Founded by MMO industry veteran Jeff Strain, Undead Studios has only one goal - to create the definitive massively multiplayer zombie game for console gamers.

There's been post-apocalyptic MMO games in the past, but the apocalypse in those games has never been of an undead nature. Undead Labs is looking to fix that with the first MMOz, and the Z stands for zombies.

ArenaNet co-founder Jeff Strain, who's resume includes Blizzard and NCsoft, formed Undead Studios to build a new MMO game from the ground up for consoles. He assembled a crack team of zombie-loving developers in Seattle, Washington, and set about creating a game that quite frankly begs to be created.

"Every time I see a good zombie movie with friends, we spend days debating our strategies for surviving the zombie apocalypse," said Strain. "The police station, or the supermarket? Garden rake, or staple gun? Bach, or the White Stripes? I'm a game developer, so I'd probably be useless for anything other than ghoul bait, but I'm excited to have the opportunity to build an MMOZ that lets us put those strategies to the test and find out for sure."

This is the single best idea for an MMO game that I've heard in the history of the genre, and I've played a lot of MMO titles. To be able to work together with other players to survive a zombie apocalypse, without having to worry about the government simply nuking everything before the credits roll? That's love right there.

Undead Labs plans on being pretty transparent throughout the development process of the game, so you might want to keep an eye on the official website for further apocalyptic developments.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5410978/undead-labs-crafting-console+based-zombie-mmo
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This sounds very interesting cause i love zombie stuff lol.  I think if done right this can be one of the greatest MMO.  I hope its a FPS like L4D but no crazy weird zombies just like real zombies only.  If its a TPS, i hope it'll be like Uncharted where you can cover, climb stuff etc.  I hope they have more detailed info on this soon and maybe some screens =P

What are your thoughts and idea to make a great zombie MMO?

BTW close thread if already posted thanks =)

Nice, some user here had an idea like this a few weeks ago

his idea was to include a zombie mode is MAG,

and have a game of survival. 252 zombies vs 4 humans

that would be nuts tho im not sure if the majority would prefer to be zombies than to shoot them up XD.  Yea definately alot of games like MAG, CoD could add in the zombie feature, but i think an MMO dedicated to zombies would be the ultimate high lol

zombie dogs? ...i guess they could add other types of zombies, but i'd really like to play a straight horror zombie-only type like in the movies.

It all depends on the directions the devs choose to take in my opinion.

For example a traditional quest based leveling mmo with just zombies as enemies probably would'nt be great.

If however, it's designed so you can choose to be human or zombie, you can be infected or cured, and there's a few hundred players per server all trying to accomplish a similar overall goal, it could be amazing.

finally a zombie game for PS3? Will beleive it when I see it

@zaMy

There is "Siren BC", Burn Zombie Burn, zombie apocalypse.....and RE5 have some

I sure hope its not a FPS.
I'll be very happy with it being RPG or TPS.

RE5 Gold Edition might with the new stages of being Chris & Jill in the mansion yes?