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The other, more silent half of Penn & Teller released this short film about surviving a zombie apocalypse, which is surprisingly eerie to watch. I imagine this as a real-live account of one (markedly astute) man's observations of a world gone brainless.
Also, it's funny.
I, as I'm sure many of you are, am a zombie fanatic. I've got the survival guide, I'm familiar with the works of Romero, and should the zombie apocalypse hit (and you can be sure it will some day) I have my route carefully mapped and a bag packed and ready to go. The one thing I've been missing was a quality zombie game for the long ride out to the countryside bunker.
Thankfully, the people at Ignition Entertainment have stepped up to fill the zombie shaped hole in my heart, announcing the arrival of Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys! in North America Spring '08. Teenage Zombies is a side scroller in which you play a group of zombified teenagers out to save the world from a group of evil alien brain people. The human race having been easily enslaved (aren't we always?), the teenage zombies and their lust for gray matter are the only things shuffling and moaning between us and total annihilation.
The game is presented in the only way a game about zombie teenagers saving the Earth from alien brains could be, with a healthy dose of whimsical parody. It also features a bevy of minigames and puzzles (as all DS games are bound to do by blood oath) utilizing all features of the DS. Personally, I'll be interested to see how the mic comes into place in a zombie game.
Sexualcabinetry considers his own mortality while staring deep into the glassy eyed Innsmouth Horror what is Zombie Redenbacher.
Part of the fundamental basics we as a sentient race must understand is that death is a finality we must each endure. There is no way to get around it: death happens to us all, at a one in, one out ratio. Perhaps, then, it is sheer American hubris to apply the names of real people to corporate personhood. After all, Colonel Sanders is dead (of a heart attack, for sheer Hamartian irony), yet there is his grinning, beady eyed little face on every bucket of Original Recipe, staring at us, leering at us, with the mocking teeth of Death himself.
Through the magic of Youtube, we can even see a rare piece of Americana: The Colonel dancing with a time traveling Michael Jackson on the Lawrence Welk show.
Of course, when Colonel Sanders passed on to the great PETA rally in the sky, it was only a matter of time until chicken sales began to drop. Everything was tried. KFC began a number of campaigns during the late 70s thru the early 90s, trying to find an approach that would stick like gravy to the side of a Lil' Bucket.
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Have you ever wanted to see your work published online? Have you ever wanted to share your opinions about video games with more than just your hamster and little sister? Have you ever wanted to help out with the most awesome website and podcast ever?
Well now you can!
Here at The Weekly Geek, we are starting a new Freelance Review system. What it boils down to is this: You submit a game review to me, I check it out and edit any of your horrible little spelling and grammer errors, and then I post it on The Weekly Geek website for all the world to see.
We have a few guidelines for you to follow for submission. First, we'd like you to follow our basic video game review format. The way we review games is 4 main categories:
Overview, which gives a basic rundown of the game, the plot, the goals, and what you're supposed to do.
Shininess, which looks at how "shiny" the game is. Basically, the asthetics of the game. This covers graphics, music, animation, etc.
Funness, which is how fun the game is to play. This covers gameplay, replay value, controls, etc.
And finally, Worthiness, which is used to determine what the game is worth to a gamer. No silly "7 out of 10!" crap. That doesn't mean anything to anyone. We generally use this category to talk about if the game is worth buying, renting, trying out at a friend's house, avoiding altogether, etc. It's like the other bookend that the Overview started.
Check out a good sample review from our very own Frodo to get a general idea of how it works.
I will run some basic proofreading on your review and make sure it's decent enough for the site. No "omg this game is teh sux" here. I also may change a word or two to make it flow better or whatever. I will not change the content of your review.
It's also pretty much first come, first serve. If you're the first to submit a review for a game and it passes inspection, your review will be the one that goes up. If you didn't get it first but think your review is WAY better, then do a new review for a different game and make it just as good as your other one! Also, if it's a game that one of our site staff was planning to review, then we get first dibs.
So if you'd like to write an awesome review for the site, just shoot it over in an email to me and I'll check it out! Oh, and make sure you give me the name you'd like the review posted under. It can be your real name or a pseudonym.
To start us off, we've got a review of Dead Rising for the Xbox 360 from DoubleHawk. Click the jump to check it out!
In 2004, The Geek and Frodo watched a brilliant man peddle his comic book Robots R' Cool, Zombies R' Jerks in the special features of Comic Book: The Movie. That man was Devin T. Quin, and he was basically begging to be interviewed by The Weekly Geek. This is that interview. Enjoy.
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