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Wideload to Release Zombie Game

Posted by Zonk on from the in-new-game-you-eat-zombie dept.

grag writes "People may recall that earlier this year, Wideload Games licensed the Halo engine for a project. Recently they announced the plot line of the game, a reversal of the roles in the zombie shooting game. According to the article, you play a zombie named Stubbs, working your way through the game eating brains and wreaking havoc in a comical 1950's inspired game setting."

17 comments

  1. Yeah Wideload! by poena.dare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go Alex! Go Matt!

    1. Re:Yeah Wideload! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Okay, that wasn't offtopic. You do know that Alex Seropian and Matt Soell are two of the Bungie employees who left and created Wideload?

      I guess I'm too late by now to be noticed, though.

      - [Andrew Nagy]

  2. oh, jeez, that's....well.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    wowzers, that's just great!

  3. brains! by jkujawa · · Score: 4, Funny

    BRAINS! BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS! BRAIIINNNS!
    Brains brains brains, braiiiins brains brains brains!

    Brains. Braaaaaiiiiiinnnnsss. Brains brains brains, brains brains brains brains brains? Brains.

    Brains! Brains. Braiiiiins. Brains!

    1. Re:brains! by chrish · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Brains4Zombies.com

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    2. Re:brains! by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh my God! They turned Steve Ballmer into a zombie!

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    3. Re:brains! by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 2, Funny

      What's worse is they modded it up +3 insightful!

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  4. Does Stubbs have a partner... by hal2814 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...named Scrockett?

  5. More games like this by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    More games should allow the player to take the role of the evil/bad guy/antagonist character. I remember a game called Tecmo Deception for PS. It allowed you to set traps in a castle and kill hero/treasure hunters. Also, the last Resident Evil game allowed you to play as a zombie. Games like this should be commended for thinking outside the box from ordinary "let me save the Princess and the world" type games to "Let me destroy the world and kill the princess" type games. Rock on.

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    1. Re:More games like this by hollismb · · Score: 1

      Yeah, but who really wants to be a zombie?

    2. Re:More games like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Well, there is also Destroy All Humans and the new GoldenEye:Rogue Agent.

    3. Re:More games like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Dungeon Keeper. Look it up, it is pre-fall Bullfrog hero-torturing bliss.

    4. Re:More games like this by Rayonic · · Score: 1

      Evil Genius?

      Also, if you're talking about Resident Evil: Outbreak, you couldn't actually control yourself once you became a zombie.

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  6. Tasty by cuteseal · · Score: 1

    Lol... sounds funny. Should be fun, just hope you don't run into Alice or Jill, or they'll crack your neck faster than you can say "tasty brains"....

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  7. Reality Gaming, btw Do they have God Mode? by xtermin8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's always an appeal to wrecking havoc instead of playing the good guy, but being a zombie in a video game is a little to close to reality. Being the evil genius-ok: but mindless, red-eyed, compulsively feeding myself- I might as well mount a mirror next to the screen.

  8. Penny Arcade! by Fortran6502 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but I loathe the undead! http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-02 -04&res=l

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