Topic: What's Up With That Zombie Game?

[Webmalfunction]

Care for some more Nintendo Direct speculation?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/blog/30420

During the Nintendo Direct Pre-E3 showing yesterday, there was a Wii U zombie game used as the basis for the demonstration video. For the sake of investigation, I'll be analyzing the snippets of the game, piece by piece, to see if I can determine if we're looking at a real game or not.

The first thing I did was meticulously inspect the backgrounds of the game video (not focusing on the game itself) to see if I could extract anything. Long story short, I couldn't really find anything related to Nintendo or the game itself. The comic book poster behind the guy was too blurry, and everything else was seemingly non-related. That cheap action figure does have some hints of Captain Rainbow, though.

Next, I paused the video during segments of gameplay. First off, these graphics look a generation behind. If the game is going to be on Wii U, it sure as heck isn't ready right now.

It's also hard to tell if this is a first-person shooter or a rail shooter. For one, the guy is moving his controller around quite a bit, though some screen shots seriously look like the game is built for free control. The other thing of serious note is the above screenshot, where ZR (a new button for the GamePad) is shown on the screen, suggesting a quick time event. Either this game is a real tech demo, or Nintendo is just really good at paying attention to detail. Also, consider how this is flashed up on the screen for a second. If this game existed in no form whatsoever, why would the ZR flash on the screen?

Finally, you may have noticed a reference to antibody scanners, scanner updates, and other scanner talk that sounds directly out of a survivor horror game. If this isn't a real game or demo, I give Nintendo serious credit for putting that extra detail in.

Honestly, I feel like this game, at the very most, may show up as a tech demo, but its place in a conceptual video with most of the interesting action happening off-screen (along with the low-quality graphics) makes me feel like this thing will not show up at launch. I suppose we'll have to wait until more information comes out of Nintendo's press conference this Tuesday.

[Oblivion]

Um, I don't even think that was a real game. It was there simply to supply the god-awful story in the video.

[Crimm]

You're just mad you don't get video calls from old guys with sick skills.

[the_dan_x]

I know I am. I wrote down the screen name in anticipation of becoming his friend.

[Chiramii]

I know I am. I wrote down the screen name in anticipation of becoming his friend.

I'm with you on that one!

[oohhboy]

What's up with the tiny photos?

[Ceric]

I wouldn't be surprised if someone made up the script and asked Nintendo for something like this in an FMV.  Nintendo turns around and goes "Shoot we have some junior level people who need to play with the Wii U feature set.  Lets just make a little demo game he can actually play and use the features with."

[house3136]

 I think it’s interesting that Nintendo chose to show, what would be an M-rated title, during the video. Notice the overall game avatar during the chat is a pistol. Aside from the 2 seconds of Mario gameplay, I think this was intended to be very generic as to not allude to any actual games. This also exacerbates the ongoing awkwardness that RE: 6 still hasn’t been announced for Wii U.

[Bman87301]

I really doubt this is a real game either...

Especially if it's a FPS, why would they design the controls around the GamePad? Maybe I'm just over analyzing, but judging from the other demonstrations Nintendo has shown, they fully intend to continue to use the Remote in conjunction with the GamePad to create new methods of gameplay.  It's not Nintendo's style to cheap-out and take the traditional route, when a more original idea could be better suited. So it seems to me that if Nintendo were internally developing a FPS, they'd design it to use the Remote as the primary control with the GamePad being used in some sort of secondary capacity.

To me, the appearance of "ZR" on screen strongly suggests it's NOT a real game, because even they just portrayed it being played with the GamePad for the sake of the video, the ACTUAL game wouldn't be referencing "ZR" since it's a GamePad specific button.

[Tennindo]

chances are its a demo of a future game. If anything its looks Sega Related. House of the dead? I cant see Nintendo making a Zombie game.. but they did surprise me when they use a zombie game for a tech demo to show off their features. anything is possible

[shinyray01]

I know I am. I wrote down the screen name in anticipation of becoming his friend.

why didn't i think of this

[Tennindo]

Wasnt that Adam west?

[FreudianLemur]

The comic book poster behind the guy was too blurry

How can you not see that? It's Diabolik.

You should know about it, seeing as there was a Wii and DS game of it. Also, since you wrote this, it's been confirmed that Ubisoft's "Killer Freaks" has become a zombie survival horror game set in London. That's probably what this is.

[DEDwyer64]

If I were to guess what game it was from prior information, I would guess it would maybe be that ZombieU game Ubisoft just announced. But why would Nintendo show a Ubisoft game at their press conference. Just speculation but I'm sure we will hear more about it this week.