History VideoGame / ZombiU

** Zombies can still attack you when you are checking your inventory, since your surroundings don't just pause like in most video games. Additionally, because your inventory is all inside a backpack, checking your inventory means that the player has to remove the backpack and set it down in order to properly obtain items. Thus making you even ''more'' vulnerable.

* RealityEnsues: Zombies are attracted by your light and the sound of gunshots, so be careful when trying to avoid them in groups.

* IncongruouslyDressedZombie: Many of the zombies wear a varying assortment of outfits. This includes several who are dressed as British royal guards, a few in police riot armor, and some wearing gas masks with air tanks on their backs. In fact, this is how you can distinguish some of the regular zombies from the elite zombies, such as the screaming zombies (who dress like a '70s rock stars), the spitting zombies (who wear unbuckled straight jackets), and the teleporting zombies (who dress like nurses). The royal guards and nurses could be justified though; the former were implied to have gotten infected while still on the job and the latter may have come from the nursery who the Prepper claims got overrun with zombies.

* IncongruouslyDressedZombie: Many of the zombies wear a varying assortment of outfits. This includes several who are dressed as British royal guards, a few in police riot armor, and some wearing gas masks with air tanks on their backs. In fact, this is how you can distinguish some of the regular zombies from the elite zombies, such as the screaming zombies (who dresses like a '70s rock star), the spitting zombies (who wear unbuckled straight jackets), and the teleporting zombies (who dress like nurses).

While the game shares elements with one of Ubisoft's first games, the 1986 PC title ''Zombi'', [[https://www.twitter.com/KesieV/status/270532117191094274 it is not a reboot]]. The game [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/07/09/the-wii-us-best-non-nintendo-exclusive-is-coming-to-ps4-and-xbox-one/ received a port]] to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows (via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) as ''Zombi''.

* ButThouMust: [[spoiler: Even with foresight when it comes to The Arena, a trap, you still need to "Save the Girl" to advance the plotline and have Dr. Knight develop the Panacea]]. [[TropesAreNotBad Think of it this way]]: [[spoiler: Your mission turns into "Confront King Boris and put an end to his mad games. At least then, you'll stop him from kidnapping any future survivors!"]]

* BoomHeadshot: Headshots are ''always'' guaranteed to instantly kill a zombie... at least on Chicken mode. In Normal mode, however, it usually requires two shots to the head to down a zombie.
* BoringButPractical: The starting Pistol. You cannot put it in the storage crate, but two headshots from it is enough to kill a zombie. Ammo for Pistols is easier to find than the other types of ammo.

The game [[http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/07/09/the-wii-us-best-non-nintendo-exclusive-is-coming-to-ps4-and-xbox-one/ received a port]] to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows (via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}) as ''Zombi''.

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* InterfaceSpoiler: One of the achievements is called [[spoiler:Betrayed! Survive the Ambush at the Church. Looks like that distress call really is a trap.]]

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Because of the way the game's physics work, attacking a body may sometimes cause it to clip through the floor and disappear from the game world. If this happens to one of the 6 bodies containing one of the Letters of Dee, you'll be unable to make the Panacea and get the best ending. So, never attack a body that carries a letter; all 6 of them are dead for real and won't get up to attack you.

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Originally thought to be yet another overused zombie-themed game that would be doomed as something very boring, ''[=ZombiU=]'' has taken many critics off-guard by its surprising gameplay and the actual shrill of horror due to the real time nature of the game. Since then, the game's polarizing reviews (ranging everywhere from an awful 4.3/10 to a stellar 9.3/10) have led to debate as to whether or not "real" survival horror games would be accepted by modern audiences, especially given how much of the criticism was leveled at old-school design choices like having a low emphasis on combat and having highly limited ammunition.

''[=ZombiU=]'' is a SurvivalHorror game with FirstPersonShooter elements developed by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} exclusively for the UsefulNotes/WiiU, in late 2012. You play as a human trying to survive a ZombieApocalypse in London, but with one big twist... [[FinalDeath when you die, you stay dead]], and restart the previous mission as a new survivor without any of the skills learned or items acquired previously. The story is told through interaction with the handful of {{NPC}}s scattered throughout the game; mainly the mysterious man who guides you through the city and seems to know more about the events surrounding the zombie outbreak than he lets on.

* ConspiracyTheorist: The Prepper has a lot to say about the government's role in keeping the public ignorant about the John Dee's prophecy and the zombie outbreak it foretold. He also claims that the Queen is a [[TheReptilians Reptilian]], though he may have been joking about that one.

** The shovel and baseball bat for the [=PS4=] and Xbox One port. They're both much stronger than the cricket bat, but since you can't stash the cricket bat like the rest of your items, this requires you to have space to spare in your bag if you were to use the additional melee weapons and still bring other items with you.

** In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZJc9q77ptQ trailer]], [[spoiler:a business man is seen shooting himself while the office he's in is being attacked by zombies]].

* SuperTitle64Advance: [[PunBasedTitle With at least three puns in the title]]. [[spoiler:"Zombie" rhymes with "Wii", "U" can become a "Zombi", and the game is published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}.]]

* LostForever: Because of the way the game's physics work, attacking a body may sometimes cause it to clip through the floor and disappear from the game world. If this happens to one of the 6 bodies containing one of the Letters of Dee, you'll be unable to make the Panacea and get the best ending. So, never attack a body that's carry a letter; all 6 of them are dead for real and won't get up to attack you.

* [[Main/{{Noob}} Noob]]: One can be identified by an empty zombie survivor, with 0 points to boot.

* OneHitKill: While you can survive multiple melee attacks from zombies, one bite is all it takes for them to kill you.