Zombies are gross. Do you know what else is gross? Sexual objectification of women. Or men, for that matter. In fact, sexual objectification is pretty disgusting, no matter who you’re objectifying. If there is a scale for how offensive sexual objectification of different things can be, I’d put corpses quite far along the scale. Right out towards “very” on the disgust-o-meter.
I mean, objectifying women and men should denote you as a sleazy pervert who is destined to remain forever alone with naught but your own sweaty digits and perhaps a crusted sports sock for comfort on the cold, dark evenings. Objectifying a woman or man who has clearly been deceased for some time should put you on a register.
Videogames objectify women quite a lot, and occasionally men too. The latest videogame to do that is this one. But the people who want you to buy this videogame aren’t willing to settle for regular, icky pervert status that many other videogames purveyors would be comfortable attaining. No, the people who want you to buy this videogame are hanging their hat right on that special perverts peg by the door to the dungeon. They think you want some decomposing objectification.
You see, this is one of many modern games that feature zombies. It’s kind of like Dead Rising or Dead Rising 2 with some nods, stylistically, to the many incarnations of The Walking Dead. There’s even tones of Left 4 Dead and its sequel in there. This game features the over-the-top style that many might associate with Romero’s Living Dead series of movies, with elements of the self-awareness of the genre seen in films like Zombieland, Sean of the Dead and others. But all of that heritage isn’t important because this game has got boobs in it.
The people marketing the game are very keen that you know about the boobs. They’ve issued a Collector’s Edition which will cost almost a hundred pounds, in which you get a hand-painted resin statue that features some boobs. In fact, the resin statue features more boobs than arms or legs or eyes or lips or class or decency. It’s basically all boob. Most importantly, it seems, these are rare boobs.
By paying almost a hundred pounds for the special Collector’s Edition of this upcoming zombie game you can have twelve inches of rock hard, hand caressed resin that looks a bit like a bad boob job and a tacky bikini wrapped around a decaying torso.
Now, that’s gross.
3shirts
It is very easy to say “sex and violence sells products” – Yes it does but oppressive and violent dictatorships stay in power for a long time too, doesn’t mean people should just sit back and accept it.
Things like this are counter productive. You aren’t going to encourage people into gaming if they think this is what represents it.
Imagine if someone who’d not seen a film since Casablanca was shown Piranha 3DD. Would you want them to think it represents the film industry now?
hazelam
thinks about doing a joke that this is as close as some people would get to a pair of breasts, but decides against it because that would just be cheap and tacky. ^_^
but seriously, who is going to buy this?
i mean, that’s a very specific fetish they’re aiming at there.
believe me, i can understand appreciating the female form, but on the condition that the form is whole.
not with bloody stumps where the head and arms should be.
also, i don’t usually buy the fetishising sexual violence argument some people make about gaming, but it’s hard to say they’re not linking sex and violence here.
it wouldn’t seem so bad if they’d put arms and a head on the figure, but as is, it just rubs me the wrong way.
i mean, what they’re selling here is basically a statue of the mutilated corpse of a bikini clad woman.
3shirts
“i can understand appreciating the female form, but on the condition that the form is whole” – What is whole though? A quadriplegic is still a whole person, you racist.
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*This is a joke*
hazelam
i was rather thinking of the missing head.
but for all those who unfortunately have no head, for whatever reason, you’re still beautiful.
who needs a head anyway?
a lot of the best bits are below the neck anyway. ^_^
kjkg
There is a joke in there about head too, but like you, I won’t stoop so low.
blast71
mmm… bloody stumps…
Mike
10/10 – would bang
Tuffcub
https://twitter.com/i/#!/Tuffcub/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FlVoRMe4o
hazelam
yeah, but only one of them looks like leftovers in hannibal lector’s freezer.
Moshbag
The fact that the zombie mauled and mutilated her but left the rack intact makes him the misogynist surely? Or her, I don’t want to be sexist.
DapperHayden007
Lol, would have been a little harder if I hadn’t already seen this before :)
Starman
I think this will be one of those special editions that’s still on a shelf a year after release, until it eventually gets heavily discounted. A statue of one of the playable characters would have been nice.
Alex C
On the shelf where? HMV?
This is purely a PR stunt, IMO. Nobody knew the game was out and somebody thought SHIT, we need some free press. Chances are the bust doesn’t even exist. Look out for a “sorry, we’ve recalled it” tomorrow after the PR NIGHTMARE OMG!
The sad thing is the number of outlets that just lapped up the press release and posted this as news. SLURP.
Starman
I’d be very surprised if it was never even sold, probably won’t be made in big numbers though.
My original comment I was referring to seeing £100+ special editions of killzone 3, skyrim, max Payne 3, Tekken 6, all of which I’ve seen for half price after release. I think there’s very few people wiling to shell out over £100 on special editions games now.
Death_In_Flamez
Don’t really see the issue….actually looked it up to see if there was a fuss and it’s just a torso with a Union flag bikini…..no nudity or anything….
I see it as a collector’s piece that some people may want. Nothing more :)
Sympozium
..well its a change from the breast shaped mouse pads with all those jrpg SE games.
Peter Chapman
how do they work then? The mouse would keep rolling downhill, surely?
Sympozium
isn’t it the wrist thing? I mean the mousemats…
xdarkmagician
IMO all collectors editions are the same, your just paying for some cheap trinkets and bragging rights. It doesn’t matter what those trinkets are, because none of them serve a purpose other than a conversation starter…. “Hey where’d you get that Dragon statue…” or “Hey where’d you get that half-naked torso statue… ” the answer to both is going to make someone think your wasting your life, and someone else think your the coolest gamer they know.