When you’re bitten, your character dies, permanently, and you come back as a new survivor who must track down your previous (now reanimated) body to retrieve lost items. I was never a big fan of high school football, but I love the college and the pros games so I could appreciate some of what transpires here and the passion that teams elicit in their towns. To me, it was a very tongue-in-cheek jab at football in Texas - where one team is taking enough steroids to choke a horse and the other team is brought back from the dead for "one last game".

The story lives up to its outrageous premise and is supported by fine-tuned sniping, gut-wrenching gore, and a killer soundtrack fitting of the finest ’80s horror flicks. The build up of the villian, a loud mouth cheater is funny especially when he lies about his success with girls in between the dialogues as he schemes against Logan.I read a bunch of rave reviews about this book and I have to say that I agree with every one of them. You have only one player who constantly shoots free kicks, and your opponents have a zombie goalie and players.

You usually have to survive against hordes of these ravenous reanimated corpses to avoid becoming one of them.Just a year later, Valve brought us Left 4 Dead 2, building upon that successful formula with a familiar yet enhanced team-based shooter. The hero of the book, the chainsmoking brooding quarterback from the rough side of town, and the smart nerdy (pointedly not a virgin) school reporter out for a scoop! I haven’t really jumped on the zombie bandwagon, and the fact that ‘Play Dead’ is a zombie football novel left me a little cold. They’ve been a part of the video game landscape for decades, so long they’ve carved out their own subgenre: the “zombie game.

The only criticism I have is that I would like to be able to save my progress if I uninstall the game because I had an issue where I couldn't open the app and was forced to reinstall it and lost all my progress. I think this well may be the first book about football playing zombies, and honestly whether you like football or not, it's a great read.The plausibility of such a scenario is part of the reason zombie games are so popular to play on the web.