Sentences with phrase «on zombie characters»

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Do the Zombies see such intertwining of love's highs and low - downs as the tragically monstrous character of humanity's sexuality — a perennial trait, albeit one only recently reactivated on a wide scale after a long and unnatural cultural hibernation — that we simply have to learn to live with?

It's not about the thrills of killing zombies, this game focuses on the realtionships between characters in a zombie apocalypse scenario, and makes you see how ordinary people can get along (and indeed fall out) in this scenario.

These guys have good writers and the TellTale engine supports doing that; writing directly to gamers a zombie movie in so many parts is successful and this is one of the few games I'm on my second time through and limited it may be replay wise I just love the different ways to get my characters killed and chose to slay.

Medina, a Bronx - born comedian who plays the film's aggressively stereotyped Mexican character, counters with a précis on the problem with Lee's self - described «existential parody»: «People that like titties and zombies pretty much don't give a fuck about commentary.»

The DLC is available on the Xbox Games Store on Xbox Live and introduces a new character taking down zombies while «fighting to keep her group of survivors safe from a sinister government plot.»

The «last man on earth» approach doesn't quite apply to «28 Weeks Later,» if only because there are far too many characters, although it does have a creepy, cluttered vibe all its own, and anytime a helicopter is used to decapitate dozens of bloodthirsty zombies, we're happy.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Audiences can not live on metaphor alone, even when the metaphor is as smart and all - consuming as the one that informs the narrative, characters and themes of this seemingly familiar zombie flick.

Forster and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof have taken what used to be a character - driven zombie story, ripped out its brain and heart, and left it as nothing but a stumbling corpse kept alive on life support with a blockbuster budget.

The player's character arrives on the island weeks after the initial virus outbreak that turned everyone into zombies.

«The Girl with All the Gifts» is based on a book of the same, where the writer most likely stole a few pages out of «The Walking Dead» playbook, incorporating emotion, character study, and morality into the zombie genre.

Each player takes the role of Chuck, the game's main character - but they can completely customize the look of their character as they take on hordes of zombies together.

Characters constantly get hung up on architecture, on each other, or get stun - locked by zombies they could have easily walked around.

The newly revealed partner character is a trucker named Dick, who's trying to piggyback on Nick Ramos» expert zombie - killing to get the heck out of the overrun city of Los Perdidos.

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.

Death Road to Canada is the latest lovechild of that stylistic blend, as this retro - styled, narrative - heavy game features random characters going on a frantic car ride from Florida to Canada amidst a zombie apocalypse.

You explore, you go on simple missions, you kill or avoid zombies who are actually pretty tough, and you scavenge for all sorts of insane items that you can use to craft objects like firecrackers, which you can use to lure zombies where you want them to go, and upgrade your character in the three skill lines of Agility, Power, and Survival.

The second person on the list to play a character named Bilbo, Freeman is currently A-Listing like a mofo, but before he went of to slay a dragon or hang out with Sherlock, he was popping up in Wright's zombie and cop flicks.

The «Nazi Zombies» mode will be released alongside the game on November 3 and the team has been working to make a «frightening world full of terrifying characters and events that will make you jump and look over your shoulder.»

Added to this are several customizable options and gametypes which can add buffs to zombies and player - characters, timed challenges on the global leaderboards, and for the first time in series history, bot support.

If only he could deliver when the film needs that shot of adrenaline for the action scenes as he fails to connect us to the immediacy of the moment as characters get overrun by avalanches of poorly - animated CGI zombie hordes while keeping the focus on Gerry, the one character we're all but assured is safe.

Per the ESRB on Dead Rising 2: Case West: «One game area - a lounge with neon «XXX» and «Love» signs on the walls - depicts a «massager» item shaped like a sex toy; players can use the item to strike zombies and human characters.»

While we're on the subject, here's some more numbers: Minigore 2: Zombies will pack in 50 different enemy types, in addition to seven boss fights and will launch with 20 unlockable characters.

Coins can also be spent on a variety of goofy gear for your customized plant and / or zombie characters.

Shooting on location in Ghana allows The Dead to remove its characters from the zombie genre's typical holed up location and uses the vast, gorgeous African landscape to its tremendous advantage.

WHY: «Life After Beth» is a terrible movie, a dead - on - arrival zombie comedy that's just as much in need of some brains as its title character.

His previous work includes Frances McDormand's artist husband in FARGO, the cross-dressing brother of the title character on The Drew Carey Show, Twisty the Clown on American Horror Story, Lyndon B. Johnson in JACKIE, and a strikingly humane survivor of the zombie apocalypse on THE WALKING DEAD.

That is the big draw here Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare on top of the diverse and fun character classes, the good balance of classes and abilities and weapons, and the customization... the maps for the different modes are very well done.

The director's talent for devising grotesque zombie encounters remains sharp and often witty, but his cast is short on charisma, and veteran Canadian character actor Kenneth Welsh, playing one of the islanders now in exile, is so aggressively colorful you'll want to throw water on him.

Design: Vibrant, fun and simple to navigate, this site makes it easy for users to find desired content — whether it's a Bill Gates lecture on coding or instructions on writing your first computer program with the characters from Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies.

The zombie apocalypse has hit (as we all knew it would one day) which characters from books, movies or TV do you want on your team?

But just blasting zombies doesn't really cut it, and so you'll have to undertake a considerable number of quests to advance the game, as well as character quests which are seemingly optional at first but turn out to be required later on.

I don't mind the whole wannabe zombie thing again, but this game even uses the same types of specific characters (chainsaw - wielding zombies, for example) which really turned me off on top of the crappy controls... innovation is subjective, as we see.

Hop on the back of your giraffe, Sparkles, and discover 105 levels across five whimsical worlds filled with unique quests and characters, including zombie pirate cats, post-apocalyptic dinosaurs and hot dogs that poop explosive mines.

Adjustments - Timing shortened from being downed to rising, rising into a movement, mid-air quick recovery, jumping, dashing, moving (on ground or midair), attacking, or guarding - Awakening: Fixed bug where attacks at very close range came from unguardable angles; these can now be guarded - Dash Combo: Fixed bug where Tag Combos weren't counted for achievement purposes unless landed on a foe who was incapacitated by a Tag Combo - Brynhildr (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Ares (Summon Special Move 1): Removed hitbox between Ares and spear that appeared right after throwing a spear - Odin (melee mode, neutral melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Odin (melee mode, side melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Grim Reaper (Special Move 2): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time for zombies when targeting foes as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Grim Reaper (Down + Special Move 2): Fixed bug where dog zombies occasionally didn't face the correct direction while moving - Grim Reaper (Awakened, Character Ability Power) Added fire effect to characters who take damage after being hit by a zombie ball when Grim Reaper is in fire zombie ball mode - Ra (bomb mode, Special Move 1): Bombs can now be destroyed by enemy attack - Ra (ranged / bomb mode, Special Move 1): Changed reload when out of ammo to constant reload - Slayer (Melee Attack, Down + Melee Attack branch): Reduced freeze time upon landing on the ground - Slayer (upper Melee Attack): Reduced movement speed when pursuing foes - Slayer: Reduced turning radius when moving to attack - Loki (Special Move 1): Fixed bug so Grim Reaper's Special Move 1 zombies, Ra's Special Move 1 bombs, etc. are now drawn in - Loki (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Loki (Special Move 2): Fixed move so that Loki isn't motionless while charging.

One big difference is that the zombie realm of Dite features characters by Silent Hill's designer, so the world takes on a nightmarish quality that goes beyond the usual zombie hordes.

Whilst playing I soon realised if more than one zombie attacks you at the same time your character freezes or slows down to a point you can't retreat and end up dying, on top of that the general flow whilst playing feels rather clunky and unfinished, you should be able to see that by my preview video above.

But it's the other documented technical faults — zombies clipping into the environment, save files corrupting upon connecting with multiplayer servers, game refusing to play at all after equipping a hat on a certain character — which limited my ability to play this game in time for review.

The player controls a survivor in the zombie apocalypse in London, the player's character were to die then that character will be permanently dead, the player then takes on the role of a new survivor.

The trailer has us following one of the main characters on the hunt on what looks to be a zombie that quickly turns into something far worse.

Launching in North America on April 23, 2013, Dead Island Riptide brings more epic zombie thriller action to fans with additional gameplay mechanics, all - new gorgeous locales to explore, more types of zombies to provide constant threats, an additional character class and the best co-operative zombie action experience in gaming.

Zombies can group up on your character easily at some points to where you can become overwhelmed.

The zombies will rush the characters, so be prepared to blast the first one on the left for sure since he will be the closest.

You and your friends will take on one of these four characters unfortunate enough to find themselves stranded in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.

Fighting zombies depends heavily on how experienced your character is, as well as what you're using, and how many zombies you're fighting.

With intense action and an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, Dead Rising 4, delivers a heart pounding experience as players explore, scavenge and fight to survive in an open world sandbox on the brink of the next zombie apocalypse

It gives the character more humanity than any other character put up on a pedestal and makes sense in the context of this rich and zombie - filled world.

This colorful Diablo clone sends player characters on a globe - hopping trek to find treasure while avoiding Indiana Jones - like traps and battling zombies, pyramid monsters, vampires, and the occasional ninja.