There are days here at the ZRC where I feel like I’m trapped in a time loop watching subtle variations of the same basic scenario play out over and over again until, hopefully, I can determine the proper course of action and find the Zombie Friendly solution to win my freedom.

Like Groundhog Day, but without the romance of a single couple being the crux of the universe angle. Which, when you think about it, is a remarkably trivial thing to warp all of space and time over.

Unlike Zombie Equality, say.

I bring this up because I’ve had several instances over the past few days where I thought to myself, ‘Didn’t we cover this already?’ One was when I heard about a game featuring the massacre of Zombified Zoo animals:

Once upon a time (in 2008) there was a game announcement for a zombie game coming to the Nintendo Wii. It sounded interesting, different, and was quickly forgotten when there was no follow up information on it.

Flash forward 3 years. We’re living in the future. It’s 2011 and zombies are not only more prevalent then they ever used to be but we have the undead infecting all of our consoles!

It was to be a game where, as a zoo keeper in Mexico, you had to gear up your zoo’s visitors with guns to help take care of a small infestation of undead animals. As the zombie animals got stronger, so did your choice of weapons and variety of missions.

That ‘exact’ game is not going to happen now. Mainly because instead of the Wii it will be released on Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, and Steam!

Naturally it finds a home on XBLA, which is the preeminent platform for indie game developers to prove how much they dislike the Differently Animated.

I knew it sounded familiar, so I hit the archives, and yes, it’s at least the SECOND Anti-Zombie Zoo Animal game we’ve covered:

Yes, it’s an Anti-Zombie dual stick shooter where you gun down Zombie Rhinos and other Zoo creatures, who are surely highly endangered specimens, considering the relative rarity of, say, Living rhinos to start with.

How conservation minded! What bunch of greenies they must be at Team ZPZ.

Interestingly, ‘Animales de la Muerte’ has been in development hell for quite a while, so it’s the first game developed, and I guess should get the lion’s share of the infamy here for starting this disgusting new micro-trend.

Let’s just hope it says micro; the last thing we need is a whole series of violence-against-Zombie-animals games, after all.

Tags: Anti-Zombie Products, Videogames

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