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"Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse" is a blog post made in May 2011 [1] by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that uses a zombie apocalypse to raise public awareness of emergency preparedness. [2]
In the game, racers participate in a three-day festival in a decaying city known as The City, which is the aftermath of a natural disaster. The game is the first in the series to feature an urban setting, as opposed to natural environments. The game has a single-player mode with 40 tracks across three difficulty levels.
The video game The Long Dark (2017) depicts survival in the wilderness of northern Canada during winter after a geomagnetic disaster has disabled all modern technology. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (2002) features a world where a magic flood destroyed all settlements that were not located on mountain peaks.
An uncompleted mod for Half-Life 2 hosted by Mod DB, School Shooter was condemned in the mainstream media and within industry publications for making a violent video game where the protagonist is a school shooter who kills defenseless targets. [175] [176] [177] In response to the controversy, Mod DB pulled the game from its website. [178] 2011 ...
Survivalism is a social movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists, doomsday preppers or preppers [1] [2]) who proactively prepare for emergencies, such as natural disasters, and other disasters causing disruption to social order (that is, civil disorder) caused by political or economic crises.
The plot of Urban Assault is set in the near future, where a set of hazardous natural and artificial disasters involving ozone depletion caused by the global industrial emissions, termed The Big Mistake, results in toxin generation and eventually destruction of the ocean's phytoplankton, causing the Earth's food chain to collapse gradually and ...
[22] [23] [24] A disaster happens when a natural or human-made hazard impacts a vulnerable community. It results from the combination of the hazard and the exposure of a vulnerable society. Nowadays it is hard to distinguish between natural and human-made disasters. [21] [25] [26] The term natural disaster was already challenged in 1976. [24]
Calling the game the top video game disaster, Buchanan credits Pac-Man as a factor to the downfall of Atari and the industry in the 1980s. [14] Author Steven L. Kent also attributes the game, along with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, to severely damaging the company's reputation and profitability. [15]