Left 4 Dead stands out in the timeline for being one of the first games to actively encourage co-operative play for players to avoid being overrun
by armies of the undead.
Not exact matches
Before getting into how spectacular the action sequences truly are (and trust me, they save the blockbuster from plundering to the bottom
of the ocean), it must be said that Oscar - nominated Kon - Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg have no idea whose story the movie should actually belong to, starting out as Henry Turner's (Brenton Thwaites) quest to free his cursed father at sea Will Turner (Orlando Bloom in a glorified cameo along with Keira Knightley as his partner Elizabeth Swann) to locate the Trident
of Poseidon subsequently lifting that curse, and while the ultimate goal
of the movie for all characters is finding said artifact for different reasons,
by the end it's hard to fault the audience if they have forgotten all about that plot element and are just living in the moment
of Jack Sparrow and company battling an
army of decomposing,
undead ghost pirates led
by Captain Salazar.
Literally everything — Emperor Han, the
undead armies, yetis (yes, I said yetis), the car chases and a great many
of the fights — are aided
by a farm
of supercomputers.
Up - and - comer Lily James, formerly
of Downton Abbey and now currently wowing in the BBC's mounting
of War and Peace, takes the lead role
of Elizabeth Bennett, whose developing passion for the dashing Mr D'Arcy (Sam Riley) is not just defined
by the Edwardian customs that dictate her life, but the fact that she must face off against an
army of the
undead.
No longer cursed as an
undead member
of the Black Pearl, Jack is soon hunted
by the legendary Davy Jones (here played
by Bill Nighy, and not the famous Monkee
of the same name), an octopus - faced pirate leading an
army of fellow Crustaceans to whom Jack owes a blood debt requiring a hundred years
of service on his ship, the Flying Dutchman.
So, you take on the role
of Vulcan, a Powder Master for legendary mercenary company the Freeborn Blades who taken a contract to defend a group called the Red Scribes as they perform a magical ritual in the hopes that it may give them a way to defeat the incoming
undead army, which is commanded
by a group known as the Ice Lords.
Previously available on Steam, Nazi Zombie
Army transformed the Sniper Elite formula
by pitting player versus waves
of the
undead.
The story unfolds as an international team peels back the vile layers
of a malevolent plot masterminded
by the Axis powers to harness unimaginable occult forces and create an invincible
undead army.
Having witnessed an unstoppable horde
of zombies envelop and destroy Kraval, a remarkably large city
of demons now overrun
by an even more remarkably large
undead army, the Dark Elves became entranced with the potential power
of the swarm.