i like the idea but can't understand how people bitch about something so simple , i love RE because of the fun gameplay and characters, even if this isn't an original concept on capcom's part, zombies have used weapons before , i've seen it in George Romero's Day of the Dead in 1985 and Land of the Dead in 2004

I dunno. And they aren't really smart, just faster. The smarter enemies are the J'avo, but they're not zombies.

In honesty its just because they want the same sort of zombies from the previous games back, the shambling moans and groans type that want to eat you alive. Glad someone brought Bub up though =P the old school zombies wouldn't fit with new type gameplay since its all over the shoulder now so letting them use weapons to some extent is fine in my book. The only problem I have with these zombies(and bare in mind i'm going off the demo here) they just stand there when you shoot them =/ now that makes the game too easy I want them lunging towards me while i'm reloading not drinking tea and having a chat I hope Capcom fix that in the final version.

Like Bio mentioned, the smart "zombies" aren't zombies at all but a different type of enemy called J-Avo.

The reason why the actual zombies carry things like knives is because, and this is official info, they died while holding those items.

I guess people hates it because they are probably use to the classic zombie in the games. I'm actually looking forward to kick some smart zombie butt

As long as they aren't using fucking crossbows and AKs...

Edit: And Land of the Dead sucked monkey balls.

As long as they keep upgrading the weapons as much as they are upgrading the zombies then its cool with me

Umm... how is that? I would think it's like a death grip or something.

You'd think, wouldn't you? Let me introduce to my friend, Logic. A zombie is a reanimated corpse. It can walk, grab, wiggle its ears, whatever it needs to do to survive within its small cerebral capabilities. Why in the hell would a zombie that died with a knife in its hand have a death grip on that knife? Every other zombie ever is able to open and close its hands just fine, assuming it has any. Now all of a sudden, a zombie cannot open and close its hands just because it died holding something? Pure. Asinine. Bullshit.