But if you have the skills, you can scale a low roof or slide under a truck to hide from zombies.
A first-person view would limit your peripheral vision, lending a sense of claustrophobia. I’d love the mobility to resemble Mirror’s Edge. Shooting zombies and leaping over fences isn’t fluid in either game, thanks to clunky controls.
I shouldn’t even have to write this down, but if you played DayZ or The War Z you know what I’m talking about. We’re not saying we want permadeath in this hypothetical zombie game, but if players do become zombies it’d be more fun to control one that can move faster than a toddler. We’d like to see a mix of slow, early Resident Evil-style zombies along with Olympian sprinter Left 4 Dead zombies. The speedy undead make sprints through empty forests more thrilling, but exploring city streets is annoying when you’re chased miles out of town for making a single misstep. We’re not sure how we’d like it to be implemented, but a spreadable zombie illness could make player interactions and death tenser.īoth The War Z and DayZ rely on fast zombie types. Packs of undead NPCs also roamed through cities, spreading their corruption. Infected grain shipments inflicted players with a zombie illness that they could then transmit to other players.
The zombie disease preceded the launch of a new expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, and rocked the world of Azeroth.
In 2008, a virtual plague spread through the World of Warcraft. Our time with the games got us thinking about features we’d like to see in a zombie MMO. Neither title is polished, but the concept itself has kept gamers enamored. But recent experiments like the ARMA II mod DayZ and the controversial The War Z have opened up the apocalyptic formula with an online, open-world design. Players have had their choice of zombie games for years now.
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