Poll: What if a zombie game took place in 1916?

[Smokepuddle]

It would be wierd... like if the zombies attacked the amish. There'd be a bunch of religeon going on there.

 

[dalek sec]

I'd say go for it, I wouldn't mind play that type of game.

 

[TheRealCJ]

Oh, this is something I very much want to see!

A zombie game where your survival depends on guns, hiding, and common sense instead of gadgets and exploring in the concrete jungles! It seems so much simpler, and yet so much more entertaining......

It'd be really hard, I imagine. The weapons that would be available would suck.

EXACTLY! Then you don't WANT to charge into the maw of the horde! You want to THINK about how you attack, if that at all!

So what you want is a zombie game where you don't kill any zombies?

What's the point? Just spend a few hours Idling in L4D.

 

[Skeleon]

Sounds interesting.
I'd also like to have a War of the Worlds game set in Victorian times, maybe a bit of a guerilla fighting element.

 

[Stewie Plisken]

I shall interest myself in no zombie game, until a proper Shawn of the Dead game has been made. I'd kill to decapitate zombies with Metallica vinyl records.

Or I can always wait for a Brutal Legend sequel.

 

[wolfmanrulz]

There is already a game like this, a zombie game set in WW1 called Necrovison. First level is pretty much all zombies

 

[Desert Warrior]

I'd say 1918 would be better. You'd have the fun addition of Sub-machine guns so people could finally shut up about bolt action rifles, machine guns and etc. not being enough. Personally, I'd prefer it if you could also add some way to modify weapons so it'd be a tad less frustrating, though I'm okay with using slow-reloading rifles. Also, shovel fighting and bayoneting zombies would be the most awesome thing ever conceived.

I'd also like it to be set from the German part of the war. They're not only the most niftiest, but really, they're also the most remarkable, since they basically are fighting the entire world at that point. Or maybe Austro-Hungarian. Would be kinda awesome, that.

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Wasn't Gallipoli the place the place where Australians were slaughtered by the Turks and later had to be evacuated? I mean really, they only won a couple of battles.

Mate evacuated yes...But slaughtered bull.. don't be Bull shit artist mate

 

[Combined]

Mate evacuated yes...But slaughtered bull.. don't be Bull shit artist mate

As I sometimes say, I'm open to correction. My knowledge of the Gallipoli campaign is rather limited and, apart from the fact that the Allies suffered crushing strategic defeat, I know quite little.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Zombies on the Eastern front? Sounds interesting...

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Mate evacuated yes...But slaughtered bull.. don't be Bull shit artist mate

As I sometimes say, I'm open to correction. My knowledge of the Gallipoli campaign is rather limited and, apart from the fact that the Allies suffered crushing strategic defeat, I know quite little.

No, no, I'd say slaughtered is the right way of saying it. A 60% casualty rate isn't what I'd call an "evacuation", despite what some butthurt Austrailian might tell you. That being said, the campaign of the Dardanelles was a complete and utter disaster for both sides, although I'd chalk it up as a defeat of the the Triple Entente, as the whole point of the campaign was to capture Istanbul, an act in which they failed.

 

[Player 2]

I'd rather see GTA:zombies but with the ability to go inside buildings and hide, maybe make a fortress and lead your zombie survival gang.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Since it's 1916, set it in Ireland. During that Rising thing. Which I should really know more about, because I'm ostensibly studying it.

 

[TimeLord]

I'd like to see this idea because it would be all bolt action rifles, no machine guns or anything.

I'd rather see GTA:zombies but with the ability to go inside buildings and hide, maybe make a fortress and lead your zombie survival gang.

Isn't that 'Left for Dead' more or less

 

[Slick Samurai]

Better yet, what about a zombie game set in historically accurate Medieval times? Imagine, you're a knight riding through hordes of peasant zombies on your horse; hacking at them with a massive claymore. Awesomesauce.

 

[Chipperz]

-?Do it yourself? feel. The true RednBlue American knows how to nail a door onto a window! He knows how to clean and repair his gun! He knows he must protect his country against the anti-christian zombie threat!

For the love of god, don't have it in America if you want it in 1916. (actually, "don't have it in America" is pretty good advice to games designers everywhere - there is a "rest of the world" you know...) Put it in France or Russia, maybe a mile or two away from the front lines. How about a small village in France whose residents can hear the artillery going off every night and who live under constant fear of being hit by a stray shell and then, one night... The shelling stops. A small group goes out to investigate and sees what looks like a group of German soldiers trying to sneak into the town. As they get closer, they realise there are British soldiers too, and they're not sneaking, they're shuffling...

 

[Cowabungaa]

-?Do it yourself? feel. The true RednBlue American knows how to nail a door onto a window! He knows how to clean and repair his gun! He knows he must protect his country against the anti-christian zombie threat!

For the love of god, don't have it in America if you want it in 1916. (actually, "don't have it in America" is pretty good advice to games designers everywhere - there is a "rest of the world" you know...) Put it in France or Russia, maybe a mile or two away from the front lines. How about a small village in France whose residents can hear the artillery going off every night and who live under constant fear of being hit by a stray shell and then, one night... The shelling stops. A small group goes out to investigate and sees what looks like a group of German soldiers trying to sneak into the town. As they get closer, they realise there are British soldiers too, and they're not sneaking, they're shuffling...

I'm afraid I must make love to you now, that's just too awesome. Nothing wrong with a campaign in America though, I think, as long as the whole game isn't in America.

 

[Crossborder]

As long as the weapons are fun to play with , why not?

 

[gtamad12]

Personally, i would prefer a victorian era zombie game, with steampunk gadgets, imagine killing zombies with a steampunk gadgetry, like a steampunk gun that fire railway bolts, hell, imagine how you could dress, killing zombies wearing a monocle, suit and a tophat, in my opinion, that would be most excellent.

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

No, we need to go further back in time. Caveman versus zombie dinosaurs anyone?