Posts from — January 2009

Blood cakes my fatigues as I blast my way through the door pumping shotgun rounds through undead torsos. As my shells deplete from my magazine I transition to my Browning .30 Cal, pushing through zombies like a lawnmower. Time is of the essence. My friend calls for my aid, his cries for help become increasingly drowned out by the howls of bloody hunger. He makes his last stand driving zombies away with his meager pistol shots.

His marker has now gone from red to dead. He is no more.

I am officially screwed. With no sacred laser to defend myself the horde of zombies ravage my body. Along with the homework I had hoped to turn in.

Well, zombies may not be directly eating my homework, but they sure are sapping my will to study. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m filled with an eagerness to learn. But when I get back to my apartment I just feel the need to pick up an Xbox 360 controller, meet three complete strangers, and smear zombie paste all over the canvas that is my 42″ LCD. Never has a large chest had such a mesmerizing effect on gamers…well a wooden one anyway. Now I know the regular multiplayer rounds are fun, but I’ve played enough deathmatch to make the Master Chief shiver. It just doesn’t have the excruciatingly important teamwork that Nazi Zombies requires. People need to know who is guarding which entrance, when to make their way to the escape route, which guns are best for each zombie pore, and most important to NOT KILL THE CRAWLER UNTIL EVERYONE IS READY!

Bravo to the designers though. The game designers behind Call of Duty: World at War knew what people really wanted.

To survive a zombie siege with three other unlucky souls.

So tell all your friends to turn their XBox 360 consoles on and start plugging zombies through the skull! I’ve only been to round 19 with three other people. What round can you get to?

-Jay