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.
blast71
Is this where the expression “shagging her knife-wound” comes from?
Jones81
I actually quite like this, might pick up the special edition, It’s only a bloody statue for christ’s sake and I’m a sucker for anything zombie related
tactical20
Sexual objectification goes hand-in-hand with the over-the-top nature of Zombie games/movies. It’s all tongue-in-cheek anyway isn’t it? Reminds me of something Borderlands might do.
I blame The Walking Dead for trying (and miserably failing, imo) to add emotion and sincerity, to what is essentially supposed to be a silly bit of fun. I mean they’re Zombies ffs! How can you take that seriously?!
Sympozium
…what does this appeal to? I don’t get it.. I’d be put off from buying this edition if I was interested in the game.
Starman
The deep silver twitter (if its genuine) is saying its cancelled & they’re deeply sorry.
KeRaSh
I’m curious as to why this collector’s edition gets ripped apart in the air due to its “sexist” nature, yet when some japanese game came out with a mouse pad that had an arm rest made out of boobies, the article had a rather funny undertone.
I actually think the mousepad is way weirder and more sexist than this. That said, I’d still never buy something like this. It’s still weird enough for my taste.
Kevling
I’m going to be the pedant who totally ignores the topic, and points out that it’s SHAUN of the Dead, not Sean.
Unless that’s a joke too ;)
Pulista
I think this article rather than objectively report on the collector’s edition comes
across more like a personal rant. Yes it is sexist and somewhat silly and is almost
certainly just to generate hype but many other games before it have done the same
if not worse. Why hold this one up to particular scrutiny? And why censor the
picture then tell us we must be ‘weird’ if we want to see what it is you are actually
complaining about in your article?
Jiggling boobs in fighting games, homoerotic and oversized muscle bound guys,
it’s all available and more. I do not understand why you are leveling a complaint at
this particular one. I think it would have been better to look for a discussion on this
CE or talk about sexism in gaming in general instead of just telling us sexism is
baad ohkay and we should feel bad. The first paragraph in the article reads more
like a comment from David Brent than anything else.
As someone commented earlier, his girlfriend saw a picture of this and she
couldn’t have been less bothered. Maybe she should have been, I do not know.
Some people do seem to like CEs’ or models of plenty of other strange items,
video game related or otherwise, It is their choice to buy or not. From what
I understand this CE is only available in three European countries anyway.
Sorry but I just found the tone of the article a little patronising and somewhat
pointless.