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Zombie-fever rages on. We’ve hacked the undead to bits in Left 4 Dead 2 and Dead Rising, slain laboratory abominations in Resident Evil, and even defended our homes against them with ferocious plant life. What we haven’t had, however, is a Massively Multiplayer Online Zombie Game. Jeff Strain, former Blizzard programmer, plans to deliver one with his return to development at Undead Labs.Undead Labs is a development team in Seattle formed for the sole purpose of creating the “definitive” Zombie MMO (MMOZ) for console gamers. IGN reports the team is shooting to inject humor, action, and tons of zombies into the stalling zombie-game trend.“Every time I see a good zombie movie with friends, we spend days debating our strategies for surviving the zombie apocalypse,” says Strain. “The police station or the supermarket? Garden rake or staple gun? Bach or The White Stripes? I’m a game developer, so I’d probably be useless for anything other than ghoul bait, but I’m excited to have the opportunity to build an MMOZ that lets us put those strategies to the test and find out for sure.”Police station or supermarket, huh? Strain’s wrong on both accounts. Everybody knows you have to flee to the country on bicycle and head up north to colder climates. Freezing weather equals frozen zombie corpses. With any hope, this fabled zombie MMO will allow self-proclaimed undead apocalypse pros such as myself to test our mettle once and for all.Strain has myriad experience programming for StarCraft, Diablo, and forming the development team of World of Warcraft. The genesis of our flesh eater-laden world appears to be in capable hands.Anybody starting to ruminate over their post-apocalyptic strategies now? What will you do when the dead begin to rise?
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Sounds like they might be able to create some fairly good games. It looks like they already have some great ideas.
Finally! The MMO I've been waiting for my whole life! Let's hope it turns out to be fun and playable.
yay! more genre oversaturation!
AWESOME!! I'll be writing more about this later
That really sounds like a good idea for an MMO. In the past, I've thought several times about an open-world zombie game, like Grand Theft Auto (because GTA is the most popular open-world game that I can think of, so I use it as the example).
Basically, you would start out as this lone survivor and throughout the game, you would find other survivors and the end goal would be to get completely out of the infected area (basically the premise for 28 Days Later). That would be an awesome game.
Definately has potential, but I can easily see this falling through. If they can pull it off it will make for a great game, theres quite alot you can do with such a concept. I've dreamed up an I Am Legend-esque game in my head a few times before, and it certainly would be awesome.
this game wail end up 2 ways, really good or really bad nothing in between. if it turns out to be an experience, i will get it.
its about time that they put MMO & zombies together
I love this idea, I do, I do, I do, BUT....there is so many things that other games have, such as Idle players for days selling items, that I wonder how they would work out in this game. Also would these be old school zombies, the hurky jerky shambling mob, or the newer sleek Porsche zombies that fly through the air; run and jump and make every survival strategy nearly null and void? Oh the potential, but you my sir have quite an ambitious project set before you.
Wow! Reading this makes me shiver with anticipation. MMOZ game, there seems to be a ton of potential in this genre especially when it comes to an MMO. If you want a great guide to surviving the zombie apocolypse then read "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks. Then read his other title "World War Z"
The only way this would work is if they put the old-school RE zombies. None of the new, more terrifying, running zombies. I want to be able to survive, not crap my pants. I want to be overwhelmed by numbers, not by being eaten to death because I made the stupid decision to reload for 2 seconds while a zombie ran at me. It should be old-school zombies (maybe I should make an acronym for that. OSZs), but maybe throw some weirder ones for fun.
This will be an interesting MMO. I cant wait for it.
This sound very cool, cant wait to hear more about this game and how their going to make the gameplay like, but i notice somthing they said, "sole purpose of creating the “definitive” Zombie MMO (MMOZ) for console gamers" does this mean there only createing it fore the Xbox or PS3 or is the PC consider a "console" also
Never mind, after reading the interview jeff said about the game, "This is a game that's designed from the ground up for console gamers" they better do something totaly unique or it just going to be like L4D or fallout but with more alot people. i personally don't think that an MMO is good on consoles. no good MMO has done well on consoles or people are so used to playing MMO of PC that you wont get the full MMO experience when its on consoles so they have a chance to really messed this up or its going to turn out really good we just have to wait and see.
It seems like they might actually pull off a MMOZ. My only wish is that they don't screw this up, and make this game unplayable to any major degree.
They are definitely on to something.
Sounds like an interesting concept. If they can put the whole thing together and make the end game interesting, I might take a look at it. That;s the one area that MMO's are struggling with, once you max out what else is left to do, and that's where WOW wins people over, just hope something comes out and competes with WOW, as I am soo sick and tired of hearing about it.
Im realy excited to play this
This sounds cool but i think it would only work for 360 because more people play online on xbox live.
If we ever had a zombie apocalypse, I'm saving my next door neighbor because shes hot. Then I'm heading to the mall. This game sounds interesting but can they pull it off, and make you what to play it.