In Demon / Dark Souls like fashion, you're able to leave messages to help other players out in the harsh zombie infested universe, whilst you'll occasionally come across other players as zombies, and by killing them you're able to steal their items, providing they were carrying any at the point that
they became zombified, which is another nice twist.
Not exact matches
There is something to Scott Foundas's contention that the movie reaches beyond the obvious 9/11 references to
become a comprehensive catalog of modern terrors: a river of corpses evokes Rwanda, mob scenes recall the urban riots of the tumultuous last century, the march of
zombified survivors an echo of the Holocaust.
He's great here as a father preparing himself for the inevitable after his daughter (Abigail Breslin)
becomes a victim of a
zombifying disease that has ravaged the planet.
Characters who initially seem poised to
become significant supporting players — among them Army Rangers James Badge Dale and Matthew Fox and rogue CIA operative David Morse — prove expendable, either by
becoming food for the encroaching zombie horde, or simply by virtue of the pic moving on to another locale: first a ghostly military base in South Korea that might be the source of the outbreak; then to Israel, where a senior Mossad agent (well played by Dutch filmmaker Ludi Boeken) may hold some additional clues; and finally a WHO research lab in Wales, where — in the pic's most elegantly crafted setpiece — Gerry and a handful of uninfected scientists enter into a careful cat - and - mouse game with the otherwise
zombified staff.
The only suspenseful element is whether the dad will have to kill his daughter before she
becomes undead and / or whether he'll be bitten and
zombified by her.
Should you manage to be killed by a zombie (which
becomes an increasingly annoying habit), you will then take control of a new survivor, and you'll have to find your
zombified previous character, and kill them if you want to get your equipment back.