World War Z – first impressions

I’m going out on a limb here and predicting that over 95% of the people reading this post have some kind of a survival plan for when the inevitable zombie apocalypse comes around. Whether that’s grabbing the decorative samurai sword on your wall and dashing to save your mates/family/ girlfriend, turning your bachelor pad into an impenetrable fortress, or jumping into your Nissan Micra and heading for the hills we know that you’ve thought about it and so have we. That’s why we were super excited to see this new trailer for ‘World War Z’.

Brad Pitt plays the lead and though we don’t want to re-iterate the bleedin’ obvious here there are a lot of zombies. Not only does this make World War Z visually impressive but adds a level of immediacy that a lot of other zombie genres just don’t cover. Most deal with the aftermath of the apocalypse scenario, of protagonists surviving after the worst has hit rather than being in the thick of it and trying to escape amongst hundreds of others when it actually kicks off. Between the lads at Avant-Garde we’ve clocked up some serious hours of gameplay on zombie survival horror and watched every Z-movie but even with our extensive survival ‘knowledge’, if the shit were to go down like it does in this trailer, just from the pure onslaught of numbers all that would probably be for naught.

You’d be damn lucky to get your arse out of there, but what’s the worst thing to have with you when all this is happening? Yup your family; they’ll just slow you down and all you’ll want when the panic hits is to get them the hell out of there. How’d they figure into your initial plan eh? Makes this zombie swarm just that bit more extreme and dramatic, and lends a new perspective to a much covered genre.

World War Z comes out July 2013 and we’re very much looking forward to it but if like us you can’t wait we recommend the book that it’s based on to tide you over. Written as a collection of interviews with survivors and covering the beginnings, development and aftermath World War Z: An oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks is enthralling, original and quite simply one of the best tellings of a zombie apocalypse we’ve come across. In scope it goes above and beyond all expectations, and though some story’s may seem a bit silly others are scarily accurate in predicting just how people and nations would react when torn between loyalties and survival. Every interview will draw you in, entertain and lend a small piece to a much bigger story being told. ‘Dead’ good.

Angelic Rogue

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