I'm just not sure "chomper" was the right name for something whose elongated legs are its most striking feature and the majority of its mass. These could have mutated from humans, reptiles, dogs, cats, horses, deer, who knows. These gangly, towering creatures, on the other hand, are among the game's faster and deadlier foes. Demonstrating that alien spore mutants might not always turn out competent, this blind, naked, legless bird apparently just flops around helplessly, unable to even fly with its distorted little wings! I'll take ten. This is one of my favorite types of video game creature one that just exists for atmosphere and can't actually hurt you. I can't not like a mutated bug of any sort, but the "fire tick" doesn't look that much like a tick, and as cute as it is, it's probably the least impressive enemy in the game, except for maybe the "scuttlebugs," which are so small, simple and nondescript I hardly need to show them. I've vowed to review every monster that I can, but some of them are less impressive than others.
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Its limbs are reduced to little more than tendrils, its eyes are grown over with skin and its bloated body looks more like a huge maggot than a mutated vertebrate, which is fitting, because it also serves as the living, immobile nesting site of parasitic, bloodsucking inse- hey, that's MY schtick! They're even mutated flies! It's impossible to tell what the Deathbellows used to be. There are actually several different monsters that could be the next step in Cudgel's metamorphosis. Obviously, these monsters are developing into something else, but it doesn't sound like the game is totally clear on what.
This more advanced "zombie" is so overgrown with new flesh that its arms are beginning to atrophy, and its head blends almost completely in with its many featureless lumps and boils.
Some things just work better when they're a little more crude. That shrunken, ghostly face is so perfect, I feel like it would only be ruined if the in-game model were any higher resolution. Whatever these growths represent, they've sucked everything they can out of their human host, leaving just enough to still get around. The thing erupting from its back really does look a lot like a morel, though there's also some sort of root or spike projecting out from this poor sap's rib cage. Let's start with the game's basic infested human, its "zombie" equivalent, leaps and bounds more interesting and unnerving than any Resident Evil zombie. It's yet another of those games I've never played, but have admired the designs of for some time, and neither the previous nor subsequent X-com titles seem to have ever featured such a wild array of horrific beasties.
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"UFO: Aftermath" was a PC game released in 2003 as part of the "X-com" series, set in the far-flung future of 2004 after aliens called Reticulans seeded our world with mutagenic, infectious spores, a disgusting undifferentiated "biomass" taking over entire vast areas of our planet and transforming wildlife into twisted, vicious monsters.
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