It is essentially Guitar Hero crossed with Typing of the Dead as you fight off ambling hordes of zombies using the fret buttons of the guitar controller. Each enemy has a specific button combination that will take them down, and you have to strum your guitar to lay down the track that will defeat them. The game even features bigger enemies that require you to play along with the music, which is more similar to the gameplay of Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
Ideally, the game will require the guitar controller, but if Nintendo doesn't allow it, Epicenter has a standard control scheme on tap. However, they didn't detail it.
The game is expected to be about five hours, but branching paths and the cooperative two-player mode where players can compete for high scores hope to make it replayable.
There will be rock renditions of public domain music, as well as some Rob Zombie music for certain parts. Neil Patrick Harris will voice the main character, and Felicia Day, best known for her role in "The Guild," will voice the love interest. Harris and Day previously worked together in the Joss Whedon internet series "Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog." The script was written the writer of The Witcher.
Published by Conspiracy Entertainment, Rock of the Dead is set for a late spring 2010 release and will retail for $30 or $40.
