A history of zombies in video games

We've put together the following timeline that examines the most important titles depicting zombies from the last 25 years

2008: Dead Space



A New Breed of "Zombie"

Visceral Games (EA Redwood Shores at the time) releases Dead Space for the PS3, the Xbox 360, and PC. Dead Space features one of the least traditional depictions of zombies: Necromorphs, which are humans who transformed into undead abominations after becoming infected by an alien virus. Whether or not you can classify Dead Space's Necromorphs as "zombies" is debatable.

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