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Zombie Wranglers wangles its way onto XBLA photo

While much has been made of Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend and even WET, an Xbox Live Arcade game from Frozen Codebase also suffered at the hands of Sierra/Activision merger, ending up as the one of the evil publisher's lesser known victims. However, Zombie Wranglers is back, and due to hit XBLA on May 6.

The cel-shaded zombie blasting game was all set for release back in September 2008 before having the plug pulled. Now everything's straight and the game will appear next month. Previously, the game had the jump on all the zombie games that have flooded the market recently, but it may now get lost in between Burn Zombie Burn and Zombie Apocalypse, not to mention all the retail titles. 

Still, it looks like it could be a lot of fun, so here's hoping it does well. Now, what about this awesome sounding women's roller derby videogame that Codebase was supposed to be working on?


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13 comments | showing # 1 to 13

PappaDukes's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 16:45
PappaDukes
Sweet! The zombie-themed game market has been running a tad dry lately.

</sarcasm>
Solgrim's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 17:07
Solgrim
Never thought I would hear myself saying this but:

Fuck Zombies.

I think I understand why RE jumped the zombie ship now.
Technophile's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 17:08
Technophile
The game is actually pretty cute. I gave the producers some playtesting and feedback for this when I was still at Sierra. I would try the demo when it comes out and see if you like it.
CRAZYAPE69's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 17:49
CRAZYAPE69
I BLAME COD WAW, brought zombie killing to the mainstream, now all the little kids want is zombie this and zombie that. I mean i love nazi zombies and zombie verruckt but all these shit games that have nothing to do with zombies other than ohh they are dead people. It's like zombies are the new nazis. But zombies have feelings to. Sorry for that rant.
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 17:56
Naim Master
Looks like a PSP game for god's sake !
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 18:10
Dexter345
I didn't realize that even downloadable games got affected by loss of a publisher. I mean, isn't MS kind of the default publisher for XBLA games?
MrPibb's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 18:24
MrPibb
Yes! A game I tested and thought was dead made it! Buy this (pretty bad) product so my legacy may live on! Did I say it was bad? Best game ever made is what I meant!
Los255's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 18:33
Los255
"I BLAME COD WAW, brought zombie killing to the mainstream, now all the little kids want is zombie this and zombie that. I mean i love nazi zombies and zombie verruckt but all these shit games that have nothing to do with zombies other than ohh they are dead people. It's like zombies are the new nazis......"



I 100% agree with this statement. This is getting old, quick.
lvl54spacemonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 19:09
lvl54spacemonkey
I played this about 6 months ago when I worked "in the industry" (as they say) and it was utter pants. Felt like it was a finished product but maybe they've had the time to adjust and tweak it. It plays really loosely and feels like you're doing nothing when you attack the zombies.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 22:18
Chronic Logic
Oh jeez, another zombie game.
everybodyruns's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/22/2009 22:48
everybodyruns
Oh sweet, another zombie game!
XrayZwei's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 08:46
XrayZwei
What about Lost Cities? It was on XBLA but after the merger seems to have diappeared from the service.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 09:45
Char Aznable
I'm not necessarily tired of zombie stuff, but it's hard to differentiate between everything. Just slapping the word "zombie" in the title isn't enough.
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