By Jim Rossignol on March 31st, 2011 at 1:49 pm.
Here is a game announcement: DEAD HORDE is announced. This new game, by DnS Development, is an intriguing co-op shooter concept in which dead people come back to life to get in the way of normal, alive people, who have to make them re-dead, so that they can just get on with whatever it was they were doing. Presented in a top-down format, this game will surely shake up our understanding of what it means for people to be alive, then dead, then alive, and then finally dead again. Ah, this is the kind of exciting stuff that makes it worth being alive, right here, right now, for just a few brief years between two endless forevers.
(If i ever make a zombie game it’ll be called DEAD INSIDE. Or maybe DEAD RIGHT, if it was good. Or DEAD MEET if it was like a casual social game of some kind. Or DEAD PAN: ZOMBIE CHEF, for some kind of Wii cooking game. Christ, there’s so much potential for these zombie game things! Why aren’t people making them?)
31/03/2011 at 13:56 poop says:
A CO OP SHOOTER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
TOP DOWN?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??
WITH
ZOMBIES?!?????????????!?!?!??!?!?!!?!?!?!?!
31/03/2011 at 13:56 Navagon says:
Just when I was starting to worry that there weren’t enough zombie games out there, along comes a possible saviour!
31/03/2011 at 13:57 Gnoupi says:
Oh great, Emo zombies.
31/03/2011 at 13:57 Jim Rossignol says:
Animators would have a fine time having the zombie’s flick back their long hair as they shambled.
31/03/2011 at 14:01 Gnoupi says:
Bonus points for messing with the hair, then shooting the head off
31/03/2011 at 14:02 AbyssUK says:
Reanimators surely!
31/03/2011 at 14:03 westyfield says:
EMO ZOMBIE uses ANGSTY POEM.
It’s SUPER-EFFECTIVE!
PLAYER 1 loses 10HP.
31/03/2011 at 13:57 scottossington says:
And I thank you for my morning laugh
31/03/2011 at 13:57 Jim Rossignol says:
Oh very good.
31/03/2011 at 14:00 gorgol says:
I kinda feel bad for the devs. They probably started this project when zombie shooters were the new big thing. Now they’ve finally got it to a stage they can start to publicise it, the genre has been overdone :/
31/03/2011 at 14:03 poop says:
do you really think they have been working since like mid 2007 on a top down zombie shooter?
31/03/2011 at 14:33 gorgol says:
Nah, I was thinking more along the lines of soon after the release of L4D which would mean early 2009.
EDIT: I guess it serves ‘em right for not being very original.
31/03/2011 at 14:02 kikito says:
I hope they include some zombies from World War II, too.
31/03/2011 at 14:03 westyfield says:
Haha, excellent!
31/03/2011 at 14:07 Navagon says:
How about: Deadgasm?
A zombie harem anyone?
31/03/2011 at 14:08 Jim Rossignol says:
“Deadgasm”
I think we have found the wrongest game name of all time. Make it so, game development.
31/03/2011 at 14:31 westyfield says:
That name is dead wrong.
31/03/2011 at 14:10 Spakkenkhrist says:
“I actually hope it isn’t a dead horse. That would be a disaster… and it wouldn’t fit in the back of that Volvo 340″
31/03/2011 at 14:10 MadTinkerer says:
Surely you mean a two player co-op: Done2Death?
31/03/2011 at 14:15 WASD says:
@Jim, you should’ve wrote/commented on this the other day – http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/28/project-zomboid-trailer/
31/03/2011 at 14:17 Jim Rossignol says:
Yeah. Although that actually looks kinda interesting…
31/03/2011 at 14:19 WASD says:
Yeah, I thought you’d say that…
31/03/2011 at 14:30 Mattressi says:
Zomboid is more of a zombie ‘survival’ game from what I can see: there’s few to none of them (survival, as in you need to find food, supplies, shelter – not survival like Resident Evil where you need to find a torch or some keys -.-), but there’re a whole tonne of zombie shooters.
As for the name; I think it’s catchy, just like Dead Frontier, Dead State, Evil Dead, Left 4 Dead, Dead Island, Dead Nation and Urban Dead. If I ever make a zombie game, I shall call it ‘Dead Dead’.
31/03/2011 at 14:23 terry says:
Done of the dead?
31/03/2011 at 14:25 Antsy says:
How about Dead Drop. A techno-zombie espionage game. “Fighting Terror with Terror!”
31/03/2011 at 14:26 Richard Beer says:
How about one set in space called Dead Spa-!… Oh.
Alright then, how about you wake up one morning, and overnight the zombie horde has arrived! You could call it Dawn of the De-… Oh.
I KNOW! How about it takes place on a film or TV set of some kind, like a reality show, and people closeted away inside suddenly realise the world outside has fallen victim to a zombie plague. It could be called Dead Se-… Oh.
31/03/2011 at 14:30 westyfield says:
How about one set in 1930s rural British Columbia? It could be called “OH SHIT ZOMBIE LUMBERJACKS: FUUUUUUU-”
01/04/2011 at 13:52 JB says:
Dead Set rocks.
31/03/2011 at 14:36 terry says:
Right, Said Dead.
31/03/2011 at 14:36 Olero says:
- Dead End – A racing game where you must find the one road without the invicible walls
- Dead’s the question – A party game with some very depressing personal questions, with commercial breaks about life insurances, guns and prozac
- Dead mouse – A fingerbreaking game which tests your mouse skills to the extreme
- Deadman – A superhero game about a man who died after he’s bitten by a bat, granting him special abilities in the afterlife. He returns to half-life in the sequel “Deadman returns”
31/03/2011 at 14:43 godgoo says:
‘Dead-leg’- a sim where you play an obnoxious 12 year old boy hell-bent on incapacitating the thigh muscles of the entire populace.
31/03/2011 at 14:40 Chunga says:
I guess all game devs got infected and all they can do now is produce more zombies. We’re doomed!
31/03/2011 at 14:41 godgoo says:
I’d call mine ‘buy game, has zombies’… I don’t think I’m getting this… ‘night of the 2 player co-op’?…
Incidentally, what would people like to take over from zombies as the next go-to for selling some copies of generic video game? many say dinosaurs, personally I’d like to see a spate of leprechaun games.
31/03/2011 at 14:47 Olero says:
My personal interest is pre-apocalyptic games. Or just apocalyptic games…. But leprechaun games sounds interesting as well, as long as there are pots of gold, rainbows and Guinness in those games.
31/03/2011 at 14:46 zipdrive says:
There actually is a pen and paper RPG called Dead Inside.
31/03/2011 at 14:53 nuh uh no way says:
“Another World developer and all-around quality Frenchman Eric Chahi (currently hard at work on download-only God game From Dust, pictured above) has said in an interview with CVG that he believes originality is returning to videogames after a hiatus of some seven years, arguing that digital distribution has brough innovative games back to the masses.”
“Here is a game announcement:DEAD HORDE is announced. This new game, by DnS Development, is an intriguing co-op shooter concept in which dead people come back to life to get in the way of normal, alive people, who have to make them re-dead, so that they can just get on with whatever it was they were doing.”
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU~
31/03/2011 at 14:57 Zwebbie says:
(Brain-eating zombie. Shambling corpse. Secret Octopus.
Octodead.)
31/03/2011 at 15:02 Oozo says:
It took this comments thread less than an hour to come up with more original Zombie-game ideas than the industry has had in the last few months.
Also, funnier, too.
31/03/2011 at 15:10 McDan says:
That’s because RPS is dead good.
My game would be called Dead effect. Which isn’t that funny reall, but then it’s not a zombie game.
I’m dull.
31/03/2011 at 15:07 Bhazor says:
Jim has an envy.
31/03/2011 at 15:08 Chunga says:
Brain-Dead – the game for zombie surgeons.
31/03/2011 at 15:13 Bhazor says:
Dear game developers who still think top down zombie shooters are interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKHoQXdmkSE
31/03/2011 at 15:13 Outsider says:
Really, really tired of zombies, I have been for years.
31/03/2011 at 15:24 McDan says:
Would you say… dead tired?
31/03/2011 at 15:29 Richard Beer says:
Snorted out loud.
31/03/2011 at 15:31 patricij says:
I’ve been tired of zombies since….1999? That’s when Resident Evil 2 for PC came along and I thought back then – well, now…we certainly had enough zombie games, surely they would come up with something new. Haha, I feel like how Bill Gates must feel when he looks back and remembers the famous line “640kB should be enough for anyone.” Zombie games has been pouring in almost from the beginning…the zombocalypse is far from finished, it appears…
31/03/2011 at 15:34 Outsider says:
Ha!
31/03/2011 at 17:09 Colonel J says:
Yeah I liked them better when they were still underground.
(with apologies to the Chilean miners)
31/03/2011 at 15:17 tomeoftom says:
Bravo!
31/03/2011 at 15:23 jonfitt says:
“Dead Kennedys”
In a twist on the genre, John and Ted rise from the grave to combat an alien invasion. All to the strains of hardcore punk.
31/03/2011 at 15:25 godgoo says:
would buy- genius!
maybe they carry a Black Flag?
31/03/2011 at 16:12 Chunga says:
And they will break into a server-hall, trying to steal people’s mail. On a friday night, no less.
31/03/2011 at 15:36 roryok says:
Deaded : Proper
31/03/2011 at 15:37 roryok says:
Zombies Ate My Homies
31/03/2011 at 15:40 godgoo says:
‘Dead for teacher’ an undead schoolboy leisure suit larry-esque point n click adventure
31/03/2011 at 15:56 Enzo says:
This is retardead.
31/03/2011 at 15:58 godgoo says:
i am sofa king
31/03/2011 at 16:23 roryok says:
Corpses wot go walking
31/03/2011 at 16:32 terry says:
Bod wot shambles
31/03/2011 at 16:43 Haplo says:
Gundead.
(The zombie-themed reboot to the classic(?) XBox wild-west Rockstar-esque themed game ‘Gun’.)
Speaking of zombie reboots of classic console Wild-west Rockstar-esque games, did anyone actually play the whole “Red Dead Redemption: Zombie Invasion” thingy or whatever? What was it like?
31/03/2011 at 16:49 nuh uh no way says:
I didn’t because I was completely uninterested in the whole zombie premise.
You HAVE gotten me thinking about what a nice setting GTA IV’s Liberty City would be for a zombie game though. I really enjoyed that damn town and would like for it to be used in more games.
31/03/2011 at 16:54 Haplo says:
A Liberty City zombie game? Hm…
Clearly it’s a game with a sort of Shawn of the Dead-esque post-zombie invasion spin. All the zombies are ‘accepted’ members of society, in the sense that they’re given all the crappy jobs. And are also the walking dead.
Obviously, keeping in line with Rockstar’s policies to make GTA leads come from underprivileged or disenfranchised backgrounds (Black in Crappy Los Angeles, East European immigranty-time, mutes), you would actually -be- a zombie. A zombie just trying to get a straight break when one of his old buddies calls him up for one simple job…
31/03/2011 at 16:48 Thule says:
Dead Bored
31/03/2011 at 16:54 Colonel J says:
Dead funny
Developers – please use that song for the trailer.
31/03/2011 at 17:10 noobnob says:
These comments are killing me.
31/03/2011 at 17:17 patricij says:
Are you dead serious?
31/03/2011 at 17:18 patricij says:
Also..I’m on a dead horse!
31/03/2011 at 17:31 Zaboomafoozarg says:
Dead Heat.
31/03/2011 at 17:41 Minim says:
I really don’t get why with all these zombie games, we haven’t gotten zombie animals. Red Dead Redemption is the only game I can think of to touch on it, and I guess the dogs from Resident Evil.
Zombie bears are terrifying enough, but if zombieism means everything wants to eat your brains, then no place is safe. Rats, cats, birds, cows. Of course players will eventually wind up near the zoo for an end boss fight against the zombie giraffes and elephants.
The sequel will be humanity trying to escape to sea but uh-oh, zombie whales and seahorses are just waiting for them. And good luck trying to destroy a zombie jellyfish’s brain, THEY DON’T HAVE ONE.
31/03/2011 at 17:54 Flint says:
They Hunger, the old mod series for Half-Life, had zombie bulls.
31/03/2011 at 19:29 Colonel J says:
iphone….Pet Cemetery
Or Sematary for those on the other side of the Atlantic.
Keeping it punk, that would work as a level for the Dead Kennedys game above. Can;t have too much Ramones.
31/03/2011 at 17:44 AdamT says:
Oooh, how about a game called “Head Dorde”, about a group of explorers trying to find the North Pole, all of whom have entertaining speech impediments.
No zombies.
31/03/2011 at 19:37 Colonel J says:
Stop it.
Deft for Lead. Something to do with bullet catching.
31/03/2011 at 19:51 Outsider says:
28 Lays Dater? No thank you.
31/03/2011 at 19:41 Nim says:
I’m still waiting for the developers to start working on SimNecropolis, a simcity game infested with the living dead.
31/03/2011 at 20:58 Zoolooman says:
I thought it said “Dead Horse” myself.
31/03/2011 at 21:20 Dances to Podcasts says:
Dead on!
31/03/2011 at 23:22 Tizoc says:
Dead Life, a virtual world for lonely people who want to pretend they’re dead.
(And I’m too lazy to provide a link for the song)
01/04/2011 at 00:14 Gabe McGrath says:
Dear RPS,
After you ‘fix’ the worldwide release day issue (“The Internet has no Oceans”), I have a new campaign for you.
NO ZOMBIES.
For 99 days, don’t write a single post about a zombie game. Not one.
These things (the games, not the zombies) require oxygen aka marketing, and it’s time to snuff them out.
I’ve even found a themesong for the campaign….
01/04/2011 at 03:11 Kaira- says:
And after several born dead bad puns…
05/05/2011 at 19:03 RegisteredUser says:
This is a drop dead gorgeous thread.
<3