road to fiddlers green

[capncnut]

There's a game based on land of the dead? Yeah, a crummy FPS made by Atari for PC and Xbox. It had a very limited release in Europe.

[MinionZombie]

Yeah, a crummy FPS made by Atari for PC and Xbox. It had a very limited release in Europe. And it wasn't even based on Land originally - it was gonna be called "Day of the Zombie" if I'm not mistaken, but then Land came along and Universal said "heey, vidja-gaeme-ty-inn!11!1!!!!", and it was fiddled around to be a little bit Land of the Dead. Although I think the story is deliberately early in an outbreak, so you get to Fiddler's Green long before the events of the movie take place, I think that's what they did with it ... although it doesn't necessarily stick to that either, because FG gets attacked by zombies that can figure out a sledgehammer against a concrete wall ... so it doesn't really make any sense at all.

[archivesofthede]

If anyone still plays the PC version, PM me. I play ever so often. Would be fun to team up.

[Eyebiter]

Surprised this hasn't shown up on STEAM

[axlish]

I still play the PC version from time to time, usually hosting a game of my own in the mall and day maps. For whatever reason, no one is ever hosting those and those are basically the reason the game is worth owning.

[Trin]

The mods for this game are legendary. Better AI and insanely killer maps for Monroeville Mall and Day of the Dead caverns. Just in case people aren't aware, I made one of the main AI mods and the first Day map for the game. The one with the lift that comes down and the zombie pen. I made the Infection mod - where one bite and you become infected and slowly die. Headshot only mod - no more shooting the foot. I also made the Last Man Standing mod - the one where you can play as a zombie. Btw- the game was made by Groove Games and Brainbox, not Atari. Atari is only associated with it because they support the UT2003 engine. To the earlier posts - the game was gash when it came out. And in a large part still is compared to the $60 games. But it's a fun romp for a true GAR fan, if only to see the levels taken from the movies. The game is having a mini-revival as some more mappers showed up to the table and the support for the master server (matchmaking server) became fan supported.

[axlish]

Hmm, a revival. I need to fire up the ol' game again.