WotW and Zombies?

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When I was browsing Amazon, I found this:

www.coscomentertainment.com/warzombie.html

Judging from the cover and description, it's something along the lines of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, except using WotW instead. Has anyone read or seen this before?

[Lonesome Crow]

I've seen it before, but not read it.
Let us know what you think if you get it. ;D

[Relyt]

That should be made into a computer game. I like killing zombies in games such as the Half Life series or Left 4 Dead. Adding tripods to the mix would make things interesting.

Come to think of it, I have a lot of games with zombies. Borderlands, Fallout 1,2,3, New Vegas, Garrysmod, Killing Floor, and Overlord 1 & 2. So that makes 15 games with zombies in them.

[Lonesome Crow]

Zombies have become very popular in the last few years, I wonder why that is?

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Sept 28, 2010 20:04:10 GMT 1 Lonesome Crow said:

Zombies have become very popular in the last few years, I wonder why that is?

I was wondering that, too.

Is there a specific book/film/game that started the zombie craze?

[Lonesome Crow]

George A. Romero's 1978 film 'The Dawn of the Dead' is probably the best known of the zombie movies, there were others but but never became as popular.

Then it went a bit quiet for a few years until '28 Days Later' came out in 2002 and kicked the whole zombie craze off again, computer games, Books and more films.

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Well, I finally got a chance to get a look at WotW Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies, and for the most part I found it an interesting idea but a little lacklustre. Here are a few details that you may find interesting.

• 90-95% of the book is Wells' original text, with some bits about zombies tacked on.
  
• The first few chapters of the book are for the most part exactly the same as in the original WotW. The first major divergence from the story is in Chapter 5, where Ogilvy becomes a zombie.
  
• The radiation from the Martians' cylinder creates a zombie plague, starting with the victims of the Heat Ray but naturally spreads to more people. The zombies, together with the Martians, wipe out the British Army. The zombies only attack the humans, of course.
  
• The artilleryman mentions "the dead" in his rant and a war between Martians and zombies.
  
• The Narrator refers to his wife as "honey" in one scene. I'm not sure if that was a slang term used in the period, but it was a little jarring.
  
  

All in all, it was an interesting read but the author did not mimic Wells' style very well. The bits about zombies felt rather out of place. Some parts were funny, but it's a book to borrow, not to buy.

[Lonesome Crow]

Sept 30, 2010 22:21:10 GMT 1 @stargazer said:

it's a book to borrow, not to buy.

Sounds like good advice, thanks. ;D