The Mature Overlord: Has a checking account and a sweater-vest.
We’re big fans of zombies. Not so much when they’re in our face and/or eating our brains, but when they’re on TV, eating someone else’s face or enjoying a light lunch of grey matter.
Zombies are funny, zombies are strange, and most importantly they will some day be our undead overlords, or at least that appears to be the common sentiment if one looks at the current crop of movies and videogames that have zomibes as a 1) protagonist 2) antagonist or 3) hilarious prop.
Ok, so maybe there would need to be a super-zombie of some kind to rule them, an “Over-Zomb” if you will, but we’re cool with that. So long as we can get ourselves a non-eatable metal helmet and maybe some friends with really giant heads to throw off the more ferocious zombies, we’re all set.
Of course, our newfound zombie lovin’ isn’t seperate and apart from our continual chatter about Starcraft II. Oh no. We’d never do that to you.
Our zombie longings were brought up because of a zomb-themed SCII shooter that a fellow created simply by using the editor supplied with the game. The link is over at www.starcraft2academy.com, and it is one hell of a project.
We’ve panned through the video, and from the first moment it gets rolling, it doens’t even look like SCII. Once Zerg pods start hitting the ground (re: zombies), the thing starts to look a bit more familiar, but still, it is a testement to what someone with talent and real interest in all things zombie can do with their time.
We do wonder if they would spare him should the undead ever rise up. After all, he’s one hell of a promotions artist.
On the same front page is a link to another SCII tower defense mod, and we have to say it looks pretty cool. Sure, the tower thing has been done a time or two, but we like the way this one looks and plays – essentially the basics of SCII with the added ability to call down Thors for some serious bad-assery.
It’s not that we think tower defence is the greatest game ever, it’s just that, well, if we get our teeth into some good tower defence action, good luck getting us to eat, drink, or look at girls for the next day or so. There’s just something about being able to kill just one more Zerg than last time, or find a better place to put that Missle Turret – well, suffice it to say, we like towers. And we like defense.
That’s pretty much it.
Except for the fact that we’d love to see both. A zombie-themed shooter/tower defence game? What could possibly be wrong with that? Aside from the obvious logistical challenges, zombies make the perfect fodder for mindlessly striding into tower cannon or missle fire.
They’re a lot like Terran Marines in that way, but generally with a lot more self-respect. The Marine corps has been recruiting hard from the “I dropped out and work at McZergald’s” crowd. Makes killing ‘em that much easier.
To sum up: zombies + shooters = win. Towers + defense = win. Marines + high school education = SCV pilot.
Ouch. GED ftw.
