Just a quick post to outline a couple of new entries in the flood of Zombie themed games coming out for the iPhone.

First, a game that tries to tie the two greatest and most exaggerated fears of modern America together: Zombies and terrorism.

Creatively enough, it’s called Terrorist Zombies:

Legions of zombies are taking over the world after terrorists unleashed an experimental neurotoxin. As a marine, you are to defend what little remains of human civilization by gunning down incoming zombies to buy uninfected civilians enough time to evacuate. This is the futuristic scenario presented in Terrorist Zombies by Appular. How many zombie waves can you survive?

I don’t know what’s more disturbing, that Zombies might become the newest acceptable targets of oppression in the name of Homeland Security, or that once again, Zombies are automatically excluded from ‘human civilization’, as if they have nothing to contribute to said civilization and deserve none of its rewards.

Next up is ‘Zombie Trailer Park’ which manages to stereotype trailer parks, rednecks and Zombies all at once:

The application developer’s description of the application is, “Zombies have taken over and destroyed the Metropolis – luckily you were never much for city folk. But now the zombies have turned their sights on your trailer park! Manage your economy and train fighting units to defend your trailer park. Gather “Yee-Haw” power to activate super weapons. Submit and share your best stage times with your friends. Here come the zombies! Go go go!”

Yee-Haw power? Seriously?

Yet another Zombie Apocalypse, and yet another ‘defend the farmhouse/homestead/fortress’ scenario. Honestly. How many times are we going to see variations on this theme? Why can’t the Anti-Zombie game producers come up with something at least a little bit more original?

Thus this week we have defending Living people in a Fall of Saigon scenario, and defending a trailer park from Zombies, who probably just want to check out some affordable housing, but do they get a chance?

Nooooooo.

Separate but Equal is not acceptable, blast it. When will society learn this simple lesson?

Tags: Videogames

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