Why are there no child zombies?

[Larry the Cacodemon]

I think it would be really cool and scary if there were child headcrab zombies. It's not realistic to think no children got headcrabed during the combine invasion so why are there no child headcrab zombies???

[Jimmy McGill]

Most of the zombies we see are probably from long after the seven hour war. Most more infested areas, like Ravenholm, were infested fairly recently. I believe zombies do not have such a long lifespan, and given the suppression field, all child zombies would have decayed by now.

Also, the game would have been completly banned in Australia and Germany and have gotten a much higher ESRB rating thingy.

[Larry the Cacodemon]

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

Most of the zombies we see are probably from long after the seven hour war. Most more infested areas, like Ravenholm, were infested fairly recently. I believe zombies do not have such a long lifespan, and given the suppression field, all child zombies would have decayed by now.

Also, the game would have been completly banned in Australia and Germany and have gotten a much higher ESRB rating thingy.

Oh yea, I had forgotten about the Combine attempt's to prevent human breeding. That actually makes the lack of child zombies completely logical within the game's context. Still, that isn't actually the case anymore fallowing episode 2, so future Half-life games could have child zombies!

As for ratings, you do realize that the Dead Space games have EXPLODING CHILDREN in it, right?

[JaguarFox]

its possible that might have been planned but scraped in the beta when the had the child workers planned but i can see why cause shooting headcrab zombie versions of them can be seen as unethnical or disturbing

[Carnage]

In the Half Life 2 beta there was supposed to be children, the combine capture all of the children and force them into working at a factory.
I would hate to see children die in any game, I can't

[Captain Crook]

Originally posted by hakkarin:

I think it would be really cool and scary if there were child headcrab zombies. It's not realistic to think no children got headcrabed during the combine invasion so why are there no child headcrab zombies???

there are no childs in hl2 period

[Nicodemo Gommorah #TransGaming]

In the lore of the series, To put it blunt. combine basically destroyed what's neccessary to have sex, and no sex=no children. and no children=no children headcrab zombies.

[Larry the Cacodemon]

Originally posted by Pinhead Larry:

In the lore of the series, To put it blunt. combine basically destroyed what's neccessary to have sex, and no sex=no children. and no children=no children headcrab zombies.

Combine never made it impossible for people to have sex, they just made sure that no children could result from it.

[Nicodemo Gommorah #TransGaming]

Originally posted by hakkarin:

Originally posted by Pinhead Larry:

In the lore of the series, To put it blunt. combine basically destroyed what's neccessary to have sex, and no sex=no children. and no children=no children headcrab zombies.

Combine never made it impossible for people to have sex, they just made sure that no children could result from it.

Yea, but that's kinda why we're supposed to have sex...well...we also grew to enjoy it, but you kinda understand my point.

[Keksut]

Originally posted by Ahmad (Carnage):

In the Half Life 2 beta there was supposed to be children, the combine capture all of the children and force them into working at a factory.
I would hate to see children die in any game, I can't

So I take it you passed on dead space 2 then

[alhashby]

Realistic? Um.... lol

[ThisIsMyToon]

I agree with alhashby. lol

[Retrotude]

Originally posted by Pinhead Larry:

In the lore of the series, To put it blunt. combine basically destroyed what's neccessary to have sex, and no sex=no children. and no children=no children headcrab zombies.

Actually, IIRC, the suppression field both suppresses the urge to procreate and "pauses" the reproductive functions of making Earth's citizens, in case anyone actually tries to.

[GuNNuP]

Because they simply didn't put them in the game... because there isn't any need for the extra models at the time.

[kote]

well, that's could be really cool, but vavlve are too lazy for that, if they made at least 2 or 3 models of simple zombie, but no, we're playing in town/forest/cave/or any other location which is full of CLONED "infected" people, rly, they have different human models, but zombies are always the same, don't counting poison or this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ screamer-runner, but even there we can see lazyness of valve, all of zombies (i mean all, each zombie in the game) have one face

[Nrg117]

Originally posted by hakkarin:

I think it would be really cool and scary if there were child headcrab zombies. It's not realistic to think no children got headcrabed during the combine invasion so why are there no child headcrab zombies???

Because they are especially tasty ofc ..