] as enemies. *''[[Tomb Raider (series)]]'' - Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider Anniversary featured mummified cat mutants, while the game, [[Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation]] had more traditional mummies *''[[The Mummy Returns]]'' - video game based on the film ==Vampires== *''[[Castlevania]]'' series -The Castlevania series is about a war between the enchanted family of the Belmonts (originally "Belmondo") and Dracula. Almost every hundred years, Dracula is resurrected and it is up to the Belmonts to defeat him before he unleashes his wrath on the entire world. *''[[Blade (video game)|Blade]]'' *''[[BloodRayne]]'' *''[[Vampire Night]]'' (2000, Namco/Sega) *''[[Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption]]'' a vampire rpg from ''[[World of Darkness]]'' *''[[Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]]'' also by ''[[World of Darkness]]'', this game takes place in L.A. *''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' series *''[[Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi]]'' *''[[Darkwatch]]'' *''[[Buffy video games]]'' based on the show, ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' *''[[Van Helsing (video game)]]'' ==Liches== See ''[[List of fictional liches]]'' Liches are commonly from video games ==Werewolves== *''[[Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]]'' there is a werewolf as boss *''[[Legendary (game)]]'' an upcoming game featuring werewolves and other creatures *''[[Van Helsing (video game)]]'' *''[[Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi]]'' ==Notes== <references/> ==See also== *[[Zombie]] *[[Zombies in popular culture]] *[[List of zombie films]] ==External links== * [http://www.undeadgames.com Undeadgames.com] a site dedicated solely to zombie games. 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