The evolution of videogame zombies
A horrifying history of the shambling flesh-eaters we love to shoot
Disposition: Creepy
Apparently inspired by Star Trek’s borg and created by impaling humans on giant, fearsome-looking spikes, the Husks are single-minded robo-zombies who exist only to attack their own kind and act as grunts for the Geth, a race of destructive, hive-minded cybernetic creatures. Usually they’re easy to dispatch, but they’re a sad, chilling reminder of what the places you explore must have been like before the Geth came to visit. (Read: populated.)
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