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WORLD WAR Z

Game tie-ins are in a weird league of their own, but few are as strange as the subset of titles released more than half a decade after the project they were designed to cash in on. This is the position World War Z is in, and rather than following the zombie-slaying adventures of a polygonal Brad Pitt soundalike the game settles for being set in the same universe. This opens the door to

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