Damn them...
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<div class="IPBDescription">Stupid thieves...</div>Ok so recently I've been REALLY bored. Played through all the Half Lifes (1 through Episode 2). Then I got to thinking and installed Halo 1 for a bit so I could complete that Story Line. There it hit me. The little "Aliens" in Halo that infect the soldiers in Halo are Head Crabs from Half Life...
Now I know most have made this connect before (I just never thought of it). However once those Alien thingies infect someone it is just like a Zombie with a Headhumper on it from the Half Lifes. Even the position of the Alien spore is the same. Just thought it to be cheeky, and thought I'd share it.
Now I know most have made this connect before (I just never thought of it). However once those Alien thingies infect someone it is just like a Zombie with a Headhumper on it from the Half Lifes. Even the position of the Alien spore is the same. Just thought it to be cheeky, and thought I'd share it.
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Made a correction for you.
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Maybe because the <BAD> Clan forums seem to be dominated by kill wh0res.
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Wrong, I love the Aliens movies and I know all about the "Face Huggers". Talking about games mere.
this one are way crazier, turning their victims into zombies, controlling their bodies, guiding them into their nest, because their are to small to drag them by themself.. creepy lil buggers
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Ampulex compressa or jewel wasp seems like your normal wasp, buzzing about and mating. But things get weird when it's time for a female to lay an egg. She finds a cockroach to make her egg's host, and proceeds to deliver two precise stings. The first she delivers to the roach's mid-section, causing its front legs buckle. The brief paralysis caused by the first sting gives the wasp the luxury of time to deliver a more precise sting to the head.
The wasp slips her stinger through the roach's exoskeleton and directly into its brain. She apparently use ssensors along the sides of the stinger to guide it through the brain, a bit like a surgeon snaking his way to an appendix with a laparoscope. She continues to probe the roach's brain until she reaches one particular spot that appears to control the escape reflex. She injects a second venom that influences these neurons in such a way that the escape reflex disappears.
From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord. The wasp takes hold of one of the roach's antennae and leads it--in the words of Israeli scientists who study Ampulex--like a dog on a leash.
The zombie roach crawls where its master leads, which turns out to be the wasp's burrow. The roach creeps obediently into the burrow and sits there quietly, while the wasp plugs up the burrow with pebbles. Now the wasp turns to the roach once more and lays an egg on its underside. The roach does not resist. The egg hatches, and the larva chews a hole in the side of the roach. In it goes.
The larva grows inside the roach, devouring the organs of its host, for about eight days. It is then ready to weave itself a cocoon--which it makes within the roach as well. After four more weeks, the wasp grows to an adult. It breaks out of its cocoon, and out of the roach as well. Seeing a full-grown wasp crawl out of a roach suddenly makes those Alien movies look pretty derivative.
And then there's the sting. Ampulex does not want to kill cockroaches. It doesn't even want to paralyze them the way spiders and snakes do, since it is too small to drag a big paralyzed roach into its burrow. So instead it just delicately retools the roach's neural network to take away its motivation. Its venom does more than make roaches zombies. It also alters their metabolism, so that their intake of oxygen drops by a third. The Israeli researchers found that they could also drop oxygen consumption in cockroaches by injecting paralyzing drugs or by removing the neurons that the wasps disable with their sting. But they can manage only a crude imitation; the manipulated cockroaches quickly dehydrated and were dead within six days. The wasp venom somehow puts the roaches into suspended animation while keeping them in good health, even as a wasp larva is devouring it from the inside
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also
worm parasites turning snails into zombies
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and this antbrain infecting worm makes ants prepare themself to get eaten by mamals as soon mamals appear.. thats crazy :p
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.. but this looks just wrong... after the maggots crawl out of the caterpillar host, the caterpillars brain got reprogrammed during the infection, helping them building a additional cocoon. also it gets super agressive, protecting the cocoon like a guard dog XD
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Which is pretty meaningless as there are numerous movies, books and real life examples of it. And if you are just counting zombies in general Half-Life was far from the first video game.
Futurama actually :P