Nothing can stop the undead... except the pause button.
by IGN Editorial Team

August 22, 2006 - Welcome to IGN?s weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Every week we?ll feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements or whatever else we can think of that in some way relates to gaming and its history. And just because it?s called Top 10 Tuesday doesn?t mean it?s always going to be a list of the best -- we like to razz on stuff as much as praising it. From counting down the best consoles ever to revealing the worst use of fish heads in a videogame, this is where it?s at.

This week?s topic: Zombie Games! You know you love them -- they allow you turn off the lights, crank up the surround sound, and scare the living crap out of just about anything in a hundred-foot radius. But as great as zombie games are (by default, mind you), some have to stand (or hobble) above the rest; and that?s what this list is for: to help our dedicated IGN readers figure out which games are the absolute best examples of those rotting, sloshing, no-balance interactive undead bastards. Enjoy!

10) Hunter: The Reckoning // Vivendi (Multi)

   
 A favorite among early Xbox horror fans, Hunter: The Reckoning was a surprisingly addictive death festival that not only allowed players to take out and annihilate zombies with 20 different weapons and spells (including flamethrowers and axes), but it also let them stake vampires, shoot werewolves, and upgrade their characters like a traditional RPG.

It may not have been as pretty as some of the other games on our list, sure, but hey -- who says Zombies are supposed to be pretty (and no, Night of the Living Dead III, doesn?t count)?