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Infected (ZombiU)

GamesUndeadShambles2010 to today

The infected of Ubisoft's 2012 Wii U launch game, set in London. Its best-known idea concerns the player: each survivor has one life, and on death becomes a zombie that the next survivor has to put down.1

Battle it
First appeared
2012
ZombiU (2012)
Source work
ZombiU (2012)
Ubisoft Montpellier
Made in
France
What causes it
Never explained
The outbreak in London fulfils the 'Black Prophecy' made about 400 years earlier by John Dee.
How you become one
A dead player character rises as one.
How it moves
Shambles
Deliberately slower than the monsters of the prototype the game grew out of.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • shoving them back with a weapon

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2012

ZombiU (2012)

field notes

What the sources say

1

One bite can kill1

2

When a character dies, the player starts as a new survivor and must kill the old one to get the backpack back1

3

Online, other players' dead characters turn up as zombies carrying their loot1

4

Light and gunfire attract them1

5

Variants explode, wear armour or leak corrosive fluid1

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Infected (ZombiU) about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. ZombiU - Wikipedia

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