A New Sub-genre?

[RevJackson]

 With the new movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and perhaps a later book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, I was wondering if any designers had given thought to game scenarios involving such a twist on canonical literature and even history. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/17/zombie-austen-lincoln-vampire

[Justin Nichol - BFG]

There are many. Two that come immediately to mind are from the same designer I believe. Deadlands is one, and Weird Wars is the other. Another is Godlike by Greg Stolze in which characters play Superheros in World War 2. I'm sure there are many more I am not immediately remembering. I also remember a Board Game, the name of which escapes me that was the Civil War except with Yetis or something like that. Silly, very fun stuff.

[chronoplasm]

If you are talking about zombies specifically, I would steer clear of it to tell the truth.
Zombies are really popular, it's true, but the market is starting to get really oversaturated with them. I can't look at anything with zombies in it without groaning "Please, no more zombies!" and I know a lot of people who feel the same way. It's a lot like steampunk; a novel concept at first that gets really cliche really fast.