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Parent: (conditional ¹)
* Undead

Related:
* Undead menace
* Zombie apocalypse

¹) For example, creatures acting like zombies because of some mind-controlling parasite certainly aren't undead.
Sanguine # 2008-09-28 06:04:05

These are either regular fantasy undead zombies or the sci-fi mutant zombies (a la Resident Evil). So the games should be marked appropriately with the additional info (sci-fi, fantasy, undead tag, etc.). If in doubt, omit them.

Unlike skeletons, zombies still have muscles and nervous system and possibly brains to control the behaviour and therefore are not scientifically speaking dead. A somewhat common alternate interpretion for those that try to achieve a level of realism say they're infected with some strange virus or whatever that damages their higher brain functions, makes them ultra violent (hence the somewhat common name "rage virus"), and hungry for the flesh of non-infected. The undead kind that used to be popular were controlled by magic, demons, spirits, or some other external force to the corpse itself that could defy laws of nature.

Ultra violence and somewhat braindead (or rather rabid and animalistic) intelligence with the former personality largely destroyed are the defining traits. Though commonly they're also rotting alive, or suffer from effects similar to old scientifically inaccurate belief of how leprosy works (that is, body parts falling off).
Sanguine # 2008-07-11 01:06:34