Jason Moyer on 25/8/2010 at 19:21
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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/25/a-blood-red-state-dead-state-revealed/)
Sorry if there's already a thread for this game, but this looks potentially awesome. I like that someone's finally making a zombie-themed game that resembles the premise of the Romero films rather than just being a shooter/RPG/whatever with zombies plugged into the role of evil space marines/demons/etc.
Kuuso on 25/8/2010 at 21:14
Okay, sounds like the best game idea in years. I do wonder how the game will end - does it have one?
Muzman on 25/8/2010 at 21:22
Does sound very nice. Like The Last Stand expanded into a full game.
It'd be cool if it has no actual ending, but is balanced well enough that few actually get there to realise you can't win, only delay the inevitable. Or maybe that's just me.
Kuuso on 25/8/2010 at 21:33
Wiping out your competition just to realise that the only thing the zombies got now is you.
Vernon on 25/8/2010 at 21:33
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realise you can't win, only delay the inevitable
Yeah that sounds pretty damn good. At some point you just have to roll over and die. Though it's hardly the wish-fulfilment ending the market expects. And it would be damn hard to make up the xbox achievements!!
catbarf on 25/8/2010 at 22:41
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Honestly, the game is not about the zombies, but about how people react to a crisis and what they are willing to do to other human beings and even members of their group to stay alive or protect their own. The zombies are just a cause, like economic collapse or a massive earthquake, and it’s really the human self-preservation instinct and the survivor mentality that we’re interested in portraying.
That sounds
exactly like Romero's films (well, at least the ones that didn't totally suck). I'm excited for this game.
gunsmoke on 26/8/2010 at 02:21
Wow, Neb. Mekkalekkahimekkahineeho. You are wishing games into being! Keep going, mang!
Neb on 26/8/2010 at 03:07
Sarcasm is punishable by triple 'A' Barbie games. FEAR ME!
Aerothorn on 26/8/2010 at 03:36
I did a double-take when I saw that this was turn-based, given that basically every dev/publisher (including Obsidian) has been saying for the last decade that turn-based is not commercially viable. But hey, they're doing digital distribution, so I guess they don't need publisher approval.
This is totally in my top three wanted games now.
