The boys at Conduit studioHigh Voltage have seen what Left 4 Dead did for first-person zombie co-op, and they like it. So much so, in fact, that they've decided to simply copy Valve's immensely popular shooter and put it on the Wii. It has the undead, it has guns, it has four-player co-op. Hey, at least this game also throws in Werewolves and Vampires, the latter of which seem to be replacing L4D "infected" horde.
HV's game will be called The Grinder and features split screen as well as online multiplayer. Very much like House of the Dead: Overkill, the game will be influenced by the Grindhouse genre of movies and tells the tale of four heroes who must survive in a world populated by undead monstrosities.
"We've been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead and there really isn't that kind of frantic co-operative experience on the Wii right now," says High Voltage's Eric Nofsinger. "There's certainly nothing that takes advantage of the Wii hardware the way we are able to with our engine."
Those Wii fans who felt left out by the lack of L4D on their preferred system will surely be happy to know that some co-op zombie love is coming their way. The Grinder is due out in 2010.
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9:20 AM on 05.27.2009
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The fact that the gameplay is based on L4D doesn't bother me, although by drawing the comparison to L4D they leave themselves open to critique based on that. If they can live up to the kind of experience that L4D creates then they should have a great game on their hands and a purchase from me.
I do wish they went for something more original but this is how the industry works, so I'm not really going to complain.
HV try, and I will give them that. But does anyone owning a wii really care about what they are doing? Because I certainly don't, and i think that The Conduit is gonna flop big time.
Bit more power to them for trying!
The wii online multiplayer? What? really? The mario box? It has online? BULLSHIT!!!
L4D is cool, but like Blasto said, without a versus mode, it gets stale very fast.
There is, however, one very nice difference beetween L4D and this: In Left 4 Dead, you're escaping, fighting and running for your life. In this one, you're the monster hunter. You are going after those abominations. It's a subtle difference, but I feel that it will lend a very interesting twist to the game. Of course, you could hunt in L4D, as in being the Horde, but it just felt a little dumb, as fun as it was, afterall whoever was playing had a fully(sometimes)-working brain and no tangible reason to kill those 4 people other than being their rival in the game. In this one you're apparently trying to save the world from monsters, which gives a new psychological depth to everything.
And there's always the possibility that they are just copying the game. I don't know.
T.F.S.
I'm definitely looking forward to this, and I've got all three systems...
Who knows, maybe the Conduit will be the next Halo for frat boys who have a Wii, and The Grinder will be the next L4D type game. Let's just see.
But seriously, sounds good.