By Jim Rossignol on May 6th, 2011 at 8:04 am.
Via Blues I notice that Digital Reality have announced Dead Block, which is an Unreal-powered game about keeping zombies out of your house. They explain that the game contains “innovative defensive gameplay in which the few remaining survivors, Jack Foster (a construction worker), Foxy Jones (a traffic warden), and Mike Bacon (a perpetually hungry boy scout) have formed an unlikely alliance to protect themselves from the invading undead. Hiding in various shelters around town, they avoid Zombies by building blockades, setting fiendish traps or – as a last resort – using their weapons to fight.”
Dead Block features single-player as well as co-op, and the game website has some more images and a trailer.
06/05/2011 at 08:11 P7uen says:
At least the art style has some character. The recent plague of zombie games have been a bit soulless, hopefully this wont turn out to be a shambles.
06/05/2011 at 09:13 Sheng-ji says:
Allow me a quick “Groans at pun”
06/05/2011 at 09:42 Teddy Leach says:
That pun took brains.
06/05/2011 at 10:18 P7uen says:
@Teddy: Well done, everyone else seems to be dragging their heels…
06/05/2011 at 13:24 amorpheous says:
Just when I thought zombie games were dead…
06/05/2011 at 08:13 UW says:
I wish someone would make a zombie game without the words “Dead” or “Zombie” in the title.
Oh wait, no I don’t. That would mean another zombie game.
06/05/2011 at 08:15 thegooseking says:
People can make as many zombie games as they like. I’ll just do like I did with World War II shooters: play one or two and ignore the rest.
06/05/2011 at 08:18 Rich says:
House of the Walking Undead Dead LXIV: The Day of the Zombies
Edit: thegooseking has a point. Throw enough shit at a wall and some of it will stick.
06/05/2011 at 09:17 UW says:
True, but if I’m tired of the concept then only the best of the best zombie games will be of interest to me. While devs are making zombie games, they’re spending time that could be used to make other games which I might really like.
06/05/2011 at 08:14 limbclock says:
Agreed, it’s nice to see more cartoony Art style.
06/05/2011 at 08:14 Rich says:
At first I thought this was going to be a game type for TF2. What with the (slightly chunky looking) engineer like character and the very similar art style.
06/05/2011 at 08:38 jon_hill987 says:
Barricade goin’ up!
06/05/2011 at 08:55 Man Raised by Puffins says:
Somebody wanna wrassle up a two by four right here?
06/05/2011 at 08:17 dee says:
“Urneal powered”
*Unreal
06/05/2011 at 08:21 dee says:
Can I have a job?
06/05/2011 at 08:36 Text_Fish says:
Looks like a carbon copy of a Source mod I saw trailered about five years ago.
06/05/2011 at 08:49 dee says:
Well, it’s not the most terribly original idea in the world.
06/05/2011 at 08:57 poop says:
ZOMBIES ARE THE NEW WW2 EXCEPT IT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE INDIE STUDIOS MAKIN THE GAMES INSTEAD OF BIG PUBLISHERS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
06/05/2011 at 09:17 dee says:
I thought modern warfare was the new old warfare.
06/05/2011 at 09:38 arienette says:
@dee
I believe you just used logic!
06/05/2011 at 10:35 poop says:
big publishers make modern warfare and generic indie studios fart out zombie games, really helps the whole argument that indie games are unique and innovative when 90% of them are 2d platformers and/or zombie games
06/05/2011 at 15:54 Text_Fish says:
I agree with Poop.
Gone are the days when I could get excited by the indie games scene. It’s a victim of its own success really.
06/05/2011 at 09:31 fuggles says:
I want to know more about why it’s an unlikely alliance as surely you’d bunk with anyone not undead in that scenario. Maybe the boy scout is an upper class snob who hates construction workers whilst the traffic warden hates being indoors and the construction worker, self conscious of his back hair tries to shun public company.
06/05/2011 at 10:22 aldo_14 says:
Maybe it’s 1930s Alabama. Then a black traffic warden would indeed be an issue.
06/05/2011 at 10:07 Kelron says:
“Mike Bacon (a perpetually hungry boy scout)” – do you really want to be holed up with him in a zombie apocalypse?
06/05/2011 at 10:21 aldo_14 says:
They should have made it like Dungeon Keeper…
06/05/2011 at 10:24 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
I say that about every game.
06/05/2011 at 10:33 battles_atlas says:
DIY + zombies? Only question is why it didn’t happen sooner.
Expect Zombie Home Buyer shortly
06/05/2011 at 11:13 JFS says:
Ah well. Or Dead Sweep, the zombie road sweeping machine simulator.
06/05/2011 at 11:41 oceanclub says:
I like the look of this; seems like a 3D version of the rather fun “Cottage of Doom”, a concept I always thought was a no-brainer (no pun intended):
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/game/cottageofdoom
P.
06/05/2011 at 13:22 Kaira- says:
All I want is a good zombie game, that is not about zombies and blasting them, but about co-operation and other people and people’s actions during a catastrophe. Where the most deadly enemy is another human.
Oh well.
06/05/2011 at 14:51 Outsider says:
I’m afraid I stopped reading when I saw the three words “Zombie” “survivors” and “innovative” too close together.
06/05/2011 at 15:56 squareking says:
Pardon the terminology I’m using, but
FUCK
I swear: Just a month ago I was sketching out this exact same game. With the UDK. Building blockades. Setting traps. Co-op.
Someone’s watching me.
06/05/2011 at 16:37 xeon06 says:
There’s a debut teaser on their official YT channel. Surprised you guys didn’t catch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0aNMQTNAg
06/05/2011 at 18:20 HilariousCow says:
Concept reminds me of Cottage of Doom by Alex May (of Dyson ^H^H^H^H Euphloria)
06/05/2011 at 19:42 bhlaab says:
so tower defense plus zombies. sounds innovative.
07/05/2011 at 16:39 Paravel says:
Looks like it could be fun. My only gripe is that the three characters all look completely unappealing to me. Not the art, just… I’ve played as Mario a thousand times before, so that’s the first guy out. I want to punch snot nosed fatty kids in the face, so not gonna play him. So all that’s left is to play a slightly stereotypical awkward 70′s black female cop named of all things “Foxy”. Greaaaaat.