The Last Stand Legacy Collection-GOG

Alternate Character Interpretation: Some fans see HERC as sympathetic. Sure, they're awfully quick to shoot at you and they did some pretty nasty things to some of the evacuees in Union City (and the civilians in Dead Zone's backstory), but the only one you see for sure in Union City is your spouse, who has been infected. The only reason why HERC are stopping you from leaving the mainland is because they don't want the infection to spread further. This may have been mildly lampshaded at the end when, after escaping by allowing the zombie hordes to overrun the last safe place in the city, your boat stalls and the screen fades to black while you hear a growl as, presumably, your spouse turns into a zombie. Demonic Spiders: In the first three games: Running zombies. They close in way faster than you can shoot them off, which is not a problem if they're regulars, but they can be fat, armed or both. Fat zombies have a ridiculously high amount of health even if you aim for the head. If they can run (and they're equally as likely as thin zombies to be runners), they're almost impossible to fight off before they're on top of you already. Zombies armed with hatchets or claw hammers can kill your survivors through the barricade in the first two games, and in Union City, they hit really hard. Military and police zombies have helmets and bulletproof vests that turn your attacks into Scratch Damage, if they don't No-Sell them completely. When they show up, your best target stops being the head and starts being the legs. Aftermath has the Chargers. It's not that hard to dodge their charges if you see them coming and you're in an open area. IF. If you don't, say goodbye to about three bars of health (you max out at seven, by the way) and enjoy your VERY significant amount of stamina damage. They're also complete walls of HP with or without the body armor they'll start wearing once you reach the final sector. Additionally, the final sector is home of the drone guns you may have seen notes about throughout the game. They can be destroyed, but if they notice you first, they can cut you down in seconds... if you're THAT lucky. Goddamned Bats: Zombie dogs are fast and a nuisance but deal very little damage to the barricade in the first two games, and only moderate damage in general in Union City. Armored zombies downgrade to this in Aftermath. They're still immune to bullets while it's on and you can't normally deal damage to their bodies until it's off, but fire, explosions, and armor-piercing guns ignore the armor, and both melee attacks and bullets will slowly strip it off. Armored Chargers, however? See above. Good Bad Bugs: It's possible to lose survivors on search parties at random. This can still happen when you have no other survivors with you. Basically, the one survivor you have (yourself) can die on a search party, possibly multiple times, and still go on slaughtering zombies. In Last Stand 2, changing to your secondary weapon as the level starts gives the secondary weapon the same ammo count as your primary. If the secondary weapon is, say, the Hunting Rifle, which usually only holds one bullet, and the primary is an Uzi, which holds 50, the zombies don't really stand much of a chance. In the first game, if you switch to your other weapon while firing an automatic weapon, the other weapon will have the first weapon's firing rate, even if it is also an automatic weapon. This makes the slower-firing but harder-hitting Magnum revolver more effective as the UMP 45 and it are the first two weapons found and the chainsaw counts as an automatic. When used on the pump shotgun or M82 Barrett, the game becomes substantially easier. Nightmare Fuel: The death scene involves your character being tackled to the ground and eaten alive by zombies as he visibly screams and tries to fight them off. Only lessened by the Have a Nice Death message. Some of the notes in Union City can count too. For example, there is a very poorly spelled note from a little girl whose nanny told her to leave a goodbye note to her mother. Some of the Junk items in Dead Zone can do this to. One of the junk items that can be found are Teddy Bears, whose description says it all - "A child's stuffed animal that has seen better days." The fact that some of the containers the survivors in Union City and Dead Zone can loot are fallen survivors, who obviously fell to the infected, or some other horrible mishap. Nightmare Retardant: Many of the notes were community submitted and contain high levels of Narm. Narm Charm: Some of them can still be unsettling and plausible, given how this is a Zombie Apocalypse. Tear Jerker: In a meta example, with the end of Flash, the first four games will soon be no longer playable online after December 31, 2020. Players of Dead Zone have been telling each other their respective Good-Byes, and where else they can find one another. However, the developers released The Last Stand: Legacy Collection on Steam and GOG in 2021, which includes the first three games. 781b155fdc