Three Great Zombie Games

Rating: eight out of ten hungry groans: A fantastic game with only a few sticking points. Unfortunately, they are quite sticky.

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

This is an oldie, the original play station. What? Resident evil three? Not four? Yes, you see while resident evil 4 was a great game, it did not hold true to the feel of resident evil series. RE3, was very much a survival horror game, you needed to choose your gear carefully, you couldn't pick up everything unless you where a true pedant, and the Nemesis was actually pretty f***ing scary (Well it scared me anyway. I was about 15).

You play Jill Valentine, a former STARS (special tactics and rescue squad) member, now trapped in Racoon city. With zombies everywhere, food and ammo limited and a desire to not become one of the undead, you decide it's time to try and get out. There's only one problem, a new breed of T-virus, the G-Virus, has turned up. And it's created something terrible- and it's after STARS members.

For me, that's what makes a great zombie game. The survival horror aspect of it. The Ganados where not scary, you could mow them down quite easily, and you knew that there would be more ammo near by (Or Mr. “Whaddaya buyin'?). No, the true enemy in zombie films and games is other people and supplies. Yes you can easily gun down zombie after zombie after zombie, but then oh dear: Click Click Click Click. No more lead for you. And what about food? And can you trust the people you're with? These themes where heavily woven into the "atmosphere" of RE3, even if they where not actively explored. You felt like you where on the edge. You where worried if you had enough bullets. You where worried that you should ditch the secondary weapon for some healing herbs, but wanted to hold onto it incase Nemesis showed his face. You couldn't make a right decision in RE3; you could only make the one that would screw you over the least. This makes it far darker than Dead Rising, and I rank it as up there with some of the best games ever made, not just in the zombie genre. It told a great story, its control system was solid, it was actually scary, it was atmospheric, it was long and you'd play it again and again.

If you're a fan of the zombie genre, you owe it to yourself to go and play this game. Badger your local video game shop until they get a copy in on trade.

Rating: Nine out of ten hysterical survivors: It's very dated now, but there is very little wrong with it. Just don't try and fight Nemesis.

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