Fort Zombie - Fingers crossed...

[Neil]

Paradox Interactive has released more details on its upcoming action/RPG title, Fort Zombie. In Fort Zombie, players will find themselves in Piety, Indiana, a small town facing a horrifying infestation of zombies with a relentless thirst for blood. Survival is only possible through finding refuge in a single, abandoned building. Players must focus their efforts on building up this structure, finding and training survivors, and venturing out into town to look for supplies. Of course, all of this must be achieved while combating the gruesome undead, who will stop at nothing to make you part of their company. Features:- * Take control of a single building in town as you prepare for total zombie infestation * Gather supplies and find survivors by day, defend your building by night * Players can engage in specific single missions within the campaign and spend hours building up the ultimate fortress * Unique character building and reward system – each day brings new missions, each with different potential rewards. How you utilize and level up your survivors will greatly affect your chances of avoiding an ultimate zombie demise Talk is it will cost $10 More:- http://worthplaying.com/article/2009/9/30/news/68923/

[SymphonicX]

Interesting! ANy news on the formats it'll be released under?

[ProfessorChaos]

wow, looking pretty promising. perhaps someone's been lurking in here listening to all of us bitch about the lack of good living dead games? seems to have a lot of elements that many of us have been wanting in a zombie game... i was hoping for some gameplay footage, but regardless, that looked well worth 10 bucks in my book. any word on whether it's pc only or a console download? (would check myself, but gotta head out to class pronto) nice find, neil.

[Neil]

The graphics look basic, but who cares... http://www.kerberos-productions.com/...239153#p239153

[SymphonicX]

hmm, sounds much smaller than what I'm hoping for... I want a city ala Fallout3, gameplay ala Fallout3, levelling system ala Fallout3, and frantic all out scaryness and intensity of L4D

[AcesandEights]

Paradox is a company I love, but I would not buy this game on release day! P'dox tends to take a little while to optimize and patch their games up to a level where they can be considered to be meeting their ambitious potential. That said, I know I'll be buying it.

[ProfessorChaos]

so from what i've found so far, seems this is a pc-only release...however, even though like symph, i'd love an epic fallout 3/GTA/dead rising hybrid game, this looks like one of the best concepts for a zombie-themed game to come out in ages. so i'm thinking i'll be getting it regardless of the format, pc or XBLA download (unless it would come out only for ps3 or wii, i'm not going to buy a new console)...

[MinionZombie]

hmm, sounds much smaller than what I'm hoping for... I want a city ala Fallout3, gameplay ala Fallout3, levelling system ala Fallout3, and frantic all out scaryness and intensity of L4D I too want this, especially as it'd make Symph - in his own words - "shit my pants and dump my girlfriend". Still sounds like an interesting game, but indeed, I want a full-on Fallout 3 style zombie infestation game - with shamblers.

[Eyebiter]

If your looking for a good zombie role playing game... then avoid Fort Zombie like the plague. Bad graphics engine. Looks like the Ultima 9 engine from ten years ago. Movement and camera controls are poor. You can use the arrow keys or wasd controls. Unfortunately instead of moving like in 99% of all first person shooter games your character will turn and move in that direction. Why they implemented this is unknown, but it makes the game difficult to control especially inside buildings. The camera controls are even worse. There is no free look with the mouse. Instead you have to use a combination of the right mouse button and the mouse wheel to look around. Not at all easy to maneuver indoors. Combat is bad. Your character won't just attack a zombie standing right in front of him. First you have to get it lined up exactly. Then there is a percent change to hit. So you will end up mashing the mouse 1 button while trying to move left or right to get your character lined up for a successful attack. When you kill a zombie carrying a baseball bat, axe, or handgun your unable to loot their corpse. If you see something laying on the ground you can't just pick it up. Instead you have to use a search function and there is a percentage chance you find something. It's possible there is a decent game in there somewhere, but it's not worth $10. Save your money and get a decent zombie game like Left 4 Dead 1 or 2 instead.

[ProfessorChaos]

that just broke my heart man. i had hope for this based upon the premise... maybe they'll do a decent port of it to XBLA... when the fuck are we going to get a really great zombie game? l4d is okay if you're into super-zombies and runners, dead rising is okay if you want cartooney, over-the-top violence...but i want a well developed zombie game that takes itself rather seriously and involves leveling up your characters, rescuing survivors, finding/fortifying safehouses, scavenging for food and supplies...and no goddamn, stupid, mtv-generation running "infected" *sigh* maybe one of these days...

[MinionZombie]

that just broke my heart man. i had hope for this based upon the premise... maybe they'll do a decent port of it to XBLA... when the fuck are we going to get a really great zombie game? l4d is okay if you're into super-zombies and runners, dead rising is okay if you want cartooney, over-the-top violence...but i want a well developed zombie game that takes itself rather seriously and involves leveling up your characters, rescuing survivors, finding/fortifying safehouses, scavenging for food and supplies...and no goddamn, stupid, mtv-generation running "infected" *sigh* maybe one of these days... As I've said before, essentially Fallout 3 with Romero zombies.

[SymphonicX]

Bah, I'll be missing this one then - seems like a step back to me.

[Eyebiter]

... i want a well developed zombie game that takes itself rather seriously and involves leveling up your characters, rescuing survivors, finding/fortifying safehouses, scavenging for food and supplies...and no goddamn, stupid, mtv-generation running "infected" Prof. Chaos if that is what your looking for then drop the 10 bucks and buy Fort Zombie. You can do those things in the game. Just know it's a work in progress, lacks the polish of a more expensive title. If you have a newer pc with a dedicated ATI or NVIDIA card, then likely FZ will look better on your machine after the latest patch.

[Eyebiter]

Fort Zombie is currently on sale at Gamer's Gate for $2.48 http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-FZ/fort-zombie

[krakenslayer]

Actually, the graphics engine itself doesn't seem to bad at all - look at the lighting and sun-dappled shadows and the specular reflections on the road surfaces - the problem seems to be the low texture resolution used and the "quickie", poorly-proportioned character/object models. Still, the game looks like it might be fun for under two quid...