The Greatest Video Game Ever Made! Yakuza vs. Zombies

I'm not a gamer and am generally not interested in it at all. But sometimes something comes out that makes even me laugh. The game is called, "Yakuza: Of The End" 
This is fantastic! Check it out!

From Topless Robot:


Please imagine, if you will, the Grand Theft Auto videogame series -- imagine GTA4 in particular. You're Niko Bellic, running around committing crimes, causing mayhem, exploring Liberty City, doing all the ridiculous stuff that Rockstar allows you to do. Now, imagine you're in the middle of the game, on your way to becoming a major crime lord or whatever -- and that's when the zombies attack. You might be tired of zombies in general, but you'd have to be impressed by Rockstar's willingness to subvert expectation, fuck with their best-selling series, and just be weird.

Not that Rockstar is doing this with Grand Theft Auto. Sega is doing this with its acclaimed Yakuza series.

Yes, Yakuza 4 -- or as it's now being called, Yakuza: Of the End -- starts like the other games in the series, with players as as a low-level Yakuza thug trying to work their way up in the organization, running a beautifully detailed and seedy underbelly of Tokyo, robbing shit, busting kneecaps, and messing around with myriad gambling options and visiting hostess clubs. And eventually, the dead start rising from their goddamn graves.

I've gotta admit; I'm impressed. I'm stunned at the big balls on Sega to take a chance like this, and I love the idea of a game that is built around there not being zombies -- suddenly getting overrun with zombies. That just sounds awesome to me. Look, if you don't believe me, watch the video and see for yourself -- see all the shit you can do before the first zombie even shambles onto the screen. Nice one, Sega. You can't make a Sonicgame for shit, but you're certainly willing to experiment.


Of course, I'm not going to leave you with just some sentences to read to take this guy's word for it....


Watch these two videos!


This is the trailer:





Here's 8 minutes of real game footage. This is hilarious!

Zombies in Japan?

This makes three days in a row that I've read something strange about Zombies.

Look at this from Weird Asia News:

As an island nation with the world's highest cremation rate, Japan looks like the ideal spot to ride out a global zombie pandemic, but one expert on the undead says this assumption is dangerously mistaken. Matt Mogk, Zombie Research Society (ZRS) founder and head researcher, believes Japan would be no safer than other countries in the event of a zombie outbreak and could be even more dangerous. Japan's tight border control, which last month denied entry to Paris Hilton, would offer some protection against hordes of rotting corpses brought back to life, but only provided the outbreak starts outside of Japan.

The article goes on with even more silliness:

“If the zombie sickness has a long incubation period, hundreds of millions of people could be infected for years, or even decades, without knowing,” said Mogk, who has been sinking his teeth into all things zombie for most of his life. “All we would need is the right trigger to launch an instant zombie pandemic everywhere at once. Japan would not be protected.”



ZRS, a non-profit organization with local chapters on six continents and in Japan, believes a zombie pandemic is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. And Mogk surmises the situation would be particularly bleak if “Z-Day” kicks off in Japan.

Aha! "Z-Day!" I think I've found the key to this. Please clue me in if you know, but now I'm guessing that this Zombie nonsense and this "Z-Day" is some sort of Halloween or Hollywood movie promotion.

Interesting concept. Who knows anymore just how to break into the market? I reckon this sort of weird news might be one effective, and fun, tool!

...........Er, I hope this is a merely a promotion!

Thanks to News on Japan