So, okay: in the future, mutant zombies will take over and be smart enough to enslave all of us. But there will be one last hope for all those of us who weren't up to the task of defeating them? A justice bringer? And we will know him as...Shaq?
I thought the era of Shaq-Fu, Kazaam and the cinematic version of Steel was behind us, but am delighted to be proven wrong. Today on iOS and Android, you can play ShaqDown and relive the era when we honestly thought basketball stardom could successfully translate into every other form of entertainment - a reboot of Space Jam is surely not far behind.
Think Shaq versus zombies is preposterous fiction? Listen, I'll show you preposterous fiction: Shaq's free throws actually working out and being effective in any way. Wait, that actually happens in the game too? Bust out the Saturn award for sci-fi already.
Gameplay trailer (along with some fun bonuses!) after the jump:
And just for fun...
Source: Kotaku via SlyDante.
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A reboot of Space Jam would explain why the movie's official website is still up and running 16 years later. Warner Bros still hasn't given up hope. Maybe the sequel will have an evil clone of Michael Jordan that wears a Hitler stache.
@eustache_dauger If it doesn't end with the Chaos Dunk destroying New York, I will demand my money back. And declare it non-canon.
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Meh. As impressive a glorious failure as this is, I think I'll just hold out for a Michael Jordan: Chaos in The Windy City successor instead. http://youtu.be/3JOb9t5Dj5c
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Okay, so I just realized this after watching the preview. . . so according to obligatory distressed little girl voice heralding the chosen one (TM), the people are being ENSLAVED by the zombies. Not eaten. Enslaved.
So, then. . . Shaqner is to zombies as Meyer is to vampires? Thoughts?
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@rabidronnie My, as funny as I'm capable of, answer : The game has eaten all of my thoughts.
My regular answer (coincidentally also not funny) As I was saying to Luke, like the planets, were we need to get an actual definition of what is, and is not, a Zombie.
Maybe these creatures feed off of thoughts instead of brains.
Real Answer: Shaq publicist to exec from the 90's going, "who cares, it's Shaq, it'll sell."
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@skrag2112 @10glfan59 Yes, the lingerie invasion of 1999. They tried to kill us with Y2K. Luckily Shaq didn't know the meaning of Y2K,
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@skrag2112 Ummmm, DUH! DIDN'T YOU SEE THE ZOMBIES???? How more relevant can you get?? So you see, long lost paychec--I mean, marketing department, that is why I, Shaqner--I mean, Mr. O'Neal, Esq., should be the focus of this new app thingy that is crazily popular and making lots of money--I mean, capturing the hearts of a new generation.
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Well it was this or one of those dating simulation games. I think they were going to call it Shaq up.
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Has Shaq approved this because he knows not to take himself seriously, or because he takes himself THIS seriously?
If the answer is the latter, I hereby dub Shaquille O'Neal to be the William Shatner of the sporting world. He hall henceforth be known as. . . "Shaqner."
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oooooh, guys, they're giving us SIX minutes to edit posts now. My cup runneth over.
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@10glfan59 Actually it is just that they know with you guys it is an honest mistake where they know I am hopeless and really do not know how to spell or anything about those things you know those things that are in words that stop and slow down words so your sentence does not keep going on and on without stopping you know those thingies
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@Someguy @rabidronnie But within the first two minutes, so we're still on equal footing. DO YOU HEAR ME, MVN? EQUAL FOOTING. I CAN EDIT JUST AS QUICKLY AS ANYBODY ELSE. HONEST.
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@Someguy @rabidronnie Hmmmmm . . . . Perhaps MVN is sending me subtle messages about my typing skills. . . .
"Here's an extra minute, sweetheart, in case you. . . ya know, missed something. . . like maybe right there. . . hypothetically, of course."
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So is Shaq supposed to be ironically entertaining now?
Because A) I wasn't here during his era of fame and B) I prefer sarcastically entertaining.
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@DisasterpieceMRK @Gallen_Dugall How is the spiritual successor to Shag Fu NOT nerd news?
@SlyDante777 @DisasterpieceMRK @Gallen_Dugall because this is just some crap game trying to make money of of charles barkley shut up and jam gaiden or whatever its called. making this an ad
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@DisasterpieceMRK @Gallen_Dugall no news is good news
but if you go down to yesterday's umbrella post you can read about the new documentary I'm working on - Attenborough is involved!
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Wasn't there a comic book about that, only without Shaq? I remember thinking Zombieland was going to be about that comic (whose name I can't for the life of me remember) and that Woody Harrelson was going to be the king zombie, but that was incredibly wrong.
