..is in cheap and exploitative fiction. Case in point from yesterday:

Is there a zombie on your lawn? Are you out of happy plants to fight them? No worries, mere citizen! Champions Online’s cadre of super-wonders is rushing to protect your home and brains from unwanted undead intrusion!

Cryptic announced that it is bringing back the Zombie Apocalypse event today in Champions Online for a couple of hours. Level 40 players are welcome to fight off the horde from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EDT and again from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. The GM running the event will be in Millennium City beforehand to help answer any questions.

This is just incitement on behalf of Champions Online, and another appalling example of the Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute we see running amok in the entertainment industry. It doesn’t matter whether your game is about tower defense, survival horror, the Yakuza or guys in tights, splash some Zombies in, abuse them, and see your sales soar!

Or so they hope.

Tags: Videogames, Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute

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