Post-apocalyptic video games alive and well at E3

Video game makers must have a bleak worldview, judging by the upcoming software releases on display at the E3 interactive entertainment expo in Los Angeles this week.
Post-apocalyptic scenarios were a popular theme of major video games shown at this year’s E3 show, which ended its three-day run on Thursday.
Walking around the Los Angeles Convention Center, E3 attendees were confronted by actors in gory makeup portraying shambling zombies from such games as “The Walking Dead” by Overkill, “Dying Light 2” from Techland and “Resident Evil 2” by Capcom. Undead creatures are threats in those games as well as “Days Gone” from Sony.
Other post-apocalyptic themed games at E3 2018 included “Fallout 76” (nuclear apocalypse) from Bethesda Softworks, “Tom Clancy’s The Division 2” (viral pandemic) from Ubisoft, “Rage 2” (asteroid strike) from Bethesda, “The Last of Us: Part 2” (mutant fungus) from Sony and “Metro Exodus” (nuclear war) from Deep Silver.
At least nine major post-apocalyptic games were announced at this year’s E3.