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Here's something that's relevant to my own interests: Sony's upcoming zombie outbreak PlayStation Network title, The Last Guy. When a mysterious purple ray hits the Earth, turning normal citizens into monsters and blood-thirsty zombies, the player becomes mankind's last remaining hope and must escort survivors to designated safety zones.

But here's where it gets really interesting: the game features real-world locales (Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London), and utilizes high-resolution sattelite imagery from Google Earth to render the cities. You'll encounter 10 types of zombies, as well as bosses, and you'll have a bunch of special abilities like heat vision, time freezing, and more. 

PlayStation.Blog has some details and a few screens, and is promising to trickle out marketing hype details leading up to the game's release. While I'm not exactly sure this is going to replace my burning desire to storm Valve's offices and steal playable Left 4 Dead code, I definitely have my eye on The Last Guy. I mean, zombies, folks. Zombies.

There's a The Last Guy browser-based Web game that designs levels based on URLs; try Destructoid.com and let us know how that works out for you.


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Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 09:49
Teta
You are missing Lemmings on the equation.
Sueng's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 09:55
Sueng
Wow, I heard of this but now hearing the idea of Google earth being implemented. Truly genius.
linuxguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 09:57
linuxguy
OMG this is awesome!
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 09:58
Kryptinite
Man...this sounds awesome!
Alexradl's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:04
Alexradl
Woah, that's cool. I don't know how much I'd pay for something like this, but it definitely looks pretty epic.
glandseck's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:08
glandseck
When I first heard about what this game *really* was, I was severely disappointed. I thought what I was looking at, when seeing "The Last Guy" video, was a game about the last man on earth running away from a mob of women.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:14
king3vbo
This sounds really cool
EatonTJ's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:15
EatonTJ
This looks somewhat boring. Do like the music though.
TurboSpaz's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:18
TurboSpaz
The last guy? Massive action game? Sony needs start coming up with some better names.

"Coming, 2009, Third person adventure!"
Josh Tolentino's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:21
Josh Tolentino
@ TurboSpaz

Not much worse than "Too Human" or "Huxley"

Anyway, this thing plays a bit like a Google Earth-ified version of Snake (or reverse Centipede), where your "tail" grows longer and more cumbersome as you gather stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:23
falinter
Sounds like a good idea.
groebo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:25
groebo
looks like a lot of fun...
Projectexodus's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:28
Projectexodus
Music reminds me of Popcorn by Hot Butter.
Video Cognito's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:28
Video Cognito
Oh man, that's a great way to implement Google Earth. However, I'm not the biggest fan of wide, top-down perspectives; maybe they'll be able to zoom in to street view for some more epic zombie hunting. Yeah!
Video Cognito's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:29
Video Cognito
OR OR OR you can either put in an address and be able to generate a level based off that! YEAH! That way, you could put in a place you know extremely well and be all "Hey guys, there's a park just a few blocks ahead! We can make it!" Yeah!
J03yyz's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:34
J03yyz
sounds awesome, cant go wrong with zombies
but i have to agree with TurboSpaz, what the hell is with that name?
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:35
RonBurgandy2010
The Dtoid level sucks
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 10:41
MechaMonkey
My thoughts exactly, Teta.
whormongr's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 11:05
whormongr
they should do this w/ the psp gps unit that is coming out for us- you could physically run away from the zombies-
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 11:50
vexed alex
This looks really, really cool.
kariomart's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 12:22
kariomart
I want to be the last guy!
Anus Mcphanus's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 12:35
Anus Mcphanus
Do Want!
charlieduke's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 12:40
charlieduke
Better Names?!?!? Fat Princess. EOS.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 12:57
Holyetheline
The Google Earth thing is cool. I'm not sure how much fun I could have with this one though.
Knives's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 13:02
Knives
Looks fun.
Unicorn's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 13:05
Unicorn
that is all kinds of DO WANT.

this and wipeout HD are making me want a ps3 more and more
NihonTiger90's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 13:23
NihonTiger90
My, Sony's in-house teams are certainly on a roll right now, aren't they? Between this and Fat Princess, I am pleased.

Also, try Tomopop while you're at it. See how much fun it is.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 13:31
mix
You had me at Zombies!
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 13:47
pedrovay2003
This is actually out on the Japanese PSN already, or at least part of it is.
ridley80's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 13:55
ridley80
This looks like the best game of 1992!!!
Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 14:01
Rainbowblack
wow this is insanely awesome
Crunshii's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 14:25
Crunshii
wow holy ?@#%!~ where did this come from?...

totally innovative. /clap
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 18:09
Jetsetlemming
I was gonna say "This sounds like an idea that would work better, faster, and easier in flash" and then you go and link a browser version. Huh. Great minds think alike.
In the trailer the google earth footage looks more like it holds the game back than helps it any because of the disparity between the monsters and backround, and how there's no 3d to the image at all. Maybe if they went 20 extra steps, cut out each individual building and tree line, and made them 2d sprites on top the map that things can go behind, and added shadows and other such things (Use the power of that goddamn cell processor!) and alter the map as you go along, it could be interesting. Judging by the trailer it's got some significant downfalls that are hard to ignore on a non-free game.
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 04:08
Batthink
@ Projectexodus;

My thoughts exactly. It sounds like the game needs better music, imo.

Btw, it sounds like a good idea. You and the people you are trying to save are a little on the 'hard to see' side.

And Rev. Anthony's going to hate the trailer's final message.
Lewis Bell's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/21/2008 16:19
Lewis Bell
My city (and workplace) is in there!.....SHIT!
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