Welcome, once again. It hasn’t been all that long and already we’ve got a full lineup.
First up is Zpocalypse. Now this is an interesting case. You remember Zombicide from the last crowdsourcing roundup post? Well Zpocalypse could kind of be considered it “rival” if you will. They both ran very successful Kickstarter campaigns at near the same time and they are both running successful Kickstarter campaigns right now. It took Zpocalypse just 11 hours to fund their original $35,000 goal. Granted, that’s a far cry from raising $25,000 in two minutes, but it’s certainly nothing to sneeze at. I haven’t yet had a chance to try out Zpocalypse since the game only very recently began shipping. (That should change soon, though.) However, if you’re deciding between one or the other to support, my answer would be to decide what you’re looking for. Zombicide is all about action. Zpocalypse, on the other hand is, from what I have seen, a much deeper game where you have to worry about resources, the state of your survivors, and other aspects of survival. Something else to consider is stretch goals. If you happen to be a completionist, then it also looks like Zpocalypse will be less expensive overall. While Zombicide has a lot of cool additional figures, around half of them are “optional” and you will have to pay extra to get them. Zpocalypse, on the other hand has also shown a few stretch goals with plans for more, but after a certain point they’re all already included in what you’re getting. Also, Zpocalypse is, at high enough pledge levels, also offering everything that they gave out during their first Kickstarter campaign, in addition to this new one.
Like many people, I’m a crooner fan, I admit it. I like the old classic crooners like Sinatra, Calloway, and Bennett, as well as more modern ones like Micheal Buble and Landau Eugene Murphy. However, I’m not really sure what to make of this. The aptly titled “The Rat Pack” is an off-Broadway performance about some of the “Rat Pack” coming back from the dead for a one-night performance, with a lot of their classic songs parodied into undead versions of themselves. Much like the singers. It seems like it might have potential.
next we have another short film called “Sobrevivo” (Spanish for “I survive”) and its claim that you can help them “zombie movie history”. OK, I admit that while the description of the movie does seem like an interesting enough zombie apocalypse story, it is not in any way, shape, or form “historical”. I’ve half a mind to stop including any movies/books/what have you that claim to be “historical,” “completely different,” or otherwise “new” but are in fact, the exact same thing that everybody else is doing and have been doing for the past 40 years. Still, “historic” hyperbole aside, it looks like it might make a decent movie, so we should probably support them anyways.
We’ve got quite the diverse selection this week. After a game, a musical, and a movie, we now have a graphic novel that takes us to New Orleans, and to what I’m assuming is a zombie far closer to it’s Voodoo roots than most we see these days. Taking place shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Le Mystere (which I think is French for “The secret”, but feel free to correct me) is the story of a marine on emergency leave from Iraq searching for his missing sister, who had apparently been kidnapped by an old voodoo sorcerer awakened by the destruction of the city. In order to get her back, he must aide what is left of an ancient secret society of zombie hunters. If that doesn’t sound awesome to you, then I don’t know what would.
Finally we have a game called Protect or Infect. It’s a humans vs. zombies board game where the humans try to escape and the zombies try to prevent that. It seems interesting enough, though I wasn’t a big fan of the trying-too-hard-to-be-funny pitch videos. Plus $70 seems a bit steep for what you’re getting. Most commercial board games theses days go for $50 – $60, and that’s including games that offer as much or more in terms of physical stuff. Still, like I said the game itself does look interesting, and if you’re up to helping out a tiny company that hasn’t yet made its way into the world yet, then these guys might be worth checking out.
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