Undead Labs, a new development studio opened by game industry veteran Jeff Strain, announced today that they are going to develop a Zombie MMO game for consoles. Strain has been apart of some of the most successful development teams in MMO history, working on World of Warcraft and Guildwars as well as non-MMO games like Starcraft and Diablo.
Undead Labs is committed to bringing to life an MMO loaded with action, humor and, of course, a whole lotta zombies, because the world doesn’t need more dragons.
At first I couldn’t really think of how a Zombie MMO would play out, I mean the Left4Dead and Dead Rising series cover it pretty well. However you can get a better picture as Strain explains their vision.
“Every time I see a good zombie movie with friends, we spend days debating our strategies for surviving the zombie apocalypse,” said 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.”
From that short description it sounds as though this could be the first survival MMO, which would be pretty cool imo. It should be interesting to see how this game starts to shape up once they layout the ground work.
You can checkout the full press release here.
I’m really thinking people should go the torchlight model and make a single player or small multiplayer game first, then make a mmorpg.
Most notably because Blizzard did just that with diablo (and argueably with the warcraft RTS series)
“Undead Labs, a new development studio opened by game industry veteran Jeff Strain, announced today that they are going to develop a Zombie MMO game for consoles.”
Hope there will be a PC version, the idea is promising, now its all up to execution.
No PC version ? seriously ? this is just sad.
MMOs come from PC, im fine having consoles versions but saying no to PC is saying no to PC gamers/MMO gamers, i hate to play console games, i only like MMOs, and now im screwed, thanks.
If they make a single player campaign they should try something like the main character is the first person infected or something cause all other zombie type games you are the last person or people alive trying to survive the apoccalypse and well everyone has already seen it.
Obviously if there was a Zombie MMO game for any console I think the first console to have it would be bought up pretty much instantly. Some people say there is too many zombie games. But then you realize how many war-games there are such as the COD series and the MOH series (too name a few), I own a PS3 but play an Xbox a lot and I thought Left 4 dead was amazing (if slightly tedious). So if this survival game was introduced then players would either play it religiously or play it and get bored of it. It would have to have many different features.
Lets burst this bubble.
I see a lot of people talking about things but doing nothing. Idealists and activist alike are a worthless pile of shit, you people sit around talking about what could be but never changing anything.
Either make the games or don’t, making neat web pages and saying you have lots of notes and ideas… No one cares about that crap, write some code, start gathering some artists, get the damn ball rolling.
@They…um they are making it, thats what the Press Release was about. Jez, calm down, its only been 3 months, it takes years to make a MMO game.
They have made multiplayer versions like call of duty world at war has nazi zombies callan.
I understand that it takes time to create a MMO. However in the wake of game failures such as Exanimus where they kept pushing things off, I would like to see better communication from UndeadLabs
Capcom made a decent Zombie online game with outbreak. I enjoyed that game a lot but not being able to aim where I wanted to on the zombies drove me nuts. L4D was incredible as far as being able to aim and shoot zombies in the face. In my opinion I would like to see a 3rd person zombie shooter because you can still aim for the head and be able to see yourself. I like being able to see character reaction when something jumps out like in resident evil. If they make an online game they should kinda do the Outbreak kinda thing with a mixture of L4D. I like being able to barricade buildings and protect yourself there.