ZOMBIEGRINDER

December 9, 2005 10:53 PM

ZOMBIEGRINDER! Only a fat man with a shotgun survives the zombie apocalypse in this Abuse-like game with a death metal soundtrack.
posted by boo_radley (22 comments total)

Holy crap. That is loud.
posted by panoptican at 11:09 PM on December 9, 2005

Abuse is a classic. I used to play it while listening to The Prodigy's "The Fat of the Land" over and over in junior high school.

This is kinda fun. I guess its the only place I find that sort of death metal appropriate.
posted by thanatogenous at 11:11 PM on December 9, 2005

This kicks ass. Horrible to play with a touchpad, though. I love the changes in gameplay tempo that come with the music. Makes me want to dig out the old Cannibal Corpse and Napalm Death records!
posted by lemur at 11:15 PM on December 9, 2005

thanatogenous: I agree. The death metal isn't my normal genre either, but it works well with zombies. I got a kick out of the bullet time during the pauses, too.
posted by boo_radley at 11:31 PM on December 9, 2005

Makes me want to dig out the old Cannibal Corpse and Napalm Death records!

I already have. I mean, it is the Holiday season.
posted by thanatogenous at 11:31 PM on December 9, 2005 [1 favorite]

Dug the music. Dug the premise. Dug the graphics. Didn't last five seconds. I guess I'm not a gamer.
posted by brundlefly at 11:47 PM on December 9, 2005

Awesome. I like the integration of the music and the speed of play, I think that sort of thing will be exciting in games in the future, and I'm surprised how underutilized it is.
posted by thethirdman at 11:51 PM on December 9, 2005

I want to comment on how well the game is designed, the subtle interaction of all the elements, etc. But I'd rather keep playing it.
posted by ryoshu at 1:13 AM on December 10, 2005

Sadly, it isn't enough like Abuse to be, you know, fun.
posted by nmiell at 1:34 AM on December 10, 2005

I got to a level that had a song by "Carnivorous Erection" ... I think that means I won.
posted by thanatogenous at 1:49 AM on December 10, 2005

This kicks an indescribably vast amount of ass. Can we declare boo_radley the winner of Flash Friday yet?
posted by [expletive deleted] at 7:34 AM on December 10, 2005

And with the total votes tallied.....boo_radley is this week's winner!!
posted by Mr Bluesky at 8:21 AM on December 10, 2005

I meant every Flash Friday.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 9:17 AM on December 10, 2005

Is anyone else's keyboard not working in Firefox or IE?

It's very hard to kick zombie ass when you can't get more ammo.
posted by mindless progress at 9:20 AM on December 10, 2005

this is fuckin awesome
posted by philcliff at 9:43 AM on December 10, 2005

you had me at "abuse."
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 11:50 AM on December 10, 2005

my friend was just trying to convince me that this game was the best web-based zombie-killing fun one could have; i told him it didn't offer the manic craziness that one should really get from killing the undead.

zombiegrinder has proven my point quite nicely.

unfortunately, it's hard to control on my touchpad-based lapamatop, and i don't have a spare mouse lying around, but it's nice to know there's an excellent zombie-killing game out there, takin' it easy fer all us sinners.
posted by Lee Marvin at 12:03 PM on December 10, 2005

Although.. it's not as good as I wanted it to be. Abuse is a classic, and this is really fun for... a minute or so. But that said, it was really fun for that minute, thanks boo.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 12:05 PM on December 10, 2005

Last post, I just reminded myself of this. If any of you guys have half-life 2, check up on a mod called "No More Room In Hell" from time to time, it's a total conversion to a zombie battler where you have to barricade doors, fight hundreds of zombies with other people, etc. Looks badass. Right now the site's being redesigned, though.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 12:07 PM on December 10, 2005

Lee Marvin: your friend is correct. Another plug for the combined MoFi / MeFi Urban Dead team - if you want in, email me...
posted by blag at 5:34 PM on December 10, 2005

That was awesome. Its been a while since we had a game so fun... well since one like Sober Santa.
('tis the season).
posted by uni verse at 8:01 PM on December 10, 2005

There's a Mo/MeFi Urban Dead team? I've got a level 19 military dude holed up in a mall right now fighting the Ridleybank Z's, and I could be sippin' margharita's with you lot. Dang.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 8:12 PM on December 10, 2005