News: What the Fear

'Class3' Game Footage Shows the Slower Side of the Zombie Apocalypse

by Carl Lyon, Mon., Aug. 22, 2011 1:02 PM PDT
Class 3

We've heard virtually nothing of Class3, the proposed zombie MMO from developer Undead Labs, except that it's a zombie MMO.  Oh, and that it's for Xbox Live.  Hey, when I say "we've heard virtually nothing," I mean it!  However, the developer has given us a tiny taste of the game world in action.  Check out the first footage after the break.

The first bit of in-game footage (the developer calls it a "motion screenshot") may not have a lot of action going on (or the zombie apocalypse is not as awful as everyone makes it out to be), but it shows the beautiful, Cryengine 3 fueled graphics and a dynamic day/night cycle.  Bonus points for making the setting seem to be much more in line with Anytown, USA than a sprawling urban center.  As someone who was raised in a small New England town, this sort of setting is far freakier than a dead metropolis.

Class3 will be released on Xbox Live Arcade.

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