You see a lot of nasty games pitting the Living against the Differently Animated, but few allow the player to be on both sides of the completely fictitious ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ scenario that the media peddles so voraciously.

‘Infected’ from Glu Mobile, however, lets players create a customized Zombie ‘virus’ and then attempt to attack their friends with it, or defend against similar attacks, depending on which faction the player wants to control:

This challenging strategy-defense game requires players to survive the zombie onslaught with the help of cooperative units of fighting NYC cops and muggers, as well as explosive vehicles. Players can join forces with friends on Facebook, Game Center and OpenFeint to spread their own unique viruses throughout the world in multiplayer counter-attack campaigns. Tired of playing nice? Turn from ally to enemy and start infecting those same friends.

Infected offers a number of ways to defend yourself and spread viruses to others including:

DEFENSE LINES: deploy defensive units like NYC cops, muggers, vehicles and more in campaign mode!
MULTIPLAYER ATTACKS: infect your friends and let your virus take over the world in multiplayer mode!
CUSTOMIZE YOUR VIRUS: use accessories to change the appearance and effects of zombies!

This definitely doesn’t look good for Zombie Rights, pushing the discredited idea of an inevitable conflict between the Living and the Undead, but at least players have the option of rooting for the Zombies. That’s a tiny baby step, right?

We hope so.

You can see more from the game, including a few pictures, here.

Tags: Videogames

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