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What's this? A game that could potentially burn more calories than Wii Sportsand it has zombies in it? Get me on the horn with Gold's Gym; I have to cancel my membership!
MobZombies makes a good case for pasty faced, overweight horror fans and gamers to get their bodies into beach shape. The premise of the game is quite simple -- you run away from an ever increasing number of zombies, planting bombs along the way to save your ass. Nothing special, right?
But there's a unique twist -- MobZombies is played on a portable device, along with a custom motion sensors. Players use a unique controller called their "legs" to move around in the real-world. The movements of the character on screen will correspond with what the player does in real-time, as they try to avoid real-world hazzards like trees, old people, and hookers.
The unit seen in the above video (set to the soothing sounds of Goblin's classic soundtrack for Dawn of the Dead) is a Sony UX series computer (not a PSP), along with their custom motion sensor. Don't have one of those? Me neither, but don't worry -- according to one of the game's programmers, Aaron Meyers, a cell phone version is in the works; it will use a custom Bluetooth motion sensor that will somehow be strapped to the players waist.
The game not only sounds like a lot of fun, but innovative (and dangerous) as well. All of that aside, they had me at "zombies."
yeah id play it. they cud come up with some fun multiplayer between groups of people who play in the same area. i dont know what it'd be, cause y'know, it aint my job
When is a game developer just going to skip this kiddy stuff and just create a zombie apocalypse for us to play in? Come on, you know you've all had that fantasy.
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