This is an excellent wee game that should keep you going for ages - great graphics and sounds and watch out for that Zomboni!
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Yes, I play it on-line, usually very badly 
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That vid is from the XBox version. The PC version is better.
The release date for L4D2 is 17Nov. If you pre-purchase on Steam it's 10% off and you get an "exclusive" melee baseball bat weapon (and early access to the demo). Even with 10% off it's not cheap - 34.19 Euros, or you can buy L4D1 & 2 together for 49.98.
L4D2 has made a lot of people in the community very angry. It's coming out just 12 months after L4D1 and many think that Valve are taking the piss, as it doesn't seem to be very different from the first game, which they promised to support for years. Many feel that this should have been downloadable content for L4D1 (even if not free DLC) rather than a new, full-price game, and that it will split the community. There are schemes to boycott buying it.
.That vid is from the XBox version. The PC version is better.
The release date for L4D2 is 17Nov. If you pre-purchase on Steam it's 10% off and you get an "exclusive" melee baseball bat weapon (and early access to the demo). Even with 10% off it's not cheap - 34.19 Euros, or you can buy L4D1 & 2 together for 49.98.
L4D2 has made a lot of people in the community very angry. It's coming out just 12 months after L4D1 and many think that Valve are taking the piss, as it doesn't seem to be very different from the first game, which they promised to support for years. Many feel that this should have been downloadable content for L4D1 (even if not free DLC) rather than a new, full-price game, and that it will split the community. There are schemes to boycott buying it.
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Best Approach for Avoiding Zombies:
If trapped by the staggering undead, physics could help
When Woody Harrelson escapes the living dead in the new movie Zombieland, should he head for the hills or the mall? A recently published research paper suggests that he's probably better off hiding in the mall to save his delicious brain.If trapped by the staggering undead, physics could help
The world is full of things that move in zombie-like fashion, such as particles flowing through a turbulent fluid or the unpredictable price changes of the stock market, so physicists seek insight into this behavior by creating so called "random walking" models. Physicist Davide Cassi at the Università di Parma in Italy looked at how long an entity hiding in a complex structure could survive if being pursued by predatory random walkers. Cassi's paper, recently published in the journal Physical Review E, is the first to describe a general principle of a prey’s likelihood to survive over time while hiding in an irregular structure.
Although the paper itself does not specifically refer to fleeing from zombies, it describes "the survival probability of immobile targets annihilated by random walkers." The conclusions suggest that the people trapped in a mall in Dawn of the Dead may be better off than the folks stuck in a farmhouse in Night of the Living Dead.
Cassi found that the likelihood of survival when threatened by predatory random walkers is closely related to how complex the prey’s hideout is. The more twists and turns, the safer you'll be. In structures that are highly complex and irregular, the chances of the predator coming into contact with its target shrinks down to almost zero.
Cassi formulates a model to describe the behavior of randomly moving particles as they travel through maze-like networks. He said that his work could apply to a wide variety of situations including the distribution of information through the internet and medicine spreading through the human body.
"There are a lot of applications of these results in a lot of fields of sciences," Cassi said. "The most amazing field of applications of these results are in biology, biochemistry and other organisms."
So remember, when the zombies come, flee to the biggest shopping mall you can find and remember that, using zombie movies as a guide, the undead often win.
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I just watched a telesync of Zombieland (I normally don't bother, but read it was reasonable quality). Quality of image was mediocre. Sound was fine. Film - 10/10! This is one of my fave films ever. I want to see this at the cinema, and will buy it on DVD.
Think of a cross between Natural Born Killers, Fight Club and (especially in the last 20 mins) Left 4 Dead...
Lovely!
Think of a cross between Natural Born Killers, Fight Club and (especially in the last 20 mins) Left 4 Dead...
Lovely!
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Zombie films: why we're obsessed with the undead
An American university is offering a new class on zombies. The course is being offered by the University of Baltimore and will be taught by the author Arnold Blumberg, who wrote a book on zombie movies, and the curator of Geppi’s Entertainment museum, which specialises in American pop culture. Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics.
Zombies were ushered in with the Haitian vodoun chillers White Zombie (1932)...
..and I Walked with a Zombie (1943)...
...before evolving into the racially-unspecific, shuffling, moaning hordes we now recognise in George A Romero's seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Zombies are gregarious beasts. Because they lack the power of independent thought, filmmakers have latched on to them as embodiments of the herd mentality: Romero especially saw the potential for allegory here. His great Dawn of the Dead (1978), remade for a different age by Zack Snyder in 2004, had them overrunning an abandoned shopping mall, drifting up and down the escalators to anaesthetising musak, like every chain store's ideal customer
Zombies have a virulent way with a franchise, from the video-game derived Resident Evil series...
...to 28 Days Later...
...and 28 Weeks Later...
...not forgetting 2004's Shaun of The Dead...
...and Charlie Brooker's Big-Brother-with-zombs E4 thriller Dead Set
Some of Hollywood's best-known directors cut their teeth (so to speak) on zombie films. Sam Raimi was just 21 when he made The Evil Dead (1981)...
...Raimi went on to make several sequels, including 1992's Army Of Darkness, before becoming one of Hollywood's most bankable directors, responsible for the Spider-Man trilogy
Peter Jackson is another Hollywood fixture who made zombie films earlier in his career. The effects in 1992's Braindead, also known as Dead Alive, are a million miles away from the CGI in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
In 1983, Michael Jackson and John Landis brought us dancing zombies in Thriller, considered by many as the greatest pop video ever made.
The 2009 film Zombieland - starring Jessie Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson with a cameo by Bill Murray - drew comparisons with Shaun Of The Dead for its slapstick treatment of horror
2008's Zombie Strippers starred Robert Englund (from endless Nightmare on Elm Street films) and Jenna Jameson (from endless adult films). The film's plot is summed up in its title.
Zibahkhana, also known as Hell's Ground, was Pakistan's first gore film. The ultra-low-budget film's title is Urdu for Slaughterhouse.
The latest genre mash-up in the works is a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - 15 per cent written by Seth Grahame-Smith, whose previous books include How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn, and 85 per cent by some upstart called Jane Austen. It keeps all the main characters from her best-loved novel, but adds a few who aren't alive, don't speak, and would presumably rather eat the Bennet sisters than propose to them.
--------------An American university is offering a new class on zombies. The course is being offered by the University of Baltimore and will be taught by the author Arnold Blumberg, who wrote a book on zombie movies, and the curator of Geppi’s Entertainment museum, which specialises in American pop culture. Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics.
Zombies were ushered in with the Haitian vodoun chillers White Zombie (1932)...
..and I Walked with a Zombie (1943)...
...before evolving into the racially-unspecific, shuffling, moaning hordes we now recognise in George A Romero's seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Zombies are gregarious beasts. Because they lack the power of independent thought, filmmakers have latched on to them as embodiments of the herd mentality: Romero especially saw the potential for allegory here. His great Dawn of the Dead (1978), remade for a different age by Zack Snyder in 2004, had them overrunning an abandoned shopping mall, drifting up and down the escalators to anaesthetising musak, like every chain store's ideal customer
Zombies have a virulent way with a franchise, from the video-game derived Resident Evil series...
...to 28 Days Later...
...and 28 Weeks Later...
...not forgetting 2004's Shaun of The Dead...
...and Charlie Brooker's Big-Brother-with-zombs E4 thriller Dead Set
Some of Hollywood's best-known directors cut their teeth (so to speak) on zombie films. Sam Raimi was just 21 when he made The Evil Dead (1981)...
...Raimi went on to make several sequels, including 1992's Army Of Darkness, before becoming one of Hollywood's most bankable directors, responsible for the Spider-Man trilogy
Peter Jackson is another Hollywood fixture who made zombie films earlier in his career. The effects in 1992's Braindead, also known as Dead Alive, are a million miles away from the CGI in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
In 1983, Michael Jackson and John Landis brought us dancing zombies in Thriller, considered by many as the greatest pop video ever made.
The 2009 film Zombieland - starring Jessie Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson with a cameo by Bill Murray - drew comparisons with Shaun Of The Dead for its slapstick treatment of horror
2008's Zombie Strippers starred Robert Englund (from endless Nightmare on Elm Street films) and Jenna Jameson (from endless adult films). The film's plot is summed up in its title.
Zibahkhana, also known as Hell's Ground, was Pakistan's first gore film. The ultra-low-budget film's title is Urdu for Slaughterhouse.
The latest genre mash-up in the works is a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - 15 per cent written by Seth Grahame-Smith, whose previous books include How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn, and 85 per cent by some upstart called Jane Austen. It keeps all the main characters from her best-loved novel, but adds a few who aren't alive, don't speak, and would presumably rather eat the Bennet sisters than propose to them.
Zombie Strippers? Why has no one told me about this?!
