Dying Light: The Following (Xbox One)

Techland's Dying Light is an absolutely essential zombie game packed full of excellent parkour action and gruesomely satisfying combat that takes place in an impressively vertical city setting. Dying Light: The Following adds to this by introducing a huge slice of countryside rambling to proceedings, giving players a customisable dune buggy and unleashing them on a zombie-infested map that's roughly twice the size of that seen in the base game.

There's skills and weapons galore here, tons of customisation options and a storyline that gets going far more quickly than that of the original game. With some truly excellent quests to get stuck into as Kyle Crane investigates a creepy cult, and a few nice twists along the way, Dying Light: The Following is fantastic, free-wheeling slice of zombie-slaying mayhem that comes packaged with the fantastic original game and all of its various additional modes, making for a truly outstanding package.

  • Xbox Game Pass? No

Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360)

It may have arrived just a year after the original game but Valve's follow-up is far from a quick cash-in. Left 4 Dead 2 takes everything that was good about its predecessor and expands and improves upon it in meaningful ways.

This sequel delivers the same pulse-pounding, nerve-shredding co-operative gameplay, never shying away from its focus on teamwork as the most important and fundamental aspect of proceedings. It then adds more spectacular environments, tons of excellent melee weapons, more fully-fleshed campaigns, impressive set-pieces, and an even better AI Director throwing all manner of random carnage your besieged party's way. This one has aged supremely well and is still, eleven years later, one of the absolute best zombie-slaying experiences you can have on Xbox.

  • Xbox Game Pass? No

Resident Evil (Xbox One)

The first of a handful of Resident Evil titles on our list, this HD remaster of the original survival horror experience delivers a glorious revamp of a true gaming masterpiece and affords younger gamers, and us old tadgers alike, the opportunity to revisit the Spencer Mansion to find out what all the fuss was about back in Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six.

Resident Evil absolutely still retains the power to shock and terrify all these years later and its clever mix of slow-paced combat, excellent puzzles and cloying, claustrophobic setting still works perfectly to this day. With sympathetically revamped visuals and new control options for those who simply cannot tank, this is a zombie horror classic that's a must-play experience some twenty five years down the road from its original release. You owe it to yourself to play this one.

  • Xbox Game Pass? No

Resident Evil 2 (Xbox One)

This ground-up remake of Resident Evil 2 is a stunning piece of work that takes the already fantastic original game and turns it into one of the very best horror titles of the modern console age.

Resident Evil 2's Raccoon City Police Department is the star of the show here without a doubt, a labyrinthian puzzle box stuffed full of secrets and deadly foes that looks and sounds absolutely incredible thanks to the power of the brand new RE Engine. Your first playthrough here will leave you aghast at just how spectacular a remake this is, and repeat returns will see you fall into that addictive rhythm of hoovering up secrets, unlocking new weapons and outfits, and shaving vital time off your runs in order to secure the very best ranking possible. Resident Evil 2 is a bonafide modern masterpiece.

  • Xbox Game Pass? No

Resident Evil 4 (Xbox One)

We couldn't leave it off, could we? Resident Evil 4 may not have been treated to a full-on remake just yet, but it really doesn't need one if you ask us. This is still one of the great action video games of all time, a rollicking rollercoaster ride that sees players face off against zombie hordes in sequences that blew minds back when it originally released and still pack a punch today.

The slow-moving survival horror of the first three Resi games gives way to blockbuster action here as Leon Kennedy gets to grips with the Los Illuminados. From its grand-standing onslaught of an opening in a creepy Spanish village, right up to its fully ludicrous ending, Resident Evil 4 is top-notch zombie-slaying action that's just as good today, in its original form, as it was back in 2005.

  • Xbox Game Pass? No

Resident Evil Village (Xbox Series X|S)

Our final Resi entry on the list, Resident Evil Village may have swapped out zombies for the most part in favour of lycanthropic nasties and vampires, but we reckon the Moroaica are close enough to the shuffling undead that we get away with sticking this latest entry in the franchise in here anyway.

Resident Evil Village delivers some supremely slick action that surprises and delights in equal measure as you investigate its spectacular setting as returning protagonist, Ethan Winters. This 8th game drops the full force, and often stomach-churning, horror of its most immediate predecessor in favour of action that harkens back to Resident Evil 4. It's less claustrophobic, more action-oriented, full of ridiculously OTT set-pieces and we wouldn't have it any other way. With scope for multiple paythroughs in the classic Resi style, this is a super solid addition to the storied franchise that everyone should check out.

  • Xbox Game Pass? No

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