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Ah zombies. Everyone loves zombies, don’t they? I mean, look at them! Slow moving, makes lots of groaning and moaning sounds, usually have some splatter of blood around them… yeah, you probably get the idea!

Here’s a little something if you absolute love zombie, be it in a peaceful way or a violent way: a zombie MMO might be coming to our doorsteps too.

Recently announced as a jointed project between Blizzard and NCsoft, the newly created studio called Undead Labs had announced a completely new game that is tentatively classified as a MMO which some zombie elements in it. How the game actually looks and played out like… well, there has been little to no information about that.

However, a recent interview done by Eurogamer has revealed some pretty interesting information as of why the studio wants to create such a game. While it doesn’t exactly reveal information with regards to the gameplay of the game, there’s at least some details as of why such a game is considered a plausible for them.

People are passionate about zombies – and this is, to tell you the truth, the reason why I’m even talking about it at this point, about what kind of game I’m going to make, because normally when you start a studio you’re very tight-lipped about that. The reason I’m talking about it is because I want zombie fans. I want the best developers in the industry that love zombies to want to work here and be part of this, because it is exciting, it is innovative and it’s going to be something special and new.

If this were to be a kid’s friendly MMO, we’ll probably see chocolates as a deterrence.

Yep, people are definitely passionate about zombies, and this is exactly why the guys at Undead Labs wants to bring you guys a MMO with regards to that. Since the start of games (okay, not really), zombie has been part and parcel of any games, be it being some of the toughest enemies to the regular little minion which dies in a hit, zombie has truly been a tradition in many of the FPS games we see today.

The reason zombies are so powerful and transcend fantasy is because right now they are the modern, societal guilt-free meat-puppet. We’ve been through the Nazi phase, we’ve been through the communist phase, we’ve been through the terrorist phase. Those were all at various times in history fair game in the gaming culture. Right now zombies are fulfilling that need for us. That no-rules, no-guilt mentality is something that people really resonate with.

And now zombie becomes some meat bags for us to slap the crap out of them? I think I like where the direction of the MMO is going!

But still, it begs the question: how would an MMO work out with a zombie theme? We can’t possibly be going around using swords and guns slapping the crap out of zombies to level up, right? A good MMO would need a strong storyline supporting it, and majority of the zombie-related titles now usually have a very commonly used story: some guy gets infected by some virus or something and the whole city gets infected. How can a MMO have only one locale?

Tons of questions unanswered, but on the bright side, at least you can cock your shotgun and get ready for some classic zombie busting if the MMO turns out fine.

Via: Joystiq.

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