


We'll be keeping track of ZombiU as it nears release.

“ZombiU takes advantage of the Nintendo Wii U’s one-of-a-kind capabilities and will be a launch title that every gamer will want to sink their teeth into.” “ZombiU is a dark and daunting game that gamers will love to play again and again,” said Guillaume Brunier, producer at Ubisoft.

The GamePad's touch and motion controls will also be used in-game for various activities and in ZombiU's multiplayer mode, in which players will be able to use it to deploy a mutant army against their friends. One of its core functions will be to serve as an interactive “Bug Out Bag” which, if you're up-to-date with your doomsday lingo, is the term applied to an emergency survival kit stocked with the necessary weapons, tools, first aid supplies, and resources to survive a mutated outbreak. In it, players will be challenged with surviving as long as they can in the undead chaos however, death will bring the opportunity to hop into the body of another survivor, track down your former corpse and continue the fight.īeing a Wii U exclusive, ZombiU will act as somewhat of a showpiece for the Wii U's GamePad. In development at Ubisoft's Montpellier branch (From Dust, Beyond Good and Evil), ZombiU is a first person shooter that takes place in modern day London during a “mindless monster” outbreak. Those figures don’t account for downloadable sales, though, so Ubisoft could be racking up more ZombiU sales than retail analysts know about.Update: Ubisoft's dropped off a press release shining a little more light on its Wii U survival horror entry. Some analysts have pegged early Wii U sales at 50-percent lower than those of the Gamecube during the same period after the console came out, and 40 percent lower than those of the Wii. This wouldn’t even necessarily need to be an online mode, since Nintendo has already promised that a future system update will let game makers build games for two Wii U gamepads.ĭespite the generally positive reviews for Nintendo’s Wii U launch line up, sales have not been spectacular. If they had to do something more complex on the pad, like performing surgery on another player, a co-op partner could be forced to defend them from a growing zombie mob. Part of what makes the game so frightening in the first place is how vulnerable a player is while looking at the Wii U GamePad’s screen to look through their inventory. It’s not difficult to imagine what a cooperative mode for ZombiU might be like. Ubisoft opens registration for Project U, a mysterious, ‘session-based’ co-op shooterĮ3 2021: Starfield, Breath of the Wild 2, and more games we expect to see
