History VideoGame / LabOfTheDead

''Lab of the Dead'' is an UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash game on Website/{{Newgrounds}} and the storyline sequel to ''VideoGame/RoadOfTheDead''. It is about a scientist who is actually studying zombies ''psychologically'' in order to find ways to control them. Unlike other ZombieApocalypse games, there is no danger of being eaten by a zombie, instead being focused on discovering things about zombies. It is playable [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581901 here]].

* AuthorAppeal: The music player's aggressive reaction has some poorly sounding rap track playing on it. The game's author is definitely trying to get some message across.

** The Advanced Reaction for the loaded pistol and cell phone are ones to ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985''.

* SoleSurvivingScientist: The main character is a sole surviving researcher following in the footsteps of the original dead scientists.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: [[spoiler:Make a zombie have low mood and high humanity, shoot it in the legs, then give it a loaded handgun. Surprisingly, this does not result in the zombie killing itself or you--although they will try sometimes if given an empty handgun on low moods.]]
* WholePlotReference: It is, for all intents and purposes, ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'' with very little in the way of any major differences except for some backstory behind the S14 virus's creation and [[spoiler:the MadScientist killing everyone in his party.]]

* ShoutOut: The Advanced Reaction for the loaded pistol and cell phone are ones to ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985''.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:You cannot turn Zombies back even at 100% Mood and Humanity. Then, your fellow survivors turn on you, forcing you to either kill or infect them. The Game ends when you reach 100% completion and leaves the facility to become TheAloner.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The military general who was allowing the scientist to work in the lab finds the notes the scientist was collecting about the previous owners of the lab, and then uses science in general as a scapegoat for all their problems, and, basically, praises the military for not being that dumb. After he ends up dead, the scientist finds evidence that points at the ''opposite'' view, where the previous scientist eventually tried to prevent the outbreak by destroying the notes on the virus, and the military kills her, on orders and attempts to brute force the situation back to stable.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: In one of the scientist's notes, after you kill the soldiers by injecting them, he will state: "I didn't want it to come to this, but they gave me no choice."

* ZombieApocalypse: Naturally

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: You cannot turn Zombies back even at 100% Mood and Humanity. Then, your fellow survivors turn on you, forcing you to either kill or infect them. The Game ends when you reach 100% completion and leaves the facility to become TheAloner.]]

* MadScientist: [[spoiler: The player, especially after murdering the military squad.]]

* ViolationOfCommonSense: [[spoiler: Make a zombie have low mood and high humanity, shoot it in the legs, then give it a loaded handgun. Surprisingly, this does not result in the zombie killing itself or you--although they will try sometimes if given an empty handgun on low moods.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Naturally

* ViolationOfCommonSense: [[spoiler: Make a zombie have low mood and high humanity, shoot it in the legs, then give it a loaded handgun. Surprisingly, this does not result in a game over!]]
** [[spoiler: And this is show to be a bad idea as well, if you get the special reaction from the empty handgun, the zombie TRIES TO SHOOT YOU!]]
** Want to get some good reactions? Piss off the zombie first so it gets a certain reaction, then make it happy again.
** Zombies sometimes do this in universe, trying to eat things that clearly should not. With the fan, it results in the zombie losing its jaw even if you never did anything to damage it

''Lab of the Dead'' is an UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash game on {{Newgrounds}} and the storyline sequel to ''VideoGame/RoadOfTheDead''. It is about a scientist who is actually studying zombies ''psychologically'' in order to find ways to control them. Unlike other ZombieApocalypse games, there is no danger of being eaten by a zombie, instead being focused on discovering things about zombies. It is playable [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581901 here]].

* IDidWhatIHadTo: In one of the scientist's notes, after you kill the soldiers by injecting them, he will state: "I didn't want it to come to this, but they gave me no choice."

''Lab of the Dead'' is an AdobeFlash game on {{Newgrounds}} and the storyline sequel to ''VideoGame/RoadOfTheDead''. It is about a scientist who is actually studying zombies ''psychologically'' in order to find ways to control them. Unlike other ZombieApocalypse games, there is no danger of being eaten by a zombie, instead being focused on discovering things about zombies. It is playable [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581901 here]].

** [[spoiler: DownplayedTrope. He has enough sanity to realize what he just did was twisted, and seems to regret it greatly and was acting out of stress. Despite any excuse, he still notes he should ''not'' have done that.]]

* ShoutOut: The Advanced Reaction for the loaded pistol and cell phone are ones to ''DayOfTheDead''.

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: You cannot turn Zombies back even at 100% Mood and Humanity. Then, your fellow survivors turn on you, forcing you to either kill or infect them. The Game ends when you reach 100% completion and leaves the facility to become TheAloner.]]

* [[spoiler: GovernmentConspiracy: Goes with the genre, as it is eventually revealed that the S-14 virus was created by the government.]]

* [[spoiler: MadScientist: The player, especially after murdering the military squad.]]

* PlayerPunch: At one point in the game a zombie gets killed without player input. Zombies need to learn things and only that specific zombie remembers it. This can upset players for various reasons. Another example is having to do the kill yourself in order to have the reactions noted.

''Lab of the Dead'' is an AdobeFlash game on {{Newgrounds}} and the storyline sequel to ''VideoGame/RoadOfTheDead''. It is about a scientist who must discover a cure to zombie-ism. Unlike other ZombieApocalypse games, there is no danger of being eaten by a zombie, instead being focused on discovering things about zombies. It is playable [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581901 here]].

* ShoutOut: The Advanced Reaction for the loaded pistol is one to ''DayOfTheDead''.

''Lab of the Dead'' is an AdobeFlash game on {{Newgrounds}} and the sequel to ''VideoGame/RoadOfTheDead''. It is about a scientist who must discover a cure to zombie-ism. Unlike other ZombieApocalypse games, there is no danger of being eaten by a zombie, instead being focused on discovering things about zombies. It is playable [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581901 here]].

''Lab of the Dead'' is an AdobeFlash game on {{Newgrounds}} about a scientist who must discover a cure to zombie-ism. Unlike other ZombieApocalypse games, there is no danger of being eaten by a zombie, instead being focused on discovering things about zombies. It is playable [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581901 here]].