Zombies, more accurately called the walking dead, are reanimated corpses who feed on the living, and have become a ubiquitous video game enemy. They often move slowly, but can be deadly in large numbers, which is unfortunately how they tend to travel. Shotgun time!
So Resident Evil 4...Zombie Town or what? What about RE5? What, really, is a zombie? Can you be infected with Zombism? Maybe one just has that dang zombie parasite?
Settle this. I'm tired of removing and adding RE4 to zombies.
1. A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.
2.
a. A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse.
b. A corpse revived in this way.
3. One who looks or behaves like an automaton.
4. A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueur, and fruit juice.
In the RE games, the word Zombie is the literal meaning. Therefore, you could call someone in RE4 a zombie, but they would only be talking about their actions, and not what they really are.
Real Zombies = Corpse revived. Literally. RE4 Zombies = lifeless "zombies" of people who are actually parasite infected. Figuratively.
I hope I smothered this long-going debate with a pillow and suffocated it :)
Yeah, I would say that RE4 didn't feature zombies. Something similiar, definitiv automatons, and of course a bloodthirsty bunch. But not zombies in the classic sense...
On the other hand, you had some Zombies with knifes in Dead Rising too. And that were definitly zombies, but their infection rooted in some parasites too. And a virus or bacteria, as the common explanation is this days, where a zombie comes from and how it spreads the curse, is parasitic too.
So I can understand the argument, that RE4 featured zombies - but zombies usually don't get tangly plant-things coming out of their head, if you shoot it off...
RE4 has no Zombies in. Zombies are reanimated copses through supernatural or chemical means. Where as the parasite in RE4 take control of a person by taking over the nevus system of the host.
I have a hard time accepting the zombies in RE4 are zombies. THEY SPEAK SPANISH! If you can speak Spanish you are not a zombie period, maybe a ghoul but not a zombie.
Got one thing to say to this topic. Zombie...Or Not!
But really Vinny, this sounds like that Gamespot show with Alex Navarro. Anyway, Alex and that other guy came to the conclusion that their not zombies, they can communicate, they don't shamble, and they are inhabited by parasites.
I blame 28 Days Later. I think the Zombie Union watched that flick, saw those Zombies sprinting and leaping around like Lemur's on speed and demanded that their undead brothers and sisters be allowed tto cast off the shackles the world had imprisoned them in so that they could run wild and free like the wily mongoose of justice.
"I call them Ghouls, they seem to fit the profile of a Ghoul better."
I'll second that. "
I don't think either game uses the term ghoul but I think it's a good fit. To me a zombie is a resurrected corpse. Ghouls can be resurrected corpses but not all of the time. They are sometimes people that may show signs that would be out of place in a typical human (like feeling little or no pain) but also show some signs that are very common in humans (like speech.)
-I don't believe every one in the game was revived from the dead -they have bugs that pop of their head -they don't bite you -didn't Leon receive a vaccine for the parasite that was injected into him.
Driam said:
And they're not zombies; Leon specifically states that if you examine the first Ganado you kill in RE4. Nope. No zombie.
The first resident evils defined zombie pretty well, but as the series continues to grow the zombies are becoming more human. The resident evil plot is not the best to start out with but at least keep the slow but deadly zombies. The 4th one was just a bunch of crazy foreigners yelling at you and attacking you with pitchforks.
I remember this issue being brought up on Gamespot before. Still, it's like the whole Headcrab Zombie thing, they may not be true zombies but we got no other word for them.
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