Consoles Getting Infected with a Zombie MMO

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Freak_c in Games, News

So MMO’s have mainly been a PC thing, but Jeff Strain is currently working on a MMo with a twist. Undead Labs, seriously that what they are called, will bring a zombie MMO and only to consoles and create a new and fresh approach to persistent online gaming. An it great to see that they have the right man working on it, Jeff Strain is sort of the god father of MMO’s, ever heard of World of Warcraft and Guild Wars? Yip that was him, oh and he has also had his hand in Starcraft and Diablo.

“Every time I see a good zombie movie with friends, we spend days debating our strategies for surviving the zombie apocalypse. The police station or the supermarket? Garden rake or staple gun? Bach or The White Stripes? I’m a game developer, so I’d probably be useless for anything other than ghoul bait, but I’m excited to have the opportunity to build an MMOZ that lets us put those strategies to the test and find out for sure.”

Jeff also thinks that Sony’s approach with Final Fantasy Online and trying to make it a console/PC hybrid is flawed and would rather tap into the console only market:

“…most of the people who are making console MMOs are doing it in the context of taking an existing PC MMO, and porting it to consoles or developing a hybrid design that is going to supposedly appeal equally to PC and console gamers. I’ve been in the MMO business for over a decade and I absolutely do not believe that you have to make a game that supports both PC and console in order for it to be successful.”

Be sure to find out more on this Zombie MMO and Undead labs by heading over to their website.