This however is one of the ones that doesn’t do anything to elevate itself. It’s a roomscale game, and makes use of it. That it doesn’t have locomotion isn’t a huge problem because it encourages you to move your body. It has interactions with the environment around you in the form of the objects around you that you can use as weapons… You’re constantly grabbing, shooting, punching, slashing, throwing your way through the levels. SuperHot remains great, if short, thanks to its understanding of what makes a VR game great. The thing is, this game doesn’t add anything new that hasn’t been seen before. There are many more other titles that just didn’t make the grade and are just forgotten about. The ones that stand head and shoulders above their brethren. The old games you’re remembering, they’re the pillars. The Model T was revolutionary and fantastic.īut if it were released as a new car today, you wouldn’t buy one. We get a new yardstick, a new standard for what is good. Anything that doesn’t match up gets left in the dust. Most games were, by “modern” VR standards… Not very good.īut then you have games that stand out as being great. With VR being a new medium, in the beginning, everything was an experiment, trying to find it’s feet. He was acting cool and confident while preparing himself for the journey with heroic background music, but he fell off from the bike the next second.What’s good or not is relative to what’s around it. Other than this, the part where Columbus decided to look for Wichita at Pacific Playland by himself with a super bike. The examples of slapstick that appears in this film is when Tallahassee knocked down a zombie on the road by opening his car door, which is very random and is not necessary at all for a rational person. It often required exquisite timing and well-honed performance skills. Slapstick is primitive and universal comedy with broad, aggressive, physical, and visual action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags. There are few types of comedy found in this film such as slapstick, screwball, dark comedy and parody. Comedy can be achieved through the exaggerations of situations, characters and their behaviours, language and action. Those scenes are filled with blood and intestines.Įxcept horror, this film managed to make me laugh and keep me entertained, which leads to my second genre – comedy. There are a few scenes which I find them quite disturbing and is making me feel discomfort, especially when the zombies are eating the body of their victims and the zombie is shot by Tallahassee in the head in front of the gift shop.
From the title of this film, you can already see that Zombieland is basically talking about the walking corpses – zombies and how to survive from zombie apocalypse. Zombieland falls into unnatural subgenre, which includes the following elements – zombie, ghost, witchcraft and vampire. According to Susan Hayward, there are three types of subgenera in horror – psychological, massacre/slasher flicks and unnatural.
They are designed to create tension, fear and terror on the audiences. Horror films have existed for more than a century since the 1890s. Columbus wants a family, Tallahassee is going crazy looking for Twinkies, and the sisters are looking forward to pay a visit to Pacific Playland, which they heard rumours saying that the place is safe. They gathered to survive from this disaster, but each of them have something else in their mind too. Four of them are the survivors of the Zombieland but they carry very different personalities. There are four main characters in this film – Columbus, Tallahassee, and the sisters, Wichita and Little Rock. In this post, I am going to analyse the genres of this film.īut before I start, I will first briefly talk about the storyline of Zombieland. Zombieland is a very special movie, as it is a combination of up to 6 genres. Both semantic and syntactic work together to compliment each other for a better understanding. The way of how the characters in a film interact with each other is defined by the genre of the film is one of the example for syntactic. While syntactic is more focused on metaphysical aspects. Semantic is basically the conventions of the genre that communicates to the audience. Semantic is very much like mise-en-scene, which are like the characters, props, locations, sets and more. According to Rick Altman, we can categorise the film by using semantic and syntactic approach. Examples of genre are drama, comedy, thriller, horror, sci-fi, action and many more. Genre is formed with categories that differentiate the film types. Zombieland, a cross-genre or hybrid genre film directed by Ruben Fleischer.