What I would like to discuss is how long it will take before dressing up like a "zombie" becomes the current fashion fad? People dress up like vampires and such, so why not zombies?

Zombiewear could be the new clothing line. Zombie make-up, Zombie Food, its all good!

BRAINS!!!!!

I don't care for today's zombies. I like mine the old-fashioned way -- slow and plodding, leaving little bits of their rotting selves on the ground as they come after you.

Zombies are just the latest cliche. But it's not the zombies themselves that are popular -- note it's the survival situations that the player gets put into that really succeed, like Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead, and the options because slaughtering zombies is socially acceptable.

I am a fan of zombie movies, yet even I can see that the whole thing is getting very close to hitting maximum exposure.

The thing about in game enemies that that it is always more important to me how they act, not what they are.

What drives me a bit crazy about this generation is that we have seen few real improvements in AI. Left 4 Dead's success in the area of AI gets a bit overshadowed by the fact that it is a zmobie game, and that is a bit sad.

I am waiting for enemies to have more realistic 'lives'. I am waiting for the day when I can play a game like Uncharted 2, and not feel like the enemies have been posed and programed in just the right way to have the game show you where to go.

Batman also made some good strides in the ways you could monitor the enemies feelings and how they were feeling would help predict their actions.

I will say it again. I wish that this generation was more concerned with what enemies do instead of what they are.

I don't even know how to begin to describe how sick I am of zombies. I don't know how it is for everyone else, but every hipster in the Philadelphia is obsessed with zombies and seem to entertain this idea that this interest makes them somehow distinct.

That, fixed-gear bikes, and shitty, greasy haircuts that look like they were administered by blind, metally handicapped babies in a pitch-dark room using spoons as their cutting implements.

Mention a name like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, or even George Romero however, and you'll generally be met with blank stares.

Ugh, I'm working my anger to a lather here. Jason is right. Zombies are just the latest fad in video games and pop-culture at large. Hopefully one that will end soon.

James- You are right, it is absolutely crazy that zombies can be so huge right now, yet you do not see guys like Fulci and Romero getting the props they deserve.

Of course that may be because, for a guy like Romero, the new stuff is simply better than what they can produce now.

It is so sad how much games, and also pop culture, flock to something and overdo it. From platformers, to World War II games, to now zombies, it really seems like the 'creative' minds out there are not nearly as creative as they would like to think.

The worst part is that the bad ones dim the success of the good ones. Just look at Zombie Apocalypse next to Left 4 Dead. One sucks and it is bad attempt at a 'me too,' the other is probably the height of a current trend.

It is so sad.

Of course, we should probably be happy that we are onto zombies now, and not Army of Two's horribly stereotypical pseudo-Muslim enemies.

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@James Hipsters with zombie clothes? Maybe there is something good about livin' in the 'burbs after all....

@Jason Pretty grim right?

I agree with Jason Wilson. I like my zombies slow and shambling. You might be able to fun faster but they are somehow always right behind you. They may be slow and dumb, but they have force gruesome, brain gobbling numbers.

Zombies only bother me when they make no damn sense in a game. Zombies in a shopping mall? I'm there. Nazi zombies thrown into the mix to cash in on a fad? No thanks.