Players can get cornered by sheer numbers, they get tired and weak from melee attacks, and they can have difficulty snap-aiming firearms. The zombies have to be dangerous in groups, so you're afraid of them.Ĭharacters were designed to encourage trying to sneak through hordes of zombies before they get too upset or numerous, and flee when they can. They can't just mow down 200 zombies with a baseball bat or machete. The other part of the "slow zombie design" is having player characters feel more human.
The characters all have a very particular feel in terms of their movement and when in combat. Then 200 of them can be active and track you at once, follow your scent, grab you, break barricades down, wear you down, tire you out. So we wanted to do one zombie type, slow and weak, but they're in crowds that can become so big they cover the screen. The slow zombies design problem eventually lead to the fast zombies + fat zombies that explode + the one tongue zombie design that became the popular thing to do for videogames. The human bosses were dangerous, but the zombies weren't.
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The Dead Rising series tried but the zombies in that were mostly punching bags. There's not a lot of games that do slow zombies correctly, at least that I know of. I think most games gave up on this concept. So what was it inspired you to make the game in the first place? After that switch flipped we decided to make the game as goofy as possible, which also lead to ideas to make it a lighthearted, vaguely optimistic zombie apocalypse. It really made me think of unintentionally goofy moments in the zombie genre, which made the game get really absurd real quick. This changed as soon as I saw the episode of The Walking Dead where the main character screamed CORAL for 20 minutes. I think the original intent, way early in the design process, may have been to make a serious zombie game. What can you tell us about this and was it your intention to make a absurd zombie game, or did you make a zombie game that turned absurd over time? You've gone for a very tongue-in-cheek tone, from the name of the game down to some fun personalities. You also make tough moral decisions, like what button to press on a futuristic toilet or if one of your characters should get their head replaced with a dog's head. You make and find weird characters with their own skills and personalities, then have your group explore procedurally generated locations for ammo, weapons, and cans of food until they get eaten by massive, massive hordes of slow zombies.
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What is Death Road to Canada?ĭeath Road to Canada is a randomly generated road trip game about getting a car full of jerks from Florida to Canada, the last nation on Earth.
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And so, without further ado, here is that Q&A, complete with a bunch of screens that show off the PC version of the game. We sat down and played it on PC for the first time recently, and we enjoyed what we saw, and so when we were offered the chance to fire some questions over to creator Kepa Auwae from Rocketcat Games, we jumped at the chance. It's a unique proposition, then, and zombie fans on PS4, Switch, and Xbox should definitely keep an eye on the game as it nears its console debut. Imagine the lovechild of FTL: Faster Than Light and Dead Rising raised in a family of classic Lucasarts point and click adventures and you'd be somewhere in the right ballpark. The characters are flawed and a bit silly, the atmosphere is grim yet playful, and the presentation is retro yet fresh. Deciding to take a trip from Miami to Ontario, the player must recruit NPCs and make their way up the highways of America, stopping to grab supplies and smash zombies in the head whenever the opportunity arises. As alluded to before, the dead have risen and civilisation as we know it is over. When it does make the jump to console later this spring, a zany, often absurd road trip awaits. After impressing plenty of people following its original launch on PC back in 2016, the creators of this well-received title started to focus their attention on bringing the game to consoles, namely PS4, Switch, and Xbox One. Like the shuffling zombies that populate this quirky post-apocalyptic adventure, Death Road to Canada is on the rise.
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