In the midst of reviewing so many Anti-Zombie Xbox games this news slipped past me for a brief time, but it’s worth mentioning as a *possible* glimmer of light in the current generation of console games. Summing up: Konami is publishing/co-developing a console shooter (PS3 and Xbox 360) called “Neverdead” which features an Undead, possibly Zombie protagonist as the main character:

Konami’s angle is that this action hero is, in fact, dead. Not dead in the stone-faced Chakan-the-Forever-Man way, but dead in the cartoonish manner where his hacked-off head asks those nearby if they’ve seen his right arm, and you, the player, are commanded to chuckle at this. Fortunately, this idea extends into the actual gameplay, to the point where our wisecracking corpse of a hero has to reassemble his body parts in order to avoid dying for good, presumably by the enemies throwing his head in a river or something.

Neverdead brings together some Konami designers, including Metal Gear Ac!d’s Shinta Nojiri, and the British developer Rebellion. Many remember Rebellion for making Alien vs. Predator, one of the few notable Atari Jaguar releases. They’ve created other games, but not much in the way of original titles. Neverdead is a departure for them and for Konami, which has made only minor concessions to the zombie wave so far.

Perhaps they’ve been resisting the ‘zombie wave’ so that they could present an alternative, and more equitable treatment of the Differently Animated! We live in hope here at the ZRC.

Tags: Videogames

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