After Being Sick Of Them For Years, Gamers Are Now Pining For Open World Zombie Games

After Being Sick Of Them For Years, Gamers Are Now Pining For Open World Zombie Games

From TheGamer (Written by Joshua Robertson) on | OpenCritic

If you cast your mind all the way back to the early 2010s, chances are one of the biggest games of the year was a zombie game. You had the likes of Dead Rising 2, Left 4 Dead 2 (which is still actually played quite a lot to this day), Telltale's The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and many more. Even the very popular Red Dead Redemption had a zombie expansion in Undead Nightmare, something which was so well-loved that fans are begging for on in the sequel.

Contrast that to nowadays, and you've only really got the Dying Light series still waving the flag for new zombie experiences. Sure, you have remakes and remasters of games like the original Dead Rising and Days Gone, but the zombie scene isn't what it used to be, and that's understandable given how saturated the genre became in the 2010s.

It's even bleaker when you look into the future too. You have Resident Evil Requiem coming out soon, and supposedly State of Decay 3 (though that's been MIA for quite some time), and that's about it when it comes to large-scale zombie games. You've got indies filling in the...

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