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Every time this complaint rolls around I have the same reaction: Please show me all these zombie games that I have missed. Because there are plenty of games out there where zombies are an enemy, but they could just as easily be replaced with commies or nazis or robots or aliens or what have you. Zombies have shallow motives? Sure, find me a videogame where the enemy doesn't and I'll show you a rare gem. These are Not Zombie Games™, they are games which happen to include zombies. You might as well complain about a new SSX because there are ice levels in Sonic. Rye talks about an angle on zombies here and she's pretty much spot on; if the zombie apocalypse isn't about the survivors, then it's not a piece of zombie media.

Games which are actually about zombies are pretty smurfing rare, in fact I can think of Project Zomboid, Dead State, Dead Rising, Dead Island (debatable for the same reason), RDR: Undead Nightmare and that's it. Probably a few flash games knocking around as well.
I'm sorry if my post came across as just picking on zombie games, zombies are the topic of the thread, so that's what I addressed. I find games with other mindless creatures, like the ones you mentioned, to be just as lacking in plot in general. Horrors in general are as well lacking in plot, and it's a damn shame, because the genre has so much potential to be great.

"Zombies have shallow motives? Sure, find me a videogame where the enemy doesn't and I'll show you a rare gem."

That's the whole point really, there's not too many good horrors out there. It'd be nice if they would put some effort into the story part of the game rather than filling it with killing monsters because they are monsters. Zombie (and other monster) games is an offender in this area. They're so close to being games that I like, yet so far away. That's what annoys me, make good horrors damn it!

Hopefully I don't have to wrap [imo] tags around my post?