I always appreciate it when we can not just review something, but allow you, the ZRC reader, to see/read/listen/view/evaluate it in its entirety. It helps us in our never-ending quest to help you, the Zombie Ally, to familiarize yourself with the best, as well as the worst, in media about Zombies.

Today’s review topic is the long-anticipated fan film “Fallout: Nuka Break”, from Zack Finfrock (Warbot in Accounting) and Brian Clevinger (8 Bit Theatre), amongst many other talented folks. We here at the ZRC loved Fallout 3, and played through the base game as well as all of the DLC expansions, logging well over a hundred hours in its world of conflict and emerging civilization. The ‘Ghoul’ race, who in our culture would be characterized as Zombies, were treated with subtlety and nuance, as characters and people; indeed, you have the opportunity to do business with Ghouls, ally yourself with them, even work toward greater civil rights for the Zombie population in Fallout 3.

Which naturally appealed to us here at the ZRC.

I’ve been waiting on this particular project for a while now, ever since Brian Clevinger mentioned it over at 8BT, and, well, I wasn’t disappointed.

Nuka Break is a good movie, full of good laughs, and is even good for Zombie Rights, continuing the proud Fallout tradition of treating Zombies as People (because of course, Zombies Are People Too).

Nuka Break’s story concerns Twig, a Vault Dweller who wanders the wasteland with his traveling companions Scarlet and Ben, our Zombie character. Ben’s an interesting fellow, the dashing rogue of this adventuring party. Mildly treacherous, level-headed and sardonic, it’s not a stretch to say that Ben is the character most people would want to be from this movie.

Isn’t that something? A Zombie character people might want to emulate?

I won’t divulge any more of the plot; it’s a short film, you can spare the time. Go watch it; I’ve embedded it below, but there’s a slightly larger size at Youtube itself (which doesn’t fit so hot here on the blog page).

Oh yeah; Fallout: Nuka Break earns a Zombie Friendly rating from the Zombie Rights Campaign for proudly and capably extending the Fallout 3 Pro-Zombie tradition into independent film.

Tags: Movies, Videogames, ZRC Reviews

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