COH: Europe In Ruins

So, we all know someday some evil pharmaceutical company is going to unleash a new virus that devastates the world's population by turning them into zombies. I mean come on, if it's on TV, it has got to be right, right?

Personally, if a zombie infection became imminent, I would escape to the shoreline as quickly as possible, stock up everything I can on a ship, take as many survivors as possible, and find an uninhabited island. We'll try to make things as comfortably as possible, until the zombies have all died from rotting before returning to society.

Plan B, I'll purposely get infected, find as many members of the EiR community as possible, gather them together, and then infect them all while they are unaware of my infection.

Let's lighten up the mood with some zombies. Things seem a bit gloomy lately.

pshh...

1st thing you gotta do. Find the most annoying hated person you could possibly think of and make sure there infected so you can blow their annoying ass brains out.


then. you raid anyplace that has guns. and i personally would go to an island in the pacific ocean and if thats not possible board up my locally worked at store. Walgreens.  ;)

I'm assuming I would die first in the event of a zombie attack, even if I wasn't infected?

I'd grab a gun and three friends (http://l4d.com).

I would go to walmart because the have food, (I think all walmarts have a hunting section) hunting section, medical supplies, and entertainment (Game section and tons of consoles and HD tvs).

just start shooting the live ones, and claim they were zombies....its either shoot them now, or shoot them when they try to eat you, probably better while they are docile stupid humans then blood thirsty super zombies!

What if she's, like, some super hot stripper?

save her, your going to need a concubine in hell!

What if the live ones happens to be dressed in fully army gear and heavily armed? Last thing the army needs is some crazy nut trying to kill off the surviving humans eh.

In my room i have a glassbox with a HK G3 and 3 full magazines in it. On the glass it says: in case of emergency, break glass. I guess zombies is an emergency.

Oh, and while we are at it: http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/episode.php?id=226 (http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/episode.php?id=226)

Haha, that's where I got my inspiration for this thread from. I was looking over my old junk and found that episode.

No joke, 80% of my dreams include a zombie apocalypse.
I'm well prepared  :P

What you need to do is be aware of what's happening in the world, the moment funny news starts pouring in about zombies you need to go and buy as much canned food and shit as possible, hopefully you are living in America and your household already contains weapons of some kind, most American households do. 

As such you should wait until the chaos just starts to probably go rob a gun store for extra ammunition and weapons, be sure to have a few friends, family or significant other with you to assist with storing up on such things, be vigilant as at this stage a Zombie could pop up around the corner and bite you, that would be bad news!

After you have a good amount of food and weapon supplies then you should stick it all in the biggest car possible, it would probably also be good to store up on gas around the time you start purchasing obscene amounts of food.

Then I would recommend if you live where I live in California to start driving east until you reach Nevada, it's a big empty hot desert out there and would probably be the best place possible to hold out until such time that you need to go into the nearest town to do a supplies raid, these trips will probably be the most risky times you'll face in your quest for survival. 

You might eventually have to go cross-country in search of other survivors of the epidemic, if such a thing were to happen make sure you are prepared. 

I hope this has helped as it is probably what I would do, not sure about a boat then going to find a island that is empty, sure it sounds good in theory but how long can you survive out there? :P

Also I would probably refer to the Zombie Survival Guide (it's a real book you can order) as it will probably come in handy if such an outbreak was ever to occur.

I am going to weld armour plating the the Hummer H1 im buying after i turn 18. Being a welder is a good thing sometimes i guess ;)

Yes get a gas guzzling vehicle to speed you along your way to zombieness.

Of course^^ One need something that does not break as soon as you hit some zombies :o

You aren't sure how long you can live on a deserted island, but you are fairly confident in living in a desert? That seems a bit odd.
Also remember what happens at the end of the remake of Dawn of the Dead.  They do go to an island, and instantly pwned upon arrival. 
I suggest just wearing freaking..chain mail that zombies can't bite through.  Or a vest with about 10-20 chainsaws on it. :P
Another good location is atop a skyscraper.  Even if they do come for you, its likely line by line up a stairway.  That, my friends, is just good fun.


Also we have to know if we are talking rabid crazy Zombies, or slow walking Zombies.  Or zombies that dont come out during the day.

shoot like a maniac, hold 1 bullet for you  :'(

No, not like a maniac. One shot one kill is the philosophy!

Edit: Awesome way of thinking: "If you run, you'll only die tired." Fitting for zombie apocalypse!

Well if I'm on a lonely island there is no towns to go raiding for supplies so yes I'd feel more confident in the middle of a hot desert with some shade for me and let the zombies toast in the intense heat then drive for an hour or two in a direction to go raid a town.

Also: if you go up a sky scraper with zombies in pursuit, chances are you in a very heavily populated area, the amount of zombies that would be waiting inside the building for you is most likely a billion and what happens when you need supplies? I suppose you can jump off the top of the building and suicide, it might work if you bring some parachutes with you.

I'd have trouble finding a gun because in Europe you don't have a gunshop on every corner :P.

Hmmmm, light chainmail armor and 1 or 2 swords would definatly be a good thing to start with. Make sure you arent wasted the moment you run out of ammunition.

Also an APC would be the way to go for mobility. Have fun in biting through my double plated armor, and if theres some thing like infection over air/water, the APC (at least ours but im sure every one has it) has a overpressure unit (for abc protection), so no unfiltered air can come inside.

For firearms, HK MP7 (x2) for close range with high firepower (maybe those things really need some more bullets or at least splatter their head) a G36, at best with 100 round (trommel) magazine and a reloading unit for the magazine (takes way to long to load it with the hands).

Than i would try to get to a castle somewhere as they have the best tactical positions in the country for avoiding getting into close combat, where the zombies would have to go uphill and climb some 10m stone walls. Place the tank in a position you can break out if they come in such masses that they just pile themselves at the wall and flush into the castle

but getting the guns in europe would be the real problem here yes.. but not impossible. The tank can be stolen quite easily in comparison if you know how. (Because stopping a tank from getting away is quite impossible if you dont blow it up rightaway  ;)

Yes, you would most likely die.

this is all mumbo-jumbo! What about the Rise of the Machines ?
its allready happening! http://www.theregister.co.uk/science/rotm/  ;)

"Also: if you go up a sky scraper with zombies in pursuit, chances are you in a very heavily populated area, the amount of zombies that would be waiting inside the building for you is most likely a billion and what happens when you need supplies? I suppose you can jump off the top of the building and suicide, it might work if you bring some parachutes with you."

Given you live in that type of area, its a better choice then most places.  Most likely you only have to defend one entrance, so you are pretty safe.  You'd be able to get more supplies then normal, too, being that you are in that populated area.  Given when it does run out...Maybe its Zombie Slaying time, or check other floors that you have locked down. Parachute isnt a bad idea.  If there were some sort of military opperation to cleanse the zombies, I'd imagine it would have cities like that as a priorty target, meaning you'd hopefully spend less time there.

Army people always die in zombie movies, assuming they are going to be that stupid.  It really disturbs me.  I find it hard to beleive zombies could that easily overrun a military base, and yet not kill the moronic teenager in which the story follows.

It always depends on the lvl of intl. they zombies have and what there new abilitys woud be.

Stupid zombies like in shawn of the dead woud be fun, while zombies like in "I am Legend" are quite a bit more scary.

I concur; This conversation should have begun by dictating the type of zombie.  We all must just assume they are shawn of the dead...because that is the Classic :)
and classics are always the best

Teach them to fight for, with reward and punishment system, choose smarter ones to train others, build army, take over world. Duh, as always.

I don't know why people always refer to the 'monsters' in 'I am Legend' as zombies, they are far from it, they are mutated human beings altered in such a way that they are almost primal but capable of being saved and reverted back to a normal human being.

Zombies are beyond the brink, they are dead animated corpses and you cannot bring a person back from that.

In resident evil apocalipse they have almost developed a cure to make them back like to human stage, they remember all of theyr human life even how to use a cell phone... the sad part is that the effect don't last very long :P

Need Zombie MMORP.

Definitely read the Zombie Survival Handbook, though it assumes zombies of the mindless, shambling sort not fast smart zombies.

Counter-intuitively, in the event of a massive zombie epidemic, the zombies will only comprise a fraction of the threats.  The number one problem with any plan to stockpile supplies and hole up is that everyone else will be doing the same thing so you will be competing with other humans for the limited resources.  Just look at what happened in New Orleans with Katrina and multiply it times 10 and then add flesh-eating zombies.  Not a pretty picture!

A skyscraper could be a good base of operations depending on the type and location.  You'd probably want to shoot for an office building because it would be relatively free of people as compared to say an apartment complex (though apartments could be raided for supplies).  Once you seal off the entrances your #1 worry is safe drinking water because you will go through what you can carry on your person within a day or two.  #2 is health and hygiene, because you could very quickly get into a situation where typhoid, diphtheria, or even common flu run rampant and degrade your ability to fight or flee.

big fridge ship filled with food and equipment able to turn salty water into drinking water, oh and bunch of friends (with a doctor ;P) onboard to keep morale high.

Last thing will be anchoring in some sort of bay, like in Mediterranean sea or somewhere on Pacific.

Sounds good.  Just watch out for Pirates!  Yarrr Pirates vs Zombies vs Survivors.  Who will win!?

awesome book :).

www.urbandeath.com

link does not work, but www.urbandead.com does.

Need Dead Rising 2 moar ;)

and a must in all zombie emergency's.

Jessica Alba.

Used to have a zombie MMORPG in the works. Been..4 years since any news came up about it though  :-[

World War Z! By the same guy that wrote Zombie Survival Guide. Kicks ass!

Assuming slow Zombies, I'd go to the countryside, somewhere uninhabited and build a small farm. I'm European so no guns, So I'd probably have to stock up on stabbing instruments.

Note to everyone, Don't watch "Dairy of the Dead" It really really sucks all kinds of ass! (Thats a bad thing.)

i will barricade in my room and keep playing eir against the survivor, trow them horde of undead untile i'm the one in top of the leaderboard

I'll camp out the house. The only thing I would stock on would be water and ammunition. Canned foods go along way. I'd be more worried about the event that your surrounded by shambler/fast zombies. I think the best move would just be to go to your roof with your guns.

Don't fort up, you might get left 4 dead.

go to a farm have a few guns there and there and have a few friends to help around. have a bunker by the house.

I'll put an MG in the Chateau.  ;)

The Chateau with 88's on top ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spanier/91091059/

We have five similar flak towers here in Berlin. Nowadays they are abandoned and open for everyone. One is on a hill in a park, and we often go on top with a boombox and a grill and do some partying. The view is amazing.

You guys are crazy. You'll never survive in the city, in the desert perhaps. The city would probably be the worst area. We can expect enormous amounts of zombie activity in major urban areas. Zombies can't swim, so I'm taking my chances with the island.

They can't swin, but they also can't drown! They'd just walk across the ocean floor for 10 years until they reached hawaii! Then you'd have zombies and zombie fish!!!

zombie cannot drawn? O_o

They still need oxygen to live and blood

If anyone reads comics, I recommend "The Walking Dead"...

In essence, it's "a zombie flick that never ends, and anybody is fair game"...  Very gruesome.  :)

if something like this ever happen you when in hiding for few months you could come out since a zombie is a dead body. with the flys, birds, and other things would eat away at them leaving nothing of flash behind. Look out for the black death more then zombies.

Left over zombies and diseases are not the only thing that you'll need to look out for. Who knows how other survivors will react? Long months of solitary confinement and horror will drive people insane, and most survivors probably have somekind of firearm. Not to mention those who have ran out of supplies are probably desperate and may take some extreme measures to survive.

Heh, this sounds like a good scenario for a movie.

If this were to happen my immediate plan would be to stock up on canned food, and get a pistol or ak-47 at a gun store with a lot of ammo. I would then fill my bathtubs upstairs full of water and brake my stairs with a sledgehammer, and wait out the chaos for a month or so. Then i would go to Alaska.

I'd be at my dads, in the California desert. My grandfather there has a stockpile of WW2 guns and ammo. Take that shizzle, head on down to the abandoned bunker outside of VVille, and stockpile food.

if the birds ate the infected flesh wouldn't they become infected too?

If it did happened i would go to the National Guard on the outskirts of town.
Unlike in the movies the Military would kick ass and would probably Tactical nuke large towns and Nuke Cites to Kill off the hordes in the small space but large cities and towns.
So if they did that and military did charge i have confidence that US could hold them. ::)
maybe haha

But i would hold up in my house if i had to and i have power tools
Hello Zombies meet my nail gun lol

Hmm... birds and other critters eating the flesh of the walking dead... Guess it depends on the type zombie, if that makes sense.  Perhaps the critters realize the flesh is diseased, and avoid it?  Mice can detect disease in potential mates just by smell... who's to say other animals couldn't sense the disease?  What if the zombie plague is supernatural in nature?  It's said that animals tend to have a "sixth sense" in regards to that kind of weirdness...

Anyway, personally, I live out in the sticks, about 15+ miles away from the nearest population center and about 75+ from the nearest urban sprawl.  I'd barricade the home, gather as much food, water, and weapons (firearms to be sure, but more importantly melee weapons [they don't run out of ammo]) as I could, and then head into town to try and retrieve what family may be left alive.  A good boar spear and machete would come in handy... Hell, even the wall ornament swords would work in a pinch.

Water wouldn't be a problem -- I have a well drilled.  Food, on the other hand... The problem with going after canned goods is they're heavy.  Not an issue if you have a vehicle, but could pose a real problem if on foot.

grab a boat and head for an island or if i was lazy head down to my local bar for a couple of pints and make a good night of it and deal with the zombies the next day.

Brilliant man. Problems eventually go away. Think I might try to hang out in the local bar with some strippers. Hey if I'm going out. I might as well go out in style. haha

oh strippers a great addition unless they were zombie strippers in which case its back to the double whiskeys for me

Zombie epidemic would go more smoothly if, like in most movies, the military doesn't get completely owned from the get-go.

What's with that?

Is it because they're spending all their time going, "Hey what's wrong with you? OW YOU'RE BLEEDING AND BIT ME THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE A ZOMBIE YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY JUST ANGRY ABOUT SOMETHING?"

With all the paranoia induced by zombie films, I wouldn't be surprised if people weren't as surprised as they would be if they never witnessed such an event.

All I would need is a Cricket paddle, a few friends, and a Bar.

Cricket paddle=self defense
Friends=zombie bait/companionship
Bar=safe house, and place to drink until the zombies are all blonde girls in skirts

This also brings up another point...Large countries (not land mass) need to put more money into monster research and the such. What devastates America? Aliens, Giant Monkeys, Manbearpig, a lobster fish thing (cloverfield) Tom Cruise....

Japan has Godzilla to fuck with stuff

And England has zombies to deal with (zombies must know the lack of guns in UK)

Dracula is located in eastern Europe

Austrailia has to deal with kangaroos

So forget about anihilation via other countries, we are gonna get fucked up by mutated things.


However I believe that, that will not cause the end of the world, this is how it ends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMwKPmsbWE

old but always making me rotfl  ;D

I'd go to...

THE WINCHESTER!!!

Safest place on earth, and saint would probably be there to serve us some beers.

The rifle is real!  You just need to learn to shoot  ;)


Quoted for putting Kangaroos in the same category as Godzilla, Zombies, and Vampires.

I would take my 4 .300 win mag rifles, .300 win mag pistol, 8 shotguns, get about 100 3.5 in slug and buckshot loads with plenty of .300 bullets along with my 30 06 . Go into my 300 cow calf barn (now converted to a bar) board it up with the 2x4s from the excavation company...hole up food in the walk in cooler witha generator...and get gass from the 4 500 gallon drums for my fathers excavating business.....

I would get supplies by driving into town with an offroad dumptruck
(the tires are 10 feet tall)

Ohh and the haymow of the barn has perfect shooting cupaloas with flat killing fields all around.

I dont have to worry. "Guns don't kill Zombies, Duvka does"

You'll just take a duvka on their head?

lol

Yes, or play recordings of you.

I'd rather have a voice that impresses zombie than one that attracts them (Torjado's)  :D

Why do zombies always eat people. 
You never see a zombie just enjoying a Twinkie or some Chocolate Cake.  ???

Someone's never seen Night of the Living Dead.

It takes away the pain, duh.

2 words, Mr. Hat

My plan go to my uncles house. Right down the road.
   One always carry a handgun and a knife.
   Two have an assualt rifle or submachine gun.
   Three he's got tons of shotguns,rifles,handguns,ak's,m4s,knifes, and at least 10 months worth of ammunition for all that.

Do you live in the US?

u people and your guns

who doesnt have a handgun, knife, shotgun, rifle, and 10 months worth of ammo? LOL

basically every one except u americans

fuck sake, if guns weren't so freely available you wouldn't need to protect your self... but i guess it is your god given right as an American to bear arms...

If guns weren't so readily available then we would get stabbed.....

Do Europeans think that there are mass shootings everyday in the US?

No, but still dramatically more than in Europe ;).
Let's not stray offtopic.

Good thing I have a trusty copy of "The Zombie Survival Guide"(or something like that)  :)

That's bullshit. It takes a lot more mental and physical effort to stab than to simply shoot someone. Also the possibility to survive a stab attack is much higher than surviving a firearm attack. You can defend yourself better against a knife than against bullets, and it is much less easy to attack/kill multiple persons.

Imagine all the emotional short-cut murders. If you wouldnt have the ability to just grab a gun and shoot your wives lover, you think all these murders would transform into stabbing murders? It would probably stay hand to hand assault.

The murder rate per 100.000 inhabitants is 18 in the USA, were it is under 1 in Europe. The availability of firearms is a major factor here. To ignore that fact is stupid.

To relate to the topic, stacking guns to be able to defend yourself against the zombie apocalypse, mars invaders, mutated giant ants or killer tomatoes, is stupid too.

Holy shit apex chill, i was being sarcastic. Yes we have a lot of guns, yes there are a lot of gun related deaths, but the stereotype that everyone owns a gun and we show them to each other everytime we greet someone is annoing as fuck. Yet that seems to be okey to say, but the moment we say a stereotype of Europe we are fat ignorant Americans who suck and know nothing.......But lets end this conversation now and focus on the important matter...zombies.

Forget about the zombie guide, just watch "Shawn of the Dead".

Yea, in Europe you just have the guy who locked his 18 year old daughter in a sound proof cell in his basement for something like 20 years and had 7 kids with her.

Hooray for shit talking Americans, we didn't already have 25+ pages of that in another thread ::)

Go back to that one if you want to spread some hate

Ampm, that's completely unrelated and likely happening all over the world. Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it's not there. Anyway, we really need to stay away from politics or this is going to end up like the other thread haha.

Lets just say there are worse fates than being shot....

Oh, and stabbings tend to be very fatal, nobody stabs once, its usually like 20+ times to the body.

You guys should play zombie panic, it's a pretty fun HL2 mod.
Can't wait for L4D though, might be the ultimate zombie co-op experience.

Or maybe we could just close the curtains, and lock the doors...


There's a gun store very close to my home, which is odd, really... Considering the neighbourhood...
Gun + Pie + Church Steeple.

Problem solved.

every family with an apc, zombie cannot eat people in the apc, until they learn to weld :)

Oops... My brother needs to learn how to sign out...

Anyways. There's the issue of what type of zombie they are:
 - Night of the Living Dead/Shaun of the Dead Zombies (Slow, mindless, average infectability, above average strength, hard to kill generally immortal)
 - Dawn of the Dead Zombies (Fast, hard to kill, moderately infectious (as in, they won't purposely barf on your face), regular strength, while moderately stupid)
 - 28 Days/Weeks (/Coming soon, Months) Later Zombies (Fast, extremely infectious, moderately intelligent + strong, but easy to kill & limited lifespan)

The situation varies on the type of zombies. Let me put things specifically:

Shaun of the Dead zombies are pathetic. They are the 'tards of the living dead, you know, the ones at the back of the class, etching pictures of organs into their desks. Not only are they unimaginably slow, they are also easy to fool (Shaun of the Dead foolery), and one can simply survive by just walking hastily through a crowd with a hoola-hoop around one's waist. I can imagine much of semi-urban America being zombified, as most people fall asleep in recliners while watching kitchen-knife infomercials with a TV dinner in their lap [No offense meant]. But I think someone would notice if a large horde of smelly, decayed, illegal immigrants were slowly dragging themselves towards any establishment of civilization exceeding a population of 6. Then, it would be a matter of moving to the next town, waiting a month for the zombies to cover the 3-mile distance.

Dawn of the Dead Zombies are B- Zombies. You may disagree, but let me explain...
If you have seen the new dawn of the dead, the first half-hour will explain much of the characteristics of the zombies. They can find their way around a building [The main character's boyfriend didn't magically find his way out the front door to the driveway], they can run quickly, they can survive from shots to anything but the head, as well as loosing limbs [refer to the last three to the Asian zombie, who lost an arm, sprinting towards the people trying to get into the mall]. These factors make the possibility of spreading their influence much faster, especially in larger cities. The problem is, because they are zombies, and not dangerously infected people. They eat humans. Not just brains (which would render the victim useless anyways, without a brain), but the entire body [refer to the part where the janitor has been mostly eaten by the... er... zombie]. The movie is not true to itself, as, to become infected, one must be attacked by a zombie, be bitten, but then be able to escape from the zombie so to keep major limbs intact (A zombie without muscles cannot move, a zombie without legs cannot run, a zombie without hands cannot file tax returns). This becomes increasingly difficult as zombies begin to travel in larger groups. I understand that you have a decent chance (let's say 60-40, in your favour) of escaping from a zombie/killing the zombie after being bitten. What happens to that ratio when there are three zombies in the room? What about five? A large mob of zombies can never form because if there is any more than one attacking zombie on a victim, the victim will be rendered utterly useless... Can't happen, never will...
This also applies to the first class of zombies, except for the fact that they would never bloody well catch you...


Personally, I find 28 weeks later zombies the most threatening and brick-shitting scary. They're the quiet kids in class, the ones that don't ask any questions the whole semester, but get sky-high marks.  Meanwhile, they're jacking themselves up on steriods, funded by an underground drug ring, owned and operated by them... While they can be killed as easily as regular humans, they're fucking fast, and they can use basic logic (from what I've gathered, from the last bit of 28 Days Later, in which the infected soldiers are purposely stopping to listen for people, or standing by windows until a target comes closer [the black guy soldier, who was infected at the chateau to begin with], or something of the sort). Also, if you were barricaded, say, on top of a pie factory, and you looked down from the roof, and one of the infected saw you, they'd try bloody hard to get in, making noise and signalling to other infected to try and break in. They're EXTREMELY infectious. Much to the ratio of the intensity of a wet piece of bread to Chuck Norris. They barf on peoples faces!!! Jesus christ!!! They're also the only zombies (if you can call them that) that focus on infection alone. Yes, they will bite & knaw, but they're finished after that... Also, the Rage virus has the fastest infection rate on the human body. About 20 seconds, and you're good to go and wreak havoc on mankind... You can't just barricade youself in for a few weeks and hope for rescue, an entire continent can be infected within a period of a few months... They also hunt at night... HUNT! They can hear like crazy, they can see little lights in the dead of night, and there's no loud groan to let you know that they're coming... Just peaceful tranquility into, OH SHIT!! HELP!!! GET IT OFF!!! *barf*...

Worst case scenario (Class Three zombie: Rage Virus Infectee): I find a bloody automobile and high-tale it north towards CFB (Canadian Forces Base) Petawawa, located in a more remote area of the province. As many people know, army bases are fenced off, and have many supplies to last a long duration of time. As many people know, if you live near a big city, you've got to "PaK it and Move" quite quickly in order to save your ass. I live near Toronto, a city of over 2.5 million people. Think of 80% of the population becoming infected overnight... Shit... That's a big-ass amount of people... It's the sh!t hits the fan situation, and you're really fucked if you live on the Eastern Seaboard; New York, Boston, Philadelphia, D.C. That's 10 million people right there... That's a lot of pie, trapped inside a city full of infected people...

Basically GTFO ASAP.

So a cricket paddle vs 28/days later zombies would not help?....damn...must...finish....helicopter. ..

I loved 28 days later!
28 weeks later was a pretty lame sequel though :/.

my idea is the better right now... have a bullet for yourself always, no pain as if you will get eaten alive

eh.  It was no good as a movie, but it did have some sick, man- that zombie just exploded while leaping through the air, moments.

You guys need to learn your Zombie movies, 28 Days/Weeks were not Zombie movies, the infected is what they were called, and it made sense, when they got infected with a virus that makes the person who is infected have nothing but pure rage, it was more of a virus that reverted you to the absolutely worst primal instincts.

Also they couldn't be Zombies if they starve to death, in the 28 Days/Weeks movies they eventually all died off due to starvation.

It's actually very much more likely that you'd see something from those movies than a Zombie outbreak, a epidemic of some kind could happen in todays society.

Well... to be fair, let's say there's a huge array of zombies: fast, slow, smart and dumb.

"Smart" is just from Land of the Dead. That movie sucked anyway.

No the idea of zombies becoming "smart" is an idea that George Romero shows throughout all the "Dead" movies.

Night of the Living Dead - The recently deceased wander around aimlessly trying to feed upon the living.
Dawn of the Dead - The zombies all flock to the mall because there is something in them that the mall seems familiar to them.
Day of the Dead - Bub the zombie is being taught simple things or remembers how to do them, he "uses" a phone and a razor much like a child imitating their parents.
Land of the Dead - The Bub stage is affecting all zombies, the do things out of habit and out of very basic learning.

I think people became too far caught up with the Night of the Living Dead style zombies, and refuse to accept Romero's idea of zombie evolution, which, hell, you can't disagree with it, it's the mans own philosophy!

why no one in this tread have quoted "resident evil" ?

Because enough of zombie anthology has been established from previous films...

28 days later is probably the most likely situation, yes. And I do consider it a zombie film, because it is an epidemic that infects people, making them attack the uninfected....

Left 4 dead is pretty much a game based on the whole '28 days later' concept, yet it's still regard to as a zombie shooter rather than a ... uh... what would you call it? :P

YEAST INFECTION!!!!!!!!!

Roffle!  :D Well said...

ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, NOOOOOOO!

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes.jpg/200px-)

Which looks like it could be a sweet game!

One of my most anticipated upcoming games, I'm a huge fan of solid co-op games :).
That and Mafia 2, Gta 4 & the new Total War game.

What´s "the new total war game?"
If its that ww2 thing, it fails hard.

Napoleonic Wars, I don't know the exact name.
(18th - 19th century with huge naval battles)

http://www.totalwar.com/index.html?page=/us/communityandforums/empire.html&nav=/us/6/8/

Okay i adjust my zombie plan to the new facts;

-Since my home is big enave and filled enave with food (its a pup afterall...) i just get out, get some food and that game, then lock in and play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWw9vE39IGc

28 Days/Weeks are not Zombie movies, the premise is that they're infected and they are purely primal beings that eventually starve.

Zombies do not starve, they rot but continue to claw their way towards living flesh.

There are slow and fast Zombies as seen in the many Zombie movies out today but if you consider 28 Days/Weeks Zombie movies then you are failing at Zombie class.

How about using the Zombies from the most recent Dawn of the Dead, they were fast Zombies.

total war empires.

RE was a videogame many and many years before the film comed out (no one of you played it  >:( ? ) and trust me... when you are an 10 year child with your first console game full of people that try to eat you... you will scared to death :|

i was scared from doom 2 too lol but i had 6-7 year :|

I've played most of the RE games. I remember playing my first at around 7-8. Everytime I would get to the scene on the original RE where you find one of the STARS member and the zombie turns around, I would turn off the PlayStation.

RE2 was my first Resident Evil game and I was in 5th or 6th grade, good lord that scarred the crap out of me haha.

And movies like 28 days later and the book Cell by stephen king fall under the "zombie" category just fine stuart.

Simply because that's the first description you go to, I DO think it's about time there is a word or something created just for these kind of horror movies and such, but either way it will still fall under the zombie category. Both zombies and primal virus epidemic creautes (or whatever you would call them) both are humans turned into mindless killing machines, so it's one in the same. Just as frankenstein and the creature from the black lagoon are very different, they both fall under the "monster movies" or "creature feature" category.

Zombie

–noun 1. (in voodoo) a. the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose. 
b. the supernatural force itself. 
 
2. Informal. a. a person whose behavior or responses are wooden, listless, or seemingly rote; automaton. 
b. an eccentric or peculiar person. 
 
3. a snake god worshiped in West Indian and Brazilian religious practices of African origin. 
4. a tall drink made typically with several kinds of rum, citrus juice, and often apricot liqueur. 
5. Canadian Slang. an army conscript assigned to home defense during World War II. 



Which one is it, cause I am a zombie. I'm a peculiar person.
And if its the rum I'll get some sugar,get some water,&get some alcohol and I got me a zombie. rofl...which one is it? ;D

That was hilarious!!

If no-one has seen this I recommend watching it, parts 2 and 3 are on the right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnNIs4YKtZM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjMiDZIY1bM

Oh shit I love those videos Lolto!
They're the actors from Shaun of the Dead, hilarious :D.

i've see shaun of the dead today......

Is so fuck hilarious... i loved the ending, i was really ROTFLOL