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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6:44 PM on 04.12.2007
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I could see the hilarity ensue in real life while people try to play this in a populated area dodging real people.
"Get the fuck out of my way! There's like 20 zombies on my ass!"
I really want to play this.
Some gamers will develop the ability to play this game Los Angeles rush hour traffic, while others will simply get hit by kids on Razor scooters.
Gnarly soundtrack!
...I wonder if it can detect dog crap in the street, and if so, what would the game turn it into?..
I'll save the dodging of cars for Frogger.
I would buy it
while DRUNK.
"THERE'S ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE!!!! RUN!!!!"