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Friday, July 6, 2012

First Look: Wii U - ZombiU Gameplay



There's not even a release date for the Wii U yet, but ZombiU by UBISOFT has already caught the attention of a lot of fans of the Zombie genre. Contrary to the Wii which was catered mostly as a family gaming console, the Nintendo has pulled all the stops with the Wii U and is coming out with games catered to older players this time around. One of these games is ZombiU, which is a reboot of Ubisoft's first commercially available game Zombi, which was released in 1986 when the company was established. While not much information on the game has been released, it is known that the game will take place in London, England which finds itself in the middle of a zombie outbreak. As you can see in the trailer the game makes full use of the Wii U Gamepad. The Wii U Gamepad has an array of uses in ZombiU, such as a scanner, the scope for your sniper rifle, to access CCTV cameras, to hack different things in the game, and even to check your inventory, all of this by selecting the function you need and then pointing it at the screen. GAMEPLAY SPOILER ALERT,  GAMEPLAY SPOILER ALERT... If you want to be surprised you may not want to read this next part, if you're ok with spoilers then carry on.
In ZombiU, you control on of the survivors of the zombie outbreak. However if at any point you die in the game you must start over as a new survivor and in Zombi U all it takes is one zombie bite to make you join the legion of the undead, as if this wasn't enough the character that dies keeps your inventory or as the game calls it "Bug-Out Bag." Your new character can attempt to retrieve the inventory from your now undead character though, so it is not a total loss. Multiplayer will be available and if you're playing online, your friends will be alerted to your characters death and they can also attempt to collect your inventory. ZombiU may not be enough reason to buy a Wii U however, as many people were disappointed with the Nintendo Wii, which started as a game that made full use of the motion controller and then stopped in preference of using it as a sideways controller for later games. The Wii U however has more titles in store that will apparently make full use of the Gamepad to prevent the same thing from happening to this system. Titles revealed so far that have multiple uses for the Gamepad are Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition and Assassin's Creed III. Drake's Reviews does have a complaint on this trailer though, while the gameplay looks amazing you can tell that the person playing it is nothing more than an animated character, if you look carefully at the hands you can tell they are not a real person's hands, we would've like to have seen an actual person playing it at least. As usual Drake's Reviews will be bringing you the latest news as they are available and hopefully we will get to see more exciting titles for the Wii U.

Drake's Reviews Score (Pre-Release) 8.5 out of 10

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