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Specimen (ZED)
Also called: Zed, Specimen
The enemies of Tripwire's cooperative shooter Killing Floor. They fill the role of a zombie horde, attacking in waves, but in the story they are failed military clones from a biotech firm, with no dead rising.1
First appeared
2009
Killing Floor (2009)Source work
Killing Floor (2009)
Tripwire InteractiveMade in
USA
What causes it
Science gone wrong
Clones from Horzine Biotech's military cloning and genetic experiments, which developed grotesque mutations and turned on their makers.How you become one
Grown in a laboratory; they are not infected people.
Intelligence
Mindless
When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2009Killing Floor (2009)
field notes
What the sources say
1
Not undead: the 'Zeds' are mutated clones1
2
Set in London after the experiments escape1
3
All but the weakest types have a damaging special attack1
4
Their numbers scale with the number of players1
5
Every run ends with the Patriarch, a mutated and cybernetically enhanced scientist1
6
The game began in 2005 as a mod for Unreal Tournament 20041
Sources
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