Undead Labs, founded by one of the lead programmers on World of Warcraft, has announced that its latest game will arrive in June. It’s being published by Microsoft Studios for XBLA and PC so a PlayStation version seems unlikely, unfortunately.
This isn’t your normal zombie game, though. State of Decay focuses on survival and stealth as you base-build your way to avoiding the zombie apocalypse. It’s an open world that encourages exploration to find the building materials you and your AI companions will need to build a secure base.
You’ll still be able to stove in the occasional zombie’s head though – melee weapons, assault rifles and even cars appear to be included as methods of despatching the undead.
Source: YouTube
teflon
Digging into the dev’s site, it looks like co-op isn’t part of this at launch… Which makes me sad. This would be absolutely perfect for co-op!
KeRaSh
Yes, coop is what popped into my head the second I watched the trailer.
Seems like this is a Walking Dead kind of game but with actual gameplay, which is what I wanted from the Walking Dead games in the first place… ^^
bunimomike
Same here, fella. I can see how much more fuss adding co-op to a game is, especially when it needs deep integration into something like this, but it feels like a game-type that’s begging for it!
Regardless, that looks VERY promising and it shoots straight onto my pretend list of things to keep an eye out for which I made up just before typing in the word “list”. :-P
Person678
Basically they always been saying that this game is the precursor to the MMO they plan on creating, and I remember them saying something like as the multiplayer systems for the MMO are developed, they’d like to add those into State of Decay after launch in some form.
So basically co-op might get patched in.
bunimomike
I was hoping it would end up like Torchlight. First one was single player. People enjoyed it but the entire community craved co-op and the money made from the first one goes to that.
If State of Decay does that I’m in. If they go all MMO on its arse then I’ll give it a miss. However, for now, this particular title looks very promising.
Cheers for the info, fella. :-)
KeRaSh
Meh, not fuzeed about the idea of this turning into an MMO. Hopefully there’s room for both versions.
Kennykazey
And there goes my interest…
Tuffcub
Brown.
SH Number 7/Mini-Lipscombe
Town?
bunimomike
eye?
Tuffcub
Cow, obvs.
SH Number 7/Mini-Lipscombe
Yeah this looks cool, but surely co-op is what would sell this game! being able to build a safe house with my friends would be awesome!
MayContainEvil
Agreed, give it co-op and put it on Steam and consider it sold.
yiddo
Meh, don’t like the look of it personally.
Origami Killer
More Zombies Yay!….ughhh.
Kennykazey
Ughhh…. Braaainz!