On the Ease of Headshots and Their Utility in Anti-Zombie Games
It’s a well-established trope in Anti-Zombie media that you have to ‘shoot em in the head’. This cranial fixation, first seen in Romero’s infamous ‘Night of the Living Dead’, has rapidly suppressed almost all pre-Romero Zombie lore in the public mind, and as such, the Anti-Zombie gaming world naturally incorporated it as a prime gameplay mechanic.
(Being perfectly fair, ‘headshots’ were a common trope in shooting games long before the current wave of prejudicial virtual slaughter against the Differently Animated kicked up into high gear.)
A new web series entitled Immersion from Rooster Teeth, who are apparently well known in the gaming humor world, seeks to test common videogame tropes, and they decided to evaluate the notion that random grab-bags of Americana like those found in Dead Rising or Left 4 Dead could use firearms against the stereotypical videogame Zombies effectively.
Their results are somewhat surprising; I won’t spoil everything, but as it happens, with minimal firearms experience you too can be a watermelon-bursting killing machine, and even firearms novices should be able to murder with a shotgun.
Which is hardly reassuring for the Zombie Rights community.
I mean, it obviously made sense that the elite and highly bigoted special forces types seen in Capcom’s Resident Evil games would know their way around guns; likewise with the soldiers in Call of Duty. Now having seen for myself that out of practice individuals with minimal firearms experience in the recent past can pick up where they left off so easily?
I worry about our Zombie friends. After all, all it will take is some wacked out redneck, high on life, meth and PBR, to declare a localized ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ and then it’s guns aplenty and mayhem galore here in America. If Rooster Teeth’s results are accurate, the carnage would be even greater than I had previously suspected.
So sad, so terrifying.
Video is embedded below.
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