My second point is all these games coming out that use a post-apocolyptic environment.  I suppose it's a good setting to think about because it could be our future one of these days but I'm sure there's better environments to think of.  What about a dense jungle where you hunt an alien with super weapons and all you have are your wits, M16 and later a bow with grenade arrows (any Predator fans out there?).

To my surprise when I played Fallout 3 in the biggest post-apocolyptic environment I've played in I found zombies there too!  Technically called "Ghouls" but they had the same backstory as typical zombies do.  I was too engrossed in the great gameplay of Fallout to realize this massive cliche but I suppose you can't have a nuked wasteland without zombies, it works better than the virus story right?

In all seriousness, mass quantities of zombie games give the video game generation some knowledge on how to survive a zombie outbreak.  We also learn how to survive after a nuclear war so there's more to these games than what we may think.  I find most to be very enjoyable even if there are a lot of them.  What do you all think?  Too many or too little zombie/post-apocolyptic games?  Does it really matter or do we just want to grab our pump shotguns and aim for the head?