Incident Z

Incident Z is a FPS RPG video game based on Zombies and is developed by Techland released in November 30 2016 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

Story
The opening shows the player at a party at a beach house in the city of New Wealth, however after a couple of drinks, the player passes out where, before completely falling asleep, Zombies are shown attacking everyone at the party and starting to kill everyone. The player then wakes up in the beach house full of corpses and blood at night, finding a weapon and discovering an deadly virus is spreading throughout the city which is transforming victims into Zombies and one of the corpses reanimates, forcing the player to kill it and escape the beach house. After going through the panicking streets, the player is rescued by a group of survivors and brought to a safehouse named Sanctuary where the player joins them and meets many members: group leader Jason Wrecks, runner instructor Oscar Terrence, Dr. Terry Campbell, cleaner and medic Jade Princess, weapons master Ryan Belinsky and the many runners including Amiela and Brody Vipers.

After managing to rescue a member of the group from Zombies, the player becomes a runner and receives both parkour and combat training from Oscar. Oscar sends the player on the task of collecting supplies throughout the streets while explaining the strategy of using high ground to evade the infected, and then an airdrop of supplies is dropped from a plane, sparking the attention of the player. However, the airdrop is surrounded by numerous survivors so the player arrives and they attack, forcing the player to kill them and raid the supplies from the airdrop. However, one of their radios is heard from their boss so the player decides to answer it, with the one on the other end introducing himself as Paladin King, leader of a group of aggressive and violent survivors, and welcomes the player to the new world. After a conversation with King claiming he'll hopefully get to meet him/her soon, King hangs up and the player delivers the supplies to Sanctuary where Oscar congratulates on the victory.

The player meets Jason in his office, which is revealed he is a young daughter named Samantha Wrecks, who he swears to take care of even as a leader of a group and after his wife's death, and so congratulates the player on becoming a runner and gaining supplies for them, handing over some cash as a reward. Jason then states that they are running low on medical supplies and has a plan to gain more hopefully from airdrops, stating that King will send more men to kill any runners so the player has to work with Amiela, Brody and Carlos Williams to steal more at night by having Ryan set up traps at night for protection. The player and the runners go at night however Carlos is killed by the more dangerously transformed infected at night once they raided the airdrops, finding medicine, and they escape with their lives back to Sanctuary.

They report of Carlos' death with Oscar mourning, however informs the player that King wishes to spark a "war" between both groups and wants the player to scout out his safehouse. The player manages to be disguised as a sole survivor, meeting King, who is in the middle of punishing some thieves brutally, then has a conversation with the player and appears to be a calm and respected man but hides his nature as a cold psychopath. The player claims that he was just passing through however King then wants the player to have a feast with him, saying no survivor should be left alone and the player follows to have a feast with King, the original safehouse owner Evan Nivans and another survivor named Bill. After a conversation between the two, King reveals he became an "inspirational authority figure" and "is maintaining peace but is having trouble with a group of troublemakers". Bill, texting on his phone for help, King stabs him in the back with a knife and forces him to shout for help, then has Evan and two other men to torture Bill to find out what he knows with King accompanying them, telling the player to stay there and enjoy the food until he gets back.

The player however escapes the room and when King and his men return, the player escapes to go rescue Bill. After freeing Bill and giving coordinates to Sanctuary, the player manages to capture Evan and returns to Sanctuary. Midway to Sanctuary, King calls the player back and states his/her actions were rude but is willing to forgive if he/she gives back Evan but the player refuses and hangs up. The player then meets Jason, who is glad of Evan's capture and Bill's rescue, stating that he is seeing a good future in the player before going to interrogate Evan.

After a series of missions for the survivors and even missions involving raiding King's compounds, it is revealed at Campbell's laboratory that she had been kidnapped by King with King claiming "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours". King then manages to capture the player and sends him/her to the arena, forcing him/her to fight Zombies for survival. After clearing out the waves, King is impressed and wanted the player to join him, but then stabs Campbell and tosses her into the arena, giving the job of executing them to the arena master: Elena Right. Campbell dies from her wounds and the player manages to kill Elena and escapes, with King calling to reveal that he has collected half of the research needed to find a cure and wants to go after another scientist named Dr. Henry Underon for the other half, wondering why the player want to stop him from saving the world.

Jason is distraught by Campbell's death, revealing he sent Amiela and Brody to take the research back from King, when the player wants to go after him too, Jason instead gives him/her the job of protecting Sanctuary if King's army wants to attack. Eventually, they do attack and the player repels the attackers however King's right hand woman and the one who commands his forces, Rachel Sugarson, had kidnapped Samantha and is threatening to execute her if the runners aren't called back and surrender completely. Jason, desperate, calls back Brody and Amiela, so the player goes on a stealth mission to infiltrate King's safehouse and rescue Samantha from Rachel but finds Brody and Amiela, who are hiding in the compound, and the three to work together to complete the mission in getting the research and rescuing Samantha. The player attempts to convince Rachel in letting her go however she then goes to shoot her however Brody takes the shot, so Amiela and Rachel have a brutal fight while the player hides Samantha to join in the fight. Rachel injures Amiela, and the player fights and defeats Rachel, interrogating her and discovers of King's whereabouts before executing her with her own weapon.

Amiela and the player return Samantha to the Sanctuary, with Jason thanking them and wants to protect the research, sending the two to find Underon and they do in his underground laboratories filled with infected and the player has Amiela protect him while he/she goes after King. However, King's men invades the laboratories, so the player goes to clear them out before going. However, Oscar is found in an abandoned tram where he is bit by Zombies going after King and asks the player to take him out before he turns, so the player hesitantly does so. For all he caused, the player fights through King's tower and confronts him on the rooftop which is not guarded at all like the other floors filled with armed guards and infected. The player confronts King, who is calmly eating dinner even with a weapon prepared to kill him, and the corpses of his underlings including Rachel and Evan, who was executed by King, and even recalls the time they tried this which led to the player killing his army.

The player then sits down in the chair at the end, having the choice to eat or not, and King explains his plans to use the research for a more "fun" purpose rather than saving the world, but refused to go into more detail and then discusses what he had been doing and simply said his reasons were to survive and protect. King then takes out some money and hands it to the player, saying this is what he had in mind when they first met. King then shows on one of the cash of an image of himself, with the player grabbing it and it is revealed King was the wealthy son of the city's original ruler before his death. King explained he was supposed to take over and actually is during the apocalypse, so the player attempts to get back the research but King refuses and pulls out a machete, instigating a fight. After a fight, the player manages to stab King in the stomach with his own machete and in his dying words, King states that the player was his only "fun" enemy before committing sucide by jumping off the edge. The player hands over the research to Campbell and she claims they may be a cure very soon.