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PostPosted: 02-16-2011 05:37 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


4-player, drop-in, melee focussed, zombie survival sandbox game.
Not much info atm, except for it's suitably grisly trailer; oddly feeling more bleak than it probably would without the mellow Lostish plodding music.
If the vid's anything to go by, it looks on pretty good form for capturing classic zombie-themed carnage with an emotional bent. More Walking Dead than Dawn of the Dead.
One to watch for zombie fans perhaps. We may not need more zombie games, but we certainly need more good ones. Plus a fairly maturely themed angle to the co-op ketchup spilling makes it sound extra saucy :up:


http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02 ... ad-island/




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The video looks pretty good



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PostPosted: 02-16-2011 06:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


off to play some L4D2 or watch some zombie movie

looks nice tho



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PostPosted: 02-16-2011 06:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Looks lovely. In game screenshots look good too, reminds me a bit of the jungles in Crysis.



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PostPosted: 02-16-2011 06:15 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This will either be a huge success or an epic failure. Would be nice to see some gameplay footage soon.



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What a fucked up video :olo:
Damn, have I been in a cave for 10 years? Those graphics look pretty fuckin' slick.
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PostPosted: 02-16-2011 10:17 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Zombie panic was somewhat bleak, it just wasn't fun.



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Damn, that's a pretty intense video.
I was greeted by YouTube with a trailer for Rage btw. I was surprised.



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PostPosted: 02-17-2011 12:20 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


zombies are the new ww2
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MKJ wrote:
zombies are the new ww2


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i know rite
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Captain Mazda wrote:
This will either be a huge success or an epic failure. Would be nice to see some gameplay footage soon.


Yes. Your logic makes perfect sense. It could never end up being just a relatively successful game, so the devs better get ready for some seppuku if it doesn't sell $1 B in the first weekend.
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I had been following this quite closely up until a year or so ago when they kinda dropped off of the radar. To see them come back with such an epic trailer is great.
As far as I remember, they were very excited about their procedural zombie damage system.

Oh yeah, the guys making this are also the team behind Chrome and Call of Juarez.
Chrome was one of those games trying to emulate the success of Halo, and was pretty good, if a little rough around the edges in that Eastern European way, but the original Call of Juarez was fantastic.Again, a few rough edges, but it gave us one of the most memorable characters in gaming with Reverend Ray. It's just a shame they watered him down somewhat when they released the prequel, Bound in Blood.
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Wow, that was a great trailer.
The no guns and ammo, instead scavenge melee weapons idea seems pretty good. As does the Crysis meets L4D meets Dead Rising look it has. Should be awesome :owned:

Memphis wrote:
We may not need more zombie games, but we certainly need more good ones.


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MKJ wrote:
zombies are the new ww2

Definitely, but zombies are fucking awesome. They need to be integrated into every genre if you ask me. Cooking Zombie. A game where you play as a ravenous undead who uses human ingredients to make the best dishes on some walking dead game show. Wii Zombie Tennis. Instead of a tennis ball you use the wiimote to whack a human brain across the court (the net is made of human flesh, naturally). Give me time, I'll think of more. I could be on to something here... :up:



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Very promising trailer, going a step beyond by trying to accomplish emotional involvement.

I hope they put as much heart into gameplay.
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is that a PC release first? or consoles ?



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Development started out on the PC if I recall correctly, so in that respect, the PC might be considered the "lead platform".
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Ingame pics look a bit hit and miss, but the actual idea behind it is fantastic... Stick some guys on an island and just let them make their own adventure. Like it.

The trailer was also amazing... This may just make me like Zombie games again, IF (and thats a big IF) the engine is half decent and not as flimsy as it looks...
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What I'm wondering is if you're standing outside on the street right in the open, how difficult is it going to be to sit there and survive. Is it going to be like easy as pie or is it going to be hard as hell.

Until I see gameplay, it's just a cinematic... although one that makes me depressed...
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leadpipe, duh



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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Captain Mazda wrote:
This will either be a huge success or an epic failure. Would be nice to see some gameplay footage soon.


Yes. Your logic makes perfect sense. It could never end up being just a relatively successful game, so the devs better get ready for some seppuku if it doesn't sell $1 B in the first weekend.


Competing against the L4D franchise will take more than a relative successful game.

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Screenshot gallery:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011- ... ot-gallery



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Just about to post this :D
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Awesome edits

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/17/dead- ... -humorous/
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this actually looks quite awesome :[
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so why the sad face :(

EDIT: oh and about those screenies, are these the scariest looking zombies in any game yet or is it just me?



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damn, that video was pretty grim
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lol, a Minecraft spoof of the trailer.



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Am I the only person that got tired of zombies after everybody were creaming their pants over CoD: WaW zombies and L4D?

Hell even before that I was already getting tired of them. Counterstrike zombie mods were retarded.

Give me biological experiments, giant robots, or something supernatural like demons and spirits that posses your buddies.



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CoD zombie modes are shit, anyone with half a mind can see that. Left 4 Dead on the other hand was a completely new style of gameplay and it sounds like Dead Island might take it to a whole new level.

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You mean like Doom 3, Dead Space, and Half-Life?



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exactly.



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Silicone_Milk wrote:
Am I the only person that got tired of zombies after everybody were creaming their pants over CoD: WaW zombies and L4D?


There's zombies and there's zombies. The fast moving, jumping and climbing zombies of L4D are something quite different from the slow moving, lurching zombies of Resident Evil.
I think someone should make an interesting game with the lurching type of zombie again.



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I think we are LONG over due for an open world zombie game an can't believe its not been done. You can say "semi done" in Dead Rising 1/2 and even there it was retardedly fun at times... You can't really compare the WAW/BO/L4D/RE zombies with what they are trying to do here, as its just so different.

I do hope there are more than 5 zombie variations in the game... Its called tagging you lazy shits, sort it out...
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you mean like Class3?

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/7 ... rcade.html
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