Gaming industry said farewell to George Romero, the man who invented modern zombies
Film director George Romero has died today in 77 year of lung cancer. The legendary horror fan behind has left a significant contribution to modern culture by in the sixties redefined the concept of reanimated mortals - the zombies. With his movie "Night of the Living Dead" Romero has given the zombies the characteristics that have remained until today, when zombies are at the peak of popularity.
George Romero never made his own video game, but was closely related to the world of interactive entertainment. It is no secret that his work inspired the Capcom team that according to his definition of zombies gave us the Resident Evil series. Romero had fingers in that series - he directed TV commercial for cult Resident Evil 2, and in 1998 he worked on the screenplay for Resident Evil's film adaptation.
Unfortunately, Capcom did not like his screenplay because it was too different from the game so they dismissed him. The script came later on the Internet and the truth could not have been beyond Capcom's claims, especially after we finally got Resident Evil movie that had little to do with the game itself - except for the zombies and characters named as those in video games .
Despite the failure in collaboration with Capcom, Romero nevertheless appeared in the virtual video game world. It was 2011 in Call of Duty: Black Ops, a zombie campaign named Call of the Dead where he played a playable character.
Given that he had left immense importance on the entertainment industry with his work, to Romero said thanks numerous gaming industry names, including Hideo Kojima, Neil Druckmann and others.
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