Over the years, a cliche of zombie video games spawned due to the popularity of the genre and it has never been the same for the gaming industry to look back and say that it can do without a few of the zombie first-person shooters such as Left 4 Dead . 

Dead Island is no exception, being one of the most anticipated game of the year, the pressure of being a top notch title was on as nearing it's release, a lot of hype was generated with it but did it live up to its expectations? Some might argue that Dead Island falls short on being an excellent game but from a zombie genre stand point of view, I have sincerely felt that it had captured the essence of a zombie game.

Trapped on a tropical island, players explore a rich environment where safety is the least of their concern as they must navigate through zombie infested pathways and perform tasks that involve mutilating the undead without a care. What I personally enjoyed was the detailed world of Dead Island, no place feels the same as players uncover new and interesting areas ranging from a variety of places such as a tropical resort, an underground bunk, an urban city, a sewer and a prison.

However, there are some faults to be picked at such as the lack of a proper story and uninteresting AI, the list goes on but to sum it up, Dead Island is an excellent game at depicting the world of the undead but it is not a perfect masterpiece like every other game, it has its flaws.

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One of the most anticipated post-apocalyptic zombie drama showing across networks, The Walking Dead is one of the rare instance where zombie and drama equates to a formula that will entice zombie fans and a whole new range of audience that wants something fresh off the television.

At first, it may not seem like a good idea to blend drama and a bunch of survivors in a post-apocalyptic zombie world due to it being repetitive and uninteresting. However, The Walking Dead takes on a whole new level by introducing characters which are deep and unassuming, seamlessly being with the series as it moves along rather than it being just part of the drama.

In season 1, audiences were introduced to a world where the worst was imagined and zombies roam the place freely. Deputy Rick Grimes, the protagonist of the series was awaken in a hospital to find himself in a whole new world where he has to fend off zombies and avoid being lunched upon. In search for his wife and kids, he goes on revisiting his past in a different environment and faces difficult choices which affects people that he chances upon. As episodes go by, a more complex circle of people were introduced and the bond or rather hatred that they have for one another plays an important role in their survival because zombies are sometimes not their only enemies, human can be too.

The Walking Dead is an excellent drama in terms of depicting a world where killing zombies is not the only objective but rather surviving in a realistic scenario. For more news on The Walking Dead, head on to http://www.thewalkingdeadblog.com/ for the latest updates.

In the world of the Zombies, nobody is safe, not even the living dead. Come to think of it, it is a gruesome world to live in, a world filled with brain eating entities trying to grab a hold of you and tear your internals apart, sounds terrible isn't it? People of the modern world have learnt to appreciate the fact that it is not so bad after all, appreciating the art behind the brain eating humans, dozens of films spawned to pay homage to the fact that one of the days, a post-apocalyptic world full of the living dead might actually come to realization. But now, all we have are films, and already, it is enough to keep the lot feeling disgusted.

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So, here we explore the 10 of my favourite zombie films.. starting with:

10. Braindead

Lionel, a Mama's boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. He ends up falling in love with a local woman who believes that they're destined together. In a moment of intentional sabotage of one of their dates, his mother is bitten by a mysterious creature that ends up zombifying her. It's only a matter of time before she rises from the dead a powerful, bloodthirsty zombie. It's only a matter of time before she starts infecting residents of the town and Lionel has to stop her...and them.


9. Resident Evil

A virus has escaped in a secret facility called "The Hive," turning the staff into hungry zombies and releasing the mutated Lab "Animals" that they were studying. The complex computer shuts down the base to prevent infection. The parent corporation sends in an elite military unit, where they meet Alice, who is suffering from amnesia due to exposure to nerve gas. The military team must shut down the computer and get out, fighting their way past zombies, mutants, and the computer itself, before the virus escapes and infects the rest of the world. Alice must also come to terms with her slowly-returning memories.

8. Dead Snow

A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.

7. The Crazies

As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival.

6. Zombieland

Searching for family. In the early twenty-first century, zombies have taken over America. A shy and inexperienced college student in Texas has survived by following his 30 rules: such as "look in the back seat," "double-tap," "avoid public restrooms." He decides to travel to Ohio to see if his parents are alive. He gets a ride with a boisterous zombie-hating good-old boy headed for Florida, and soon they confront a young woman whose sister has been bitten by a zombie and wants to be put out of her misery. The sisters were headed to an LA amusement park they've heard is zombie free. Can the kid from Ohio get to his family? And what about rule thirty one?


5. 28 Days Later

Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature.

4. Deadgirl

Two high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.

3. Shaun of the Dead

Shaun doesn't have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse... But for him, it's an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive... And get his ex back.

2. 28 Weeks Later

In the country nearby London, Don, his wife Alice and a few survivors live hidden in a farmhouse. When infected people break in the house, Don panics and does not help his wife to escape, running away and leaving Alice trapped inside the room. Twenty eight weeks after the outbreak that annihilated the population of Great Britain, London is considered safe and the British survivors return under the coordination of the American Army, that keeps the city under permanent surveillance. The teenager Tammy and her younger brother Andy travel back from Spain to live with their father Don in London. They miss their mother and decide to escape to their old house to retrieve pictures and some other personal belongings. However, they find Alice surprisingly alive and the Army brings her to the base. After some blood test, the biologist Scarlet discovers that Alice is a carrier of the lethal virus and somehow has immunity to it...

And the number one spot goes to..

Dawn of the Dead

Ana, a young beautiful nurse finishes her day-shift at the hospital to return home to her beloved husband, they make love and sleep together. The next day, after her husband is killed by her neighbor next door, he suddenly comes back to life. She discovers the chaos happening in her neighborhood and escapes from her home. Soon after coming to her senses in the woods, she encounters a cop and other survivors, they decide to find safety in a mall. Soon more survivors come, and they learn that if they want to stay alive, they should stick together as the world is overrun by an army of undead. Can they survive the horror in this horrific global chaos? When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.

So there you have it, top 10 favourite zombie films, storyline courtesy of imdb.com and the respective author who wrote it.