Left 4 Dead- seriously, the amount of times I accidentally jumped off the side of the building or out the window is uncountable. Right for the beginning of the game you are thrown into the middle of the Zombie apocalypse with a team and a gun.
When you're playing the game, you don't really know anything about the outbreak or how it happens. It just does. In the other zombie mediums hat we have looked at, all of the focus is on the outbreak and the people who are attempting to survive in this new zombie filled world. There is also an intense focus on the lack of humanity that the survivors have and their ever-changing moral. Zombie films are also a way to express what you think is wrong with society, like Romaro in Night of the Living Dead.
Game however, are completely different. There is little to no story and plot line, so all of the focus is on the graphics and the survival of your character and team. The audience gets none of the intensity from music, as all you hear is your gun going off, or dialogue or special effects. The majority of the intensity in this game comes from the graphics and the zombies that are constantly in your face. This fear is clear as all you could hear is Team 5 Gays and Lillia screaming about the zombies killing us.
Part B
Team 5 Gays and Lillia are self professed video game newbs and can't play any games well- well all of us save Alex. We died a lot. The majority of the time we spent attempting to kill the next wave of zombies whilst screaming about not liking it or curse words along the lines of "OH SH**! OH F***K!!" And it was fun and funny. Between waves of zombie attackers or during them we were laughing and screaming. I think the appeal for survival games or strictly shooting games is that there is virtually no thinking required to play, adding to the experience by being able to fully immerse yourself in the game. Also, there is something oddly satisfying about killing fictional things that are trying to kill you.
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