Youtube: ZPC cutscenes, Tattoo Assassinations

December 20, 2006, 01:44 PM

by brandon, via UnderGroundGamers -
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ZPC was an old doom-like PC (and mac) game that got pretty poor reviews, but had great visual style, thanks to Aidan Hughes' art (famous for his KMFDM covers). So if the game was crap (haven't played it, can't really say), the visual style was impressive. Even the blocky graphics, which were a complaint for many at the time, look amazingly stylish now. The music pretty decent, but people seem to have thought it was unplayably bad back then.

Conveniently, UnderGroundGamers has put up all of the game's cutscenes, which are really interesting to watch, I think. Not only the visual style, but the action and direction of them. It really holds up for being over 10 years old. Definitely give it a look.

UnderGroundGamers is also the group that brought us the 60 Tattoo Assassins fatalities, as linked by kotaku recently. The game reportedly had over 2,000 of them, and they're all ridiculous (Whistler's Mother? Come on now...), but I'm linking it because of the multiple Burger Time references. It was a Data East property, so they could do that. So there's the anthropomorphic hot dog for one, but also the more blatant reference to the right. This also means Tattoo Assassins are ripe for the plucking, should SNK choose to feature them in an upcoming game.