Switch things around, your not a only person who isn't a zombie, your a super zombie that eats zombies! So it's the zombies trying to survive you!

I like the idea of multiple characters making more game mechanics.

how about a single mom/dad with a few AI controlled kids following you? You have to protect them but the challenge is they sometimes panic and run randomly or they cry and alert zombies or they refuse to move. Holding their hands prevent them from running away but makes you move slower/use only 1 handed weapons

Or a disabled person who can ask NPCs to help him out making the game a little more squad-like (NPCs act as his gunners/help carry/move him). The problem is some NPCs are rude(refuse to help him), panics (disregards his orders), etc.

back to that picture.

Make it a mission, where you find kids trying to fend off zombies at a small park. After you successfully fend off the zombies, one comes out of no where and kills the kids.

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back to that picture.

Make it a mission, where you find kids trying to fend off zombies at a small park. After you successfully fend off the zombies, one comes out of no where and kills the kids.

This is why we can't have nice things, aka kids in violent video games!

how about a guy who wants to break a world record in sitting in a glass jar(which is hanging over the streets) for over a week.
he can see how everyone gets infected and/or eaten by zombies, and after some time, he decides to leave the glass jar, because his food is all gone.

Initial weapons: A crimping tool, a plastic toy lightsaber and a USB camera controlled nerf turret he keeps installed in his room to shoot intruders.

Ironic Twist/Foreshadow: his WoW character is undead. He begins the story taking part in a massive raid using swarm tactics. Once he gets out into the real, zombie filled world, he has to draw on his extensive knowledge of undead and their weaknesses to survive!

Additional characters: he was on a raid with several other people from his guild, scattered around the world. He therefore knows that there are still some people alive. Perhaps if he can track down his team, together they can pool their resources and skills and fight back as a team.

Well…so much for a story about the guy who survives the apocalypse by staying in his room playing W.O.W.

Anyone else see Zombieland today?

A drug addict who hallucinates all the time. And you can have the game really being about him hallucinating about zombies, turns out he's really killing tons of innocent people. And the game ends with him getting off scottfree because hes wasn't in his right mind.

Nobody likes a story that ends with "it was all just a dream." That one should be dismissed out of principle.

I like the MMO idea though. Presumably the player is not the only guy in the city left playing, because there must be plenty of other nerds who were locked in the basement neglecting their personal needs. Or else there are zombies in the game ( /brains command, anyone?). The MMO idea would be especially good because you could incorporate it into the actual game as a place for the player to network with the other survivors, who presumably could each help or need help in their own ways.

It'd be funny and pretty ironic if the game became a sort of safe haven for zombie survivors; if you rescue people they'll appear in the game, until everybody left alive is playing the MMO while zombies wreck havoc in the city. There could be a particularly absurdist quality to it when you know one of your comrades is being attacked because an avatar of his zombie mother is attacking him in-game.

I also love the idea of some druggie who survived on chance (probably because he already smelled like rotting meat), and I think it'd be hilarious to have a few characters like

">Bubb Rubb around the town fighting

">LeprechaunsZombies, so either approach could be hilarious and fun if done right.

Here's one - Zombie survivor is a woman on her wedding day. Gets so drunk at her bridal shower, that she puts goes to the basement closet where her wedding dress is stored, and locks herself it. Wakes up, realizes it's her wedding day and puts on her dress. She finds her fiancee at the church, a zombie. She tells him that she knew he would never go through with it, being a zombie is NO excuse! Proceeds to make mincemeat out of all the other zombies as payback.

(Okay, no hookers. But brides are comic gold, right? :)