New details on Zombie Apocalypse, Konami's old-school gore fest

by Xav de Matos { May 19th 2009 at 8:45PM }

Konami and Nihilistic's upcoming downloadable title, Zombie Apocalypse, has been the subject of a monster-sized update on the PlayStation Blog. Written by Nihilistic designer John Slavin, the update outlines the style, weapons and scoring system in the upcoming PSN and XBLA title.

Zombie Apocalypse is a 4-player online co-op enabled twin-stick shooter (in the vein of Smash TV) with so much realistic gore, it has apparently already been denied classification by CERO in Japan. The downloadable title includes seven environments (55 levels in total, which act as days) that are heavily inspired by zombie film masters; Romero, Fulci and Boyle.

Each of the game's four playable characters (which seem very inspired by Valve's Left 4 Dead) can wield 10 different weapons -- from chainsaws to flamethrowers -- and use the game's environment to kill for extra points. Slavin promises the better gamers are, the more they will score and the longer they will last. We promise to re-organize our zombie plans for next month, when Apocalypse is scheduled to hit PSN and XBLA.

Note: This post originally referred to Zombie Apocalypse as a PSN-exclusive title, which it isn't. It's coming to XBLA as well, a fact that slipped our mind when -- of all things -- a zombie took a bite out of it. Go figure.

Gallery: Zombie Apocalypse

Tags: downloadable, downloadable-game, downloadable-games, konami, nihilistic, playstation-store, psn, xbla, zombie-apocalypse

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ficken @ May 19th 2009 8:55PM

And you thought the 5 on kojimas site meant MGS5. Nah it's 55 levels in Zombie Apocalypse... haha

Orex @ May 19th 2009 9:42PM

dunno if your trying to make a joke or not but you may not be half wrong, everyone already knows on the tease site when lightning flashes it shows april 2007 well in april 07 kojima made a post on working on a zombie title or something lol ill have to dig it up...
http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/2007/04/000106.html#more

A freind of mine found this so creds to her if this is true :)