History VideoGame / RoadOfTheDead

* Series Continuity Error: at the end at the sequel john has black hair, where as in the first game he has black hair.

*** Becomes a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}} when you've gone 20 minutes on a single run, your windshield smashed, all four tires blown for the past 5 or 6 minutes, engine block on fire, swerving all over the place, already injured from gunfire, and knowing that the next crash *will* blow the car, and then having an Apache sweep in and hearing Creasman shout out the above line.

* ScreamDiscretionShot: If a zombie manages to get into your car before you can shake or shoot it off, the screen turns to black and you hear some very unpleasant screaming, followed by the sounds of a certain something chewing on a certain someone's flesh,however in the sequel the background turns red if you die(unless it's a explosion that kills the person driving).

* ScreamDiscretionShot: If a zombie manages to get into your car before you can shake or shoot it off, the screen turns to black and you hear some very unpleasant screaming, followed by the sounds of a certain something chewing on a certain someone's flesh,.

* One-hit kill:The pistol in the first game.

* ScreamDiscretionShot: If a zombie manages to get into your car before you can shake or shoot it off, the screen turns to black and you hear some very unpleasant screaming, followed by the sounds of a certain something chewing on a certain someone's flesh.

* {{one-hit kill}}:The pistol in the first game.

* {{one-hit kill}}:The pistol in the first game.

* {{one-hit kill:The pistol in the first game.

* one hit kill:The pistol in the first game.

** [[spoiler: Sherman tries this on Cocheta in the sequel. [[GenreSavvy He doesn't buy it.]]]]

* BoringButPractical: the starting pistol in Road of the Dead 2. It's not much at the beginning of the game, and you'll want the other guns for the damage that they do. But the pistol has infinite ammo, cheap upgrades, and a pretty decent reload time right from the beginning. Dedicate enough grinding towards it, and before long, it'll get you through most situations, all without having to stop for ammo afterwards.

* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: The mechanic from the first game has a brief one in the sequel's story. Amusingly, Cocheta and Diane [[CallBack refer to him as a jackass]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Cocheta calls out General Sherman for [[spoiler:choosing to nuke the city, and for initially refusing to help him and Diane by asking, "Are your medals and pins worth anything, sir, ''or are you THE BIGGEST COWARD I'VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE?''" Sherman then agrees to help the two soldiers.]]

* ShoutOut: In the first game, if Creasman runs over a civilian, he'll call them a [[NightOfTheLivingDead1990 "bunch of yo-yos"]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Are your medals and pins worth anything, sir, or are you THE BIGGEST COWARD I'VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE?" [[spoiler:Sherman agrees to help the two soldiers.]]

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: When a civilian, soldier, or zombie is caught in a carpet bombing, they will gib as if they were splatter killed.

* [[spoiler: TheStinger: A brief one in [=RoTD 2=] showing the mechanic from the first game leaving in his car... Being unknowingly followed by several mutants. [[JumpScare While one jumps at the camera]].]]

* TooDumbToLive: The civilians. They keep running in front of your car or in your line of fire. Using your horn helps sometimes, but not always. (Anyhow, why they hear your horn, but not your machine gun, is beyond anyones guess). They are even to stupid to enter a safehouse if they are right in front of it. You have to stop to get them in your car, and then in the safehouse. The civilan drivers are worst. You might think it is a good idea to stop if a military Humvee firing a roof mounted machine gun crosses your road, but they prefer to ram it.

* [[spoiler: LetThemDieHappy: With the nuclear detonation just two minutes away and troops still left in the city, General Sherman assures them that the choppers will be there to evacuate them soon, and that they have made him proud.]]

* [[spoiler: NukeEm]]

* [[spoiler: OutrunningTheFireball]]

* AllForNothing: The nuke kills alot of civilians in the city, only for it to fail to stop the zombies. Cocheta even points this out to General Sherman when he tells him that he "Sacrificed them all for nothing."

* EldritchAbomination: The mutants; their biography claims that they have [[BodyHorror eaten all of their skin off and reduced to fleshy muscles and slightly revealing bones]] thanks to the severe infection.

''Road of the Dead'' is an UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash game on Website/{{Newgrounds}} about John Creasman, a car mechanic who must escape a city currently suffering from a ZombieApocalypse. He must also charge through military checkpoints that save his progress. It is playable [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/550714 here]].