Zombie MMO Announced
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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.
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November 24th, 2009 at 4:40 am
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)
November 24th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
“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.
November 24th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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.