10 Movies That Directly Influenced Gaming
5. Night Of The Living Dead
Games Influenced: Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead, Dead Island, every zombie game.
We live in a world of zombies. Not literally, that would be awful and I recommend you Google how to build a campfire or turn urine into drinking water rather than flick through this top ten list if that were the case.
But in terms of gaming, zombies provide one of the best foes to fight against, be they terrifying critters who catch you off guard with jump scares and sheer numbers, or comically slow movers you can put a cowboy hat on then beat to death with a fire extinguisher.
You can owe all this to Resident Evil, and Resident Evil can owe all that to Night Of The Living Dead.
The George A Romero franchise took a concept most commonly associated with black magic and voodoo and turned it into something more real, reanimated corpses brought about by scientific mishap.
Even the plot of the original Night Of The Living Dead, people trapped in a house fighting the evil outside, became the foundation for the first Resident Evil, and us gamers have been aiming for the head of those rotting bastards ever since.