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Killing Floor Is Alive

Zombies zombies zombies. Zombies zombies zombies. Zombies. This one could go huge, I suspect. It's the next game from the makers of the evergreen Red Orchestra, and it's stealing a little bit of long-term supporters Valve's thunder by being a co-op zombie shooter. Cheeky! Left 4 Dead 1.5 it ain't though, thanks to more arena-like playing areas, abilities beyond simple shooting and healing, and persistent player upgrades. It's a lot more OTT and Doom-y than L4D, too.

Reportedly, preorders have been pretty high. Us gentlemen of the internet do so enjoy shooting zombies in the head, after all. It went live on Steam today for a reasonable price, and while RPS hasn't been blessed with a review copy yet, we hope to have some sort of verdict very soon. Anyone else playing it yet? Whaddaya think?

Below the magic words of information protection, some video footage of this violent delight.

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Oh, and it's based on an old UT2004 mod, which looks a little bit like this:

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Ancient co-founder of RPS. Long gone. Now mostly writes for rather than about videogames.

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