zombies

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This could play out almost like a Dead Rising style game where the zombies are the Flood.

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  1. noun A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States.
  2. noun A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse.
  3. noun A corpse revived in this way.
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  • But as vicious and as strong and as swift and deadly as the zombies were, they couldn't hold a candle to Sue. —  Butcher, Jim - Dead Beat (v1.0) (html).html
  • RING OF FIRE King Xeth was as good as his kingly word: In the morning the four other zombies were there, ready to guide their charges to the general vicinity of the Rings. —  Swell Foop
  • Now the foursome is alone against a force of violent cyber-zombies, their former friends, who wish to convert the holdouts to Central's utopia. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • Evil Nine are two British electro-fiends dressed up as zombies, and gimmicks aside, the whole thing kinda works.
  • But according to IGN's review (which I trust over anything at this site right now because they actually PLAYED THE GAME instead of sitting around here complaining about the graphics since the announcement of it) there are still plenty of moments where the zombies were absolutely suffocating. —  Cubed3.com News
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