Fresh water, thick clothing, matches, and an axe are a few things that are always good to be have handy when preparing for a zombie outbreak. We here at Modern Day Pirates want you to be prepared for a zombie filled month of fun, so we have cut through the hordes of zombie themed video games, board games, card games, DLCs, and some other assorted zombie theme activities to get you prepared for the inevitable zombie apocalypse this October.
Video Game: Dead Rising 2, released on September 28, Capcom once again serves up a gory zombie slaughter fest. The zombies that inhabit this world are all of the slow moving persuasion that aren’t very terrifying until there are twenty-seven of them in a football huddle on your chest. The biggest improvement this time around is the ability to create combo weapons from just about anything found around the city. Other improvements include a fantastic amount of zombies on the screen, a giant campaign map along with a new multiplayer mode. This game is a perfect to pick up some survival techniques for the inevitable outbreak.
Honorable Moans: Left for Dead 2, pretty much the antithesis of the Dead Rising series, fast zombies, frantic action and guns galore. The latest DLC came out on Tuesday that allows players to experience the flip side of the last DLC mission, “The Passing”.
DLC: The Zombie Island Of Doctor Ned for Borderlands. This DLC is the first expansion for one of the best FPS video games of 2009. It includes new quests, new loot and new enemies like were-skaags and kamikaze zombies. One of the side missions is to collects over one hundred zombie brains. The DLC is a fun and fast-paced, must have for anyone who loves zombies and comedy.
Honorable Moans: Red Dead Redemption Zombie Nightmare. This soon to be released add-on to Red Dead Redemption puts you back in the role of John Marston, out to find the cure for a horrible new disease that is ravaging the country side.
Movies: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead. Some classic while others are contemporary, all of these movies really focus on the human struggle in a dead world. We couldn’t chose one movie because they all have something remarkable to offer the genre.
Honorable Moans: Evil Dead 2, Dead Alive, Dead Snow. Seriously, don’t make us pick between Ash (house wares), Peter Jackson and Nazis zombies.
Comics: The Walking Dead. The comics focuses on Rick Grimmes, a small town sheriff from Kentucky and his struggle to keep a group of survivors alive during a zombie apocalypse. Gritty, real, black and white, this comic book really makes you wonder how humans and society would evolve or die after such a tragedy. Robert Kirkman has found new levels of brutality from both zombies and humans in his series “The Walking Dead” it is a must read for comic book fans and zombie fans alike.
Honorable Moans: Marvel Zombies. Imagine a world where the most powerful beings were turned in to the creatures whose hunger has driven them insane. A great “What If: universe but I wouldn’t take it past Marvel Zombies 1.
TV: The Walking Dead. Making it series premier on Halloween, Robert Kirkman’s award winning zombie comic book shambles into your hearts and living rooms. It hasn’t even premiered yet and it has already been green lit for a second season.
Honorable Moans: Ugly Americans. That has some zombies in it, right?
Board Game: “Last Night On Earth” The true zombie party board game. With up to six players on both the living and un-dead side. It comes packed with six game play modes that range from basic survival, defend the mansion and get out of town. There are five free downloadable missions from the website plus three expansion packs that are full of new pieces and missions.
Honorable moans: Zombie Fluxx. In the even changing world of Fluxx things just got a little more horrifying. One minute you’re attempting to get a chainsaw and find survivors then someone changes the rules and you’re attempting to make a baseball team full of zombies.
Real-Life: You need to make it your business to be in Asbury Park, New Jersey on October 30, 2010 because the third annual Zombie Walk will be attempting to beat the World Record for most zombies in one area. There will be haunted walks, a thriller dance competition, karaoke and a night full of zombie delight. There will be professional makeup artists on site to make you zombified provided that you bring your own makeup. A new addition to the walk this year is a ZombieCon where you can check out over 35 different zombie themed vendors. For a full list of events check out
Real Life: Frightfest at Six Flags Great Adventure. America’s favorite theme park has been over run with zombies, ghosts, and ghouls for the month of October. Spooky!
Cereal: A week before September even began the super markets in the area have been stocking their shelves with enough candy to rot the world but one thing they have added to their shelves are the return of BOO-BERRY and FRANKEN-BERRY cereals. These limited edition cereals were originally offered in the line of spooky cereals along with Count Chocoula but were discontinued because of their overwhelmingly sweet flavors. They have been brought back from the dead, pun intended, and while they aren’t zombies per say I have decided to lump them all in to the undead family. Mainly because before I wrote this article I was eating box after box of them before I realized I could pour them all in to one bowl… If that doesn’t look like a putrid bowl of whole grain-brains to you too, than nothing does.
Honorable Moans: Oatmeal. It also looks like a bowl full of zombie brains.
